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.
Read MoreThis would be the fifth India-US 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue, where Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will participate. Both sides will take stock of contemporary regional issues and exchange views about shared priorities on cooperation.
Lal Krishna Advani was born in Karachi in undivided India in 1927. He is regarded as the principal architect of the BJP's rise as a major national political party in the country in 80s.
Addressing the three-day Goa Maritime conclave, the Defence Minister said that countries should address common maritime priorities and avoid 'selfish interests'. He also warned that flouting international norms will lead to breakdown of civilised nations.
Madhya Pradesh polls: Rajnath Singh said that no one can deny the fact that 17-18 years ago Madhya Pradesh was known as 'Bimaru Rajya' and it is BJP and Shivraj Singh Chouhan's govt that has done the work of taking it out from 'Bimaru' state.
Rajnath Singh is on a two-day visit to Assam and Arunachal Pradesh to celebrate Dussehra with the jawans. He visited the forward posts at Tawang in Arunachal today and interacted with the jawans. He told them that the citizens of the country are proud of the Indian Army and the security forces.
India has been making rapid strides in the sporting universe and is galloping towards becoming a sporting powerhouse. It finished fourth on the medal tally in Hangzhou behind China, South Korea and Japan with a total of 107 medals.
Rajnath Singh will visit Italy and France on four-day tour with focus on industrial cooperation. The Defence Minister's visit will start on Monday.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh informed that the mortal remains of eight Army personnel, who went missing in flash floods in Sikkim, were recovered while the search operations for the remaining soldiers are underway.
Rajnath Singh said that India needs a stronger armed forces with modern equipment to become developed by 2047. He made the remarks after launching several digital initiatives of the Defence Accounts Department (DAD) during its 276th annual day celebrations at Delhi Cantonment.
The IAF is working with the Drone Federation of India to jointly host the Bharat Drone Shakti 2023 in recognition of the potential of domestic drone design and development.
Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh also formally inducted the C-295 transport aircraft into the Indian Air Force.
Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in a stern reply to Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury in Lok Sabha said that he has full courage to discuss the China issue in the Parliament.
As per the reports the government has approved the initiative to establish 100 new Sainik Schools from Class 6 onwards in a systematic manner in partnership.
The newly-built 500-metre Nechiphu tunnel is being termed strategically crucial for the Armed Forces as it will provide all-weather connectivity to the strategic Tawang region along the Line of Actual Control.
At a ceremony organised by the Border Roads Organisation at Devak Bridge on Bishnah-Kaulpur-Phulpur Road in Jammu & Kashmir, the Defence Minister will inaugurate 22 Roads, 63 Bridges, Nechiphu Tunnel in Arunachal Pradesh, two airfields in West Bengal.
G20 Summit: "The historic G20 Summit in New Delhi has successfully concluded. India’s Presidency under the visionary leadership of PM Narendra Modi has left an indelible mark on the world stage," Singh said in a post on X.
The highlight of the ceremony will be the inauguration of 422.9 metre Devak Bridge on Bishnah-Kaulpur-Phulpur Road in Jammu & Kashmir.
Rajasthan: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday flagged off BJP's ‘Parivartan Sankalp Yatra’ in Jaisalmer. He also took a potshot at the Congress party during a public event.
The 'Parivartan Yatra' will pass through 51 constituencies of the Jodhpur division, Nagaur and Ajmer, covering a distance of 2,574 km in 18 days.
According to the Defence Ministry, the proposals approved by the DAC included one on the procurement of 7.62x51 mm Light Machine Gun (LMG) and another on acquisition of weapons MH-60R helicopters of the Indian Navy..
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