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: Reflecting a change in stance, BJP President Rajnath Singh today said his party has no objection to Article 370 which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir if it helps in the development
Jammu: BJP today revoked the suspension of five MLAs who were suspended for allegedly cross voting in Legislative Council election in April 2011. The BJP high command revoked the suspension of Baldev Raj, Master Lal
Panaji: In an apparent reference to the media blitzkrieg around the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi supported decentralisation of power here today, while toeing his “vote for the country,
Panaji: Blaming the Congress for “making the country poor”, BJP president Rajnath Singh today said that if voted to power, his party would bring back the “golden era the country witnessed during the Atal Bihari
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will get a "clear majority" in the Lok Sabha election, party president Rajnath Singh said Monday."The UPA government has brought down the country's credibility in its 10 year
Gurgaon: Social activist Anna Hazare has written a letter to BJP chief Rajnath Singh, complaining that a leader of his party from Haryana was creating hurdles in the installation of his statue in Gurgaon. Hazare
Ranchi: BJP president Rajnath Singh Sunday compared the party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi with Lord Rama.“As Manthara in the Ramayana hatched a conspiracy to prevent Rama from becoming the king of Ayodhya, similarly the
Mumbai: BJP President Rajnath Singh today accused Manmohan Singh of protecting the corrupt elements in his government.Addressing a huge rally here, the BJP leader also held the Congress-led UPA government responsible for rising food prices."There
New Delhi: BJP president Rajnath Singh has made it clear that his party will oppose the Comunal Violence Bill both inside and outside parliament.Rajnath Singh further said that this bill wil create bitterness among people. “The
New Delhi: RSS today toed the line taken by BJP President Rajnath Singh in support of the Supreme Court judgement against homosexuality but maintained that the issue can be debated by the political parties."(Section) 377
New Delhi: Breaking its silence on the Supreme Court order banning homosexuality, BJP has said it favours the verdict and will not support any "un-natural act".While initially party leaders had refused to take a stand
New Delhi: BJP today organised a marathon in 565 places across the country to mark the death anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and spread the message of good governance and national integration.BJP president Rajnath Singh
Bangalore: Congress has offered unconditional support to Aam Admi Party as it has promised to give a “clean and non-corrupt government”, Union Home Minister Suhshilkumar Shinde said here today. “AAP wanted to come to power
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal has raised following 18 issues in his letters to Sonia Gandhi and Rajnath Singh:1. The VIP culture should be stopped in Delhi. No MLA, minister or Delhi
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal has written letters to the Congress President Sonia Gandhi and BJP president Rajnath Singh seeking their support for the Jan Lok Pal draft bill. This is what
New Delhi: Holding the “short-sighted political approach” of Congress responsible for the present stalemate on Telangana, BJP today charged the ruling party lacks the conviction to create the new state and is working purely for
New Delhi: Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee today said the public has already expressed “no-confidence” against the Centre and there was no need for bringing a motion against it in this regard.The West Bengal Chief Minister
New Delhi: BJP president Rajnath Singh has made it clear that Narendra Modi will be the party's PM candidate irrespective of how many seats the party gets in Lok Sabha polls. "It doesn't matter how
Lakhimpur Kheri (UP): BJP chief Rajnath Singh today came out in defence of Narendra Modi on the snooping row saying while the Gujarat CM himself has ordered a probe into the matter, a “depressed” Congress
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