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 Centre today said the situation in violence-hit Saharanpur is fully under control and it is keeping close eye on it. “Saharanpur situation is fully under control. We are keeping a close vigil,”
New Delhi: Amid protests by civil services aspirants against the new UPSC syllabus, the government today said the issue will be resolved within a week. “The UPSC issue will be resolved within a week. Discussions
New Delhi: The home ministry Monday denied the reported bugging at union Minister Nitin Gadkari's residence, and ruled out any probe.Asked about the bugging, union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said: "There is no contradiction, Gadkari
New Delhi: Home Minister Rajnath Singh Monday said the UPSC civil services exam issue will be resolved within a week."UPSC issue will be resolved within a week," he told reporters here.Rajnath Singh apprised Prime Minister
New Delhi: Virtually admitting that Chinese herdsmen had entered the Indian territory in Ladakh last week, Government today said the men withdrew from the position after a flag meeting between armies of the two countries.“The
Mumbai: The Shiv Sena today termed the “assault” on Marathi-speaking populace in Karnataka by the police there as “Kannada terrorism” and asked the Narendra Modi government to intervene.“In Mumbai, the Karnataka Bhawan and Karnataka Sangh
New Delhi: Home Minister Rajnath Singh today met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and briefed him about the situation in violence-hit Saharanpur and students' protests against UPSC syllabus and the steps being taken by the Centre
New Delhi: The 15th anniversary of the Kargil war victory was observed Saturday, with leaders paying homage to the martyrs, and Defence Minister Arun Jaitley promising a "huge" war memorial.President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Narendra
Lucknow: Two people were killed as violent clashes broke out Saturday in Saharanpur in western Uttar Pradesh over a land dispute. Two groups fought pitched battles and burnt several vehicles, as Home Minister Rajnath Singh
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today hosted a farewell dinner for outgoing Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh.Gen Singh's wife Bubble Singh, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley, Minister of State for Defence
New Delhi: Home Minister Rajnath Singh today asked Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav to ensure communal harmony in the state in the wake of violence in Saharanpur and offered all help to contain the
New Delhi: Home Minister Rajnath Singh Friday said the incident of a Shiv Sena MP trying to force-feed a fasting Muslim staffer of Maharashtra Sadan was "regrettable and unfortunate".Rajnath Singh said the Shiv Sena MPs
New Delhi: There is a need to promote values and culture through text books to bring about a "perceptional change" in society, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said Wednesday."There is a need to bring perceptional change
Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar tried to hold back his smile when a legislator called him a "parallel prime minister" in the Goa assembly Tuesday.Speaking during question hour on the first day of the
New Delhi: Twenty-seven Aam Aadmi Party MLAs led by Arvind Kejriwal today met Lt Governor Najeeb Jung and told him that delay in dissolving the Delhi Assembly was “encouraging horse trading”.“We met L-G and explained
New Delhi: Amid stepped up political activity in the city, newly-appointed Delhi BJP chief Satish Upadhyay today said all major cases of alleged corruption and financial bunglings during Congress rule, including in Commonwealth Games projects,
New Delhi: Prodded by the RSS, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) declared Sunday that it was ready for fresh assembly elections in Delhi.The BJP's new state president Satish Upadhyay made the announcement after a half
New Delhi: Delhi BJP president Satish Upadhyay today briefed senior party leader and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh about party MLAs' views on the current political situation in Delhi and is understood to have conveyed
New Delhi: Rubbishing AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal's allegation against BJP of indulging in horse-trading for government formation in Delhi, former BJP chief and Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said his party doesn't indulge in such
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal is reported to have threatened to quit if the central government did not intervene in the controversial issue of setting up of a separate committee in Haryana to
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