Rajnath Singh is the senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and has been the Defence Minister of India since 2019. Singh also served as the Union Home Minister in the Narendra Modi government from 2014 to 2019. Rajnath Singh was the president of the BJP twice from 2005 to 2009 and again from 2013 to 2014. He has been a Lok Sabha member from the Lucknow constituency of Uttar Pradesh for the last two terms. In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Singh won the Lucknow seat by defeating Congress candidate Rita Bahuguna Joshi with a margin of 2,72,749 votes. In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Singh retained the Lucknow constituency by defeating Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate Poonam Shatrughan Sinha with a margin of 3,47,302 votes. Rajnath Singh also represented the Ghaziabad parliamentary seat from 2009 to 2014. Singh was the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister from 2000 to 2002 and also won the Haidergarh Assembly constituency twice in 2001 (bypoll) and 2002. He was also a member of Rajya Sabha from 1994 to 2001 and again from 2002 to 2008. Singh also served as the Union Cabinet Minister for Agriculture (2003-2004) and Road Transport and Highways (1999-2000) in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government. Rajnath Singh is again contesting from the Lucknow constituency in the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections 2024.
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New Delhi: The government on Tuesday said it does not "endorse" any kind of statement which seeks to discriminate between the people of the country.Intervening during zero hour in the Lok Sabha, Home Minister Rajnath
New Delhi: To curb incidents of acid attacks on women, the government would soon make data available online on the sale of acids.Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh informed the Lok Sabha that the government has
Chandauli: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that any kind of anti-India activities will not be tolerated on the country's soil.He said this while addressing Kisan Mahapanchayat in his home district here, his
Chandauli(UP): Senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh today slammed Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for "misleading" peasants at the Kisan Maha rally and made an appeal to the community to not get misguided by rumours spread
Kanpur: Jammu and Kashmir's hardline separatist leader Masrat Alam will be sent to jail again, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Friday, adding that those charged with sedition will not be forgiven.Alam, who was placed
1. PM Modi to participate in wreath laying ceremony at Air India Memorial Site at TorontoPrime Minister Narendra Modi will today participate in wreath laying ceremony at Air India Memorial Site at Toronto before departing
Dehradun: Accusing former Uttarakhand governor Aziz Qureshi of misusing his office to commit irregularities in appointments, BJP today asked the Centre to institute an impartial probe into decisions taken during his tenure.Making the demand at
Jammu: Accusing BJP of giving a free hand to separatists to organise anti-India rallies, Congress today said the Prime Minister and the Union Home Minister must explain as to what was the BJP's policy on
New Delhi: The Union Law Ministry has informed the Centre that it cannot bring an anti-conversion law as the matter exclusively lies within state's jurisdiction.According to a report published in Hindustan Times, the law ministry
Patna: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday announced a monthly pension of Rs.5,000 for farmers aged 60 or above for their social and financial security."The Narendra Modi-led government has decided to give a monthly
Patna: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh would attend a party workers convention today to sound the bugle for Assembly elections to be held later this year."Our leaders
Patna: BJP president Amit Shah and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh would attend a party workers convention tomorrow to sound the bugle for Assembly elections to be held later this year.“Our leaders Amit Shah and
Patna: With Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and BJP President Amit Shah all set to address a programme on Ambedkar Jayanti tomorrow, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today mocked the party saying those who have no
New Delhi: Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said untouchability has been abolished to a large extent "but there is a lot to be done to remove it completely" from the country as not all
New Delhi: Government and BJP today distanced itself from Shiv Sena's controversial remarks for scrapping voting rights of Muslims, saying such suggestions are “unacceptable” and against the Constitution as there cannot be any discrimination on
New Delhi: Government has decided to confer gallantry awards on the security personnel who sacrificed their lives in the recent Naxal attacks in Chhattisgarh and said it would also extend benefits to their kin."We have
New Delhi: Top Ministers of the NDA government met in the absence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi here today and discussed major issues like the Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh and the strategy for the second
Ghaziabad: The Centre will take stringent action against the Naxalites who killed seven policemen in Sukma district in Chhattisgarh, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today.The Home minister told media persons that Chhattisgarh Chief Minister
Hyderabad: Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today sought a thorough probe into the reports of snooping on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's family while describing the episode as shocking.“Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose is the beloved son
Lucknow: Voicing concern over the release of top Lashkar leader Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said India wants talks with Pakistan but the release of the Mumbai attack mastermind is an "unfortunate
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