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: Congress leader Jagadambika Pal and stand up comedian Raju Srivastava Wednesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).Pal, formerly a Congress MP and the Uttar Pradesh Congress chief, had earlier resigned from the Lok
Ghaziabad: AAP candidate Shazia Ilmi says her party will do everything it can to end the "step-motherly" treatment of Ghaziabad, a sprawling Uttar Pradesh district bordering Delhi."Development (of Ghaziabad) will be our only election plank,"
Madurai: Maintaining that he has been “unfairly vilified” and suspended, DMK leader M K Alagiri today alleged “some forces” in the party were not allowing its chief and his father M Karunanidhi to discharge his
Muzaffarnagar: Scores of BJP workers and supporters of riot-accused MLA Sangit Som burnt effigy of party president Rajnath Singh here in protest against denial of Lok Sabha ticket to the legislator. The protesters, mostly belonging
New Delhi: A day after BJP handed him his maiden Lok Sabha ticket from Amritsar, a seat held by Navjot Singh Sidhu, senior party leader Arun Jaitley today sought to placate the cricketer-turned-politician saying he
Bhopal: Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's niece Karuna Shukla, who quit BJP and joined Congress recently, on Sunday said the era of veteran leaders like Vajpayee and L K Advani in the saffron party
New Delhi: The BJP's central election committee will meet here Thursday amid speculation that the party could take a decision on Lok Sabha seats for prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and party president Rajnath Singh.While
New Delhi: Rebel RJD leader Ram Kripal Yadav today met top BJP leaders in the national capital amid indications that he would cross over to saffron ranks ahead of Lok Sabha polls.Yadav, a former close
Indore: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today accused the UPA Government of not respecting the federal structure and discriminating against the BJP-ruled State in providing relief to the farmers affected by recent unseasonal
Indore: BJP president Rajnath Singh today claimed his party may win over 300 seats on its own in Lok Sabha elections in view of “surging” popularity of its PM nominee Narendra Modi.“When I first asked
New Delhi: As the row within BJP over selection of seats for Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh escalated, the party president today tried to steer clear of the issue, saying the Central Election Committee will
New Delhi: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) tied up with the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha elections and will support its candidate from Darjeeling."Gorkha Janamukthi Morcha (GJM) president Bimal Gurung has decided to support
Lucknow: Sitting MP from Lucknow and senior BJP leader Lalji Tandon Monday refuted that he had raised any red flag against fielding party national president Rajnath Singh from the state capital."This is far from truth.
New Delhi: Former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, who had to quit the BJP in the wake of corruption charges and rejoined recently, is among the 52 candidates finalised by the party today for
New Delhi: BJP president Rajnath Singh, now in the thick of Lok Sabha elections, has sought blessings from the Shankaracharya of Dwarka Swami Swaroopananda Saraswati. Swami Swaroopananda Saraswati had so far been perceived as a
Mumbai: BJP today said that party president Rajnath Singh had not apologised to Muslims for the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat, contrary to some media reports."The BJP president did not apologise. We want people from
New Delhi: BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will contest from Varanasi constituency in Uttar Pradesh for the Lok Sabha, top party sources said here today. Dr Murli Manohar Joshi, who is currently the party
New Delhi: Former Union Minister and Congress MP from Gurgaon, Rao Inderjit Singh who had hit headlines for demanding a probe into land deals of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra, today joined BJP.He
Jaipur: Citing various survey reports, BJP president Rajnath Singh today expressed confidence of getting a clear majority in coming Lok Sabha elections. “Whichever survey reports are there, it is clear from them that BJP is
New Delhi: BJP President Rajnath Singh today welcomed President Pranab Mukherjee's remarks on the need for a stable government at the Centre post the 2014 general elections and agreed with his views that populist anarchy
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