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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Aizawl: BJP president Rajnath Singh today slammed the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre as well as the Congress governments in both Assam and Mizoram for their failure to solve the boundary disputes between the
Raipur: Trashing allegations of illegal snooping against Narendra Modi, BJP today ruled out Congress demand for a rethink on its Prime Ministerial candidate and claimed that the ruling party's “dirty tricks wing” was behind the
Morena (MP): BJP President Rajnath Singh blamed the Congress-led UPA government here today for failing to control rising inflation and claimed that during NDA rule, inflation was unable to raise its head for six years
Patna: Bihar Police today trashed BJP chief Rajnath Singh's claim that its officers had requested party leaders to scrap the October 27 ‘Hunkar Rally' after the serial blasts in and around Gandhi Maidan venue.“We deny
New Delhi: BJP President Rajnath Singh today disclosed that the Patna police had asked him and Narendra Modi to call off the Gandhi Maidan rally on October 27 soon after the serial blasts, but they
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh Monday said he believed the serial blasts in Patna were an act of terror."The kind of incident that happened in Patna, I believe it is due
New Delhi: Upset over not being projected as BJP's chief ministerial candidate for the Delhi Assembly polls, Vijay Goel today staked his claim for the position before the party's top leadership and indicated his opposition
Lucknow: BJP president Rajnath Singh Monday visited Malikpura village in Muzaffarnagar and met the bereaved family of Gaurav and Sachin - whose deaths August 27 had triggered a wave of communal violence that left 63
New Delhi: YSR Congress party's honorary president Y.S. Vijayamma Wednesday met BJP president Rajnath Singh and urged him to keep Andhra Pradesh united in the wake of the UPA's decision to bifurcate it to create
Mumbai: BJP president Rajnath Singh today made it clear that terror and talks cannot go together as far as India and pakistan relations are concerned.Rajnath hinted that the relations between India and Pakistan appeared to
New Delhi: Shortly after the union cabinet Wednesday decided to withdraw the controversial ordinance and the bill to protect convicted lawmakers, BJP president Rajnath Singh said it was "better late than never" for the ruling
Kolkata: Hitting back at Sonia Gandhi, BJP president Rajnath Singh today said if she has any concern for Prime Minister's respect, she should ask Rahul Gandhi to resign as Congress vice-president or seek apology for
Kolkata: Saying that the country was passing through a deep economic crisis for the first time since Independence, BJP president Rajnath Singh today said that the country needed a ‘realistic' prime minister and not an
Kolkata: Criticising Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for calling a cabinet-approved ordinance "complete nonsense" which should be "torn up and thrown away", BJP president Rajnath Singh Monday said the remarks would spread anarchy.Describing Gandhi's outburst
New Delhi: BJP president Rajnath Singh Sunday replaced Narendra Modi as the chief of the campaign committee for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls following elevation of the Gujarat chief minister as prime ministerial candidate.The decision
Beed: BJP president Rajnath Singh will walk five kms as part of a ‘padyatra' (march) organised by the party to highlight the plight of farmers, specially those producing sugarcane, cotton and soyabean. Announcing this at
New Delhi: BJP's prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi and sulking senior BJP leader LK Advani shared the same platform at the BJP's Bhopal rally on Wednesday. They met and exchanged greetings but the feeling of
Rampur (UP): Defending UP government's decision to not permit BJP chief Rajnath Singh to visit riot-hit Muzaffarnagar, senior SP leader Mohammed Azam Khan today said that it was done for the “peace and tranquillity” in
Rampur : Defending UP government's decision to not permit BJP chief Rajnath Singh to visit riot-hit Muzaffranagar, senior SP leader Mohammed Azam Khan today said that it was done for the “peace and tranquillity” in
New Delhi: BJP President Rajnath Singh today came out in support of former Army chief Gen V K Singh, who is under attack over the activities of a secret spy unit set up by him,
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