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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Jammu: Asserting that Pakistan is not ready to mend its ways, Union Minister of State Jitendra Singh on Saturday maintained that Centre was following zero-tolerance towards terrorism and said any decisions of AFSPA cannot be
Lucknow: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today exuded confidence of repeating BJP's Lok Sabha feat in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.The senior BJP leader also accused the opposition parties of indulging in “negative” propaganda against
Jammu:A policeman was among two persons killed and nine others were injured, including seven CRPF men, when a group of militants of a 'fidayeen' squad dressed in Army fatigues stormed a police station in Kathua
New Delhi: Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday spoke to Jammu and Kashmir Police chief following a militant attack on a police station in Jammu in which two policemen were killed, official sources here said.He
New Delhi/Bengaluru: The controversy surrounding the mysterious death of IAS officer D.K. Ravi took on a stronger political colour on Thursday with the BJP-led central government saying it was ready for a CBI probe if
Launching a scathing attack on Pakistan, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday if the neighbouring country stops supporting terrorists, the security situation in South Asia will improve significantly.Singh also said the failure of
Jaipur: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said that if Pakistan stops supporting terrorists, the security situation in South Asia will improve significantly.He said that the source of most terrorist activities in India lies across
New Delhi: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has written a letter to Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah urging him to recommend CBI probe into the mysterious death of IAS office DK Ravi.Home Minister Rajnath Singh has also
Amritsar: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will visit Wagah-Attari joint retreat ceremony area in Punjab later this week to launch a public infrastructure work. Singh, on March 22, will lay the foundation stone for erecting
New Delhi: Union Law Minister Sadananda Gowda along with a delegation of BJP MPs today met Home Minister Rajnath Singh and demanded a CBI probe into the death of IAS officer D K Ravi Kumar
New Delhi: Four months ago, through 'Operation Smile' Ghaziabad Police recovered 227 missing children within 30 days and now Home Minister Rajnath Singh has decided to ask all states to emulate this campaign.At least eight
Tokyo: Friendship between India and Japan has a long history rooted in spiritual affinity and strong cultural and religious ties, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today.Inaugurating an exhibition on Indian Buddhist Art at the National
New Delhi: Three of five top Central ministers including Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be out of the country this week. This will be the first time when Modi and his top two ministers will
Washington: British-based filmmaker Leslee Udwin says the Indian government should hang its head in shame for banning her documentary on the December 16, 2012 fatal gang-rape of a 23-year-old Delhi woman.India banned the BBC documentary
Dimapur: In a fresh twist to the public lynching of a 36-year-old man in Dimapur last week, the Nagaland government on Wednesday said that no rape had taken place in the first place. A mob
New Delhi/Jammu: BJP today warned PDP, its ally in the newly-formed government in Jammu and Kashmir that any further unilateral actions such as release of separatists or militants will not be tolerated and threw broad
New Delhi: In the wake of the controversy over the release of separtist leader Masarat Alam, home minister Rajnath Singh said on Tuesday the Centre's priority is national security and not the government in Jammu
New Delhi: Under attack over release of separatist Masarat Alam in Jammu and Kashmir, government today admitted to “ideological differences” between BJP and PDP and said it is ready to make any “sacrifice” for national
New Delhi: The Union home ministry has sought a report from Jammu & Kashmir government on circumstances leading to release from jail of hardline separatist leader Masarat Alam, who has over 15 cases pending against
Gurgaon: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has been admitted to a private hospital here following a heart problem, a senior doctor said Saturday.Rajnath Singh was brought at Medicity Medanta hospital around 9.15 a.m. Saturday and
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