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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Lucknow: Terming as "condemnable" any attempt to create hatred on the basis of caste, sect and religion, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said taking everyone along is the basic character of the country."Any attempt
Jammu: Congress today accused Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed of making a 'U Turn' on the issue of the creation of a "Composite Township" for displaced Kashmiri Pandit community in the Kashmir
Satyam case: Ramalinga Raju, nine others get seven-year jailA special CBI court on Thursday sentenced B. Ramalinga Raju, his two brothers and seven others to seven years in prison in the multi-crore-rupee Satyam case, India's
New Delhi: Home Minister Rajnath Singh today got stuck in a lift and later had to climb a stool to scale the wall, sending his security officials into a tizzy for some moments.The incident happened
New Delhi: Different voices on settlement of Kashmiri migrants emerged within PDP-BJP alliance with Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today hinting that there was no going back on the plans for separate settlement for the
New Delhi: Different voices on settlement of Kashmiri migrants emerged within PDP-BJP alliance with Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today hinting that there was no going back on the plans for separate settlement for the
New Delhi: The Home Ministry on Wednesday sought a report from the Telangana government on the killing of five alleged terror operatives, who were gunned down by police while they were trying to escape from
Jammu: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today expressed his opposition to state and central governments' plans for building “composite townships” for Kashmiri Pandits saying no one will support “ghettoisation” in segregated and
Lucknow: A relative of Home Minister Rajnath Singh was shot dead in a Varanasi district village, police said on Wednesday.According to information available, Arvind Singh, a petrol pump owner, was returning home after dropping his
New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir government will acquire and provide land at the earliest for composite townships for displaced Kashmiri pandit migrants in the Valley, Chief Minister Mufti Mohamamd Sayeed today told Union Home Minister
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today assured Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed that Centre will extend full support to funding of flood-affected people in the state and restoration of public infrastructure.The
New Delhi: Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday asked Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed to provide land for composite townships for Kashmiri Pandits in the state, an official release said.Sayeed, who had
New Delhi: Lal Krishna Advani, the 87-year-old patriarch of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is not speaking on any party forums these days.First, he turned down the party president Amit Shah's request to speak at the
Bengaluru: A day before BJP's two-day national executive meet, Land Bill became the center of discussion on Thursday while the party geared up for its first meeting of the office-bearers.The party has plans to make
Bengaluru: Karnataka Unit of Youth Congress is protesting against the Modi government's failure to retrieve black money by mocking the ruling party as Bharatiya ‘Jumla' Party and drawing cheques in its name for Rs 15
Kolkata: A day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee questioned the motive behind it, union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday said his tour of border enclaves in the state was not a political
PM to visit RSP todayRourkela: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate to the nation the modernised and expanded units of Rourkela Steel Plant today.Prez to embark on 2-day visit to West Bengal todayNew Delhi: President
Kolkata: BJP today rejected West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's charge that the state government had not been consulted by the Centre about Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh's visit to Teen Bigha, and insisted that
Kolkata: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh's visit to Bangladeshi enclave on Indo-Bangladesh border has not not gone down well with the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. In a series of tweets, Mamata targeted the
Teen Bigha (West Bengal): Government today appealed to the opposition to support the land acquisition bill and help in its passage in Parliament while amendments in the interest of farmers could be taken up later.“Let
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