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, Aug 9: BJP President Rajnath Singh yesterday said the party has not taken any decision on projecting a chief ministerial candidate for the forthcoming Delhi Assembly elections or zeroed in on any name
New Delhi: The normally calm BJP president Rajnath Singh tries to stay away from controversial statements unlike his predecessor but is always tough whenever he issues a statement. Rajnath Singh has taken the lead of
New Delhi, Aug 4: BJP president Rajnath Singh Saturday took a dig at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over Congress president Sonia Gandhi writing to him to ensure fair treatment to suspended IAS officer Durga Shakti
New Delhi, Jul 31: BJP President Rajnath Singh today accused the UPA government of delaying formation of Telangana and favoured setting up of a new States Reorganisation Commission to look into demands for carving out
New Delhi, Jul 28: Congress General Secretary Shakeel Ahmed today sought to ridicule BJP President Rajnath Singh over the issue of a US visa for Narendra Modi."I'm in Canada, near USA. Rajnath Singhji should have
New York, Jul 26: BJP President Rajnath Singh today challenged Congress to declare its prime ministerial candidate before losing sleep over the nominee of his party.”Will the Congress dare announce who will be the prime
New Delhi, Jul 26: The BJP president Rajnath Singh, who is presently on a visit to US, has made it very clear that his party has already arrived at a consensus over PM candidate.Talking to
Washington, Jul 25: Asserting that there is "no race" for prime ministership in his party, BJP president Rajnath Singh has said that the decision in this regard would be taken by the central parliamentary board
Washington, Jul 25: BJP will be open to a post-poll alliance if it is not able to reach the majority mark in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and there will be no dearth of coalition
Washington, July 24: Suggesting that in making Pakistan a partner in its war on terror in Afghanistan, the US had lost its focus, Bharatiya Janata Party wants US to keep India in the picture on
Washington, Jul 24: BJP President Rajnath Singh has pledged to build a replica of Bamiyan Buddha at Kushi Nagar in Uttar Pradesh where Gautam Buddha attained Parinirvana after his death. Singh, who is on a
Washington, Jul 23: The BJP, if voted to power, will create an atmosphere of “mutual goodwill and trust” with the US, party president Rajnath Singh said here, asking America to look at India as a
New York, July 21: BJP, which had so far maintained that it was not unduly bothered about denial of American visa to Narendra Modi, today said it will appeal to the US Administration to lift
New York, Jul 22: Ruling himself out of the prime ministerial race, BJP President Rajnath Singh yesterday virtually anointed Narendra Modi as its man to the top job if the party comes to power after
New Delhi, Jul 20: BJP president Rajnath Singh has lashed out at widespread "Anglicisation" of today's young generation describing it as a dangerous trend.Singh said Anglicisation has caused great loss to India's religion and culture.
New Delhi, Jul 19: Taking on BJP President Rajnath Singh for his remark that the spread of English had hurt Indian culture, Congress on Friday said the opposition party had itself "outsourced" its vision document
Patna, July 9: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has relinquished his moral authority to continue in office after steering the state back into the days of "Lalu Raj", BJP today said."An anarchy-like situation has been
New Delhi, July 8: The BJP parliamentary board Monday said it will force the Congress to fight the Lok Sabha elections on the issues of "good governance and development", and authorised Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra
Kolkata, July 7: BJP president Rajnath Singh yesterday said the party will soon come out with a "vision document" prior to the Lok Sabha polls, aiming at making India a super economic power."BJP will project
Kolkata, July 7: BJP president Rajnath Singh yesterday said the party will soon come out with a "vision document" prior to the Lok Sabha polls, aiming at making India a super economic power."BJP will project
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