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 Narendra Modi-led government is performing "very well" and most of the people in the country believe this, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Tuesday."Eighty per cent people in the country believes that
New Delhi: The Congress Tuesday accused the government of politicizing the educational system in the country and of trying to alter the federal system of governance."In schools, a different kind of history is being taught,"
New Delhi: Around 50 members of the Congress' youth wing NSUI staged a protest outside Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh's residence Tuesday demanding that he fulfil the BJP's poll promise of bringing back black money
Chandigarh: Buoyed by its performance in the Lok Sabha polls, senior BJP leader and Union Minister Rajnath Singh Sunday asked party workers in Haryana to make an all-out effort to realise ‘Mission 60-plus' in the
New Delhi: No dialogue is possible unless "Pakistan stops terrorism and violence", said Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh Monday.He denied media reports that he will be meeting his Pakistani counterpart on the sidelines of the
Chandigarh: After slashing petrol prices by up to Rs 2.50 a litre, the Government is working hard to deliver on its Lok Sabha poll promises and its eyes are now on diesel price reduction, Home
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today strongly refuted reports of Prime Minister Narendra Modi scolding his son for his alleged misconduct.According to some reports, Rajnath Singh's son Pankaj Singh was scolded by PM
Kolkata: Several victims of human rights violations in West Bengal who were attacked for raising their voices against the ruling Trinamool Congress have decided to approach union Home Minister Rajnath Singh.The likes of Jadavpur University
New Delhi: In the wake of continuous firing from across the Line of Control and Intelligence Bureau, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday reviewed the situation along the border with Pakistan and directed BSF to
New Delhi: Kerala Governor Shiela Dikshit may not resign immediately, according to sources. There were speculations of Sheila resigning today as Kerala governor after she met Home Minister Rajnath Singh today. Earlier, high level sources
New Delhi: Amidst reports that she may be shunted out of Kerala, Governor Sheila Dikshit today met Home Minister Rajnath Singh.She will also meet President Pranab Mukherjee in the evening, fuelling speculation that she may
Jammu: India will give a "befitting reply" to the repeated ceasefire violations in Jammu and Kashmir by Pakistan, BJP president Amit Shah said Monday."Home Minister Rajnath Singh has clearly said that if Pakistan resorts to
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh Monday condoled the loss of lives in a stampede at a Madhya Pradesh temple."Deeply saddened to know about 10 pilgrims death in a stampede at a temple in
Vrindavan: The BJP Sunday sharply attacked Uttar Pradesh's ruling Samajwadi Party on law and order including crimes against women, "partisan policy of appeasement" and "extremely grim state" of governance as it asserted it would come
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today charged state BJP of taking recourse to falsehood by making “weird statement that the state government did not give the go-ahead to the Union Home Minister to visit
New Delhi: Home Minister Rajnath Singh will visit Gorakhpur tomorrow to review the flood situation in Uttar Pradesh.Singh will make an aerial survey of the flood-hit districts of Balrampur, Bahraich, Gonda, Siddharth Nagar and Basti,
New Delhi: Home Minister Rajnath Singh today dispelled apprehensions that the central government was trying to encroach upon the powers of Telangana government in matters of law and order, saying it was only implementing the
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today accused Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh of failing to provide security along the state's border with Nagaland and accused the Centre of not taking the recent violence thereseriously.Addressing
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh was Thursday discharged from a hospital here as all his test results were normal.The minister was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here Wednesday
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will soon be discharged from a hospital where he was admitted after he complained of pain in his abdomen, an official said on Thursday."It was a routine admission
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