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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Nagpur/New Delhi, July 7: BJP president Rajnath Singh Saturday defended party general secretary Amit Shah who has pitched for a Ram temple in Ayodhya, saying he had only expressed his wish."What I got to know
Nagpur, July 6: Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh Saturday said that his party would not oppose the the National Food Security Bill in parliament but would seek amendments to it.Speaking to media persons after
Guwahati, Jul 4: Critical of the hurried clearance of the Food Security ordinance, BJP president Rajnath Singh on Thursday said the UPA government was just doing a "political gimmick in a hurry" before the 2014
Guwahati, July 4: India heading towards the situation it faced in 1991 when it had to mortgage gold to the IMF for seeking a loan, said Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh, who criticised
Lucknow, June 26: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh flagged off a consignment of relief material, collected by the party's state unit for Uttarakhand flood victims, here todayRajnath Singh, who arrived on a two-day
Lucknow, June 26: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh will flag off a consignment of relief material, collected by the party's state unit for Uttarakhand flood victims, here Wednesday, BJP leaders said.Rajnath Singh, who
New Delhi, June 26: The BJP Tuesday accused the central government of failing to check terrorism and said morale of terrorists was going up.Referring to Monday's militant attack in Srinagar in which eight soldiers were
Patna, June 24: BJP president Rajnath Singh Sunday cautioned Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his Janata Dal-United (JD-U) against the Congress."Congress se bachkar rahiyega (Beware of Congress)," Rajnath Singh warned Nitish Kumar without naming
New Delhi, Jun 21: BJP today expressed concern over the devastation caused by the floods in Uttarakhand with party president Rajnath Singh asking workers to donate funds for relief to the people affected by the
Mumbai, June 19: BJP President Rajnath Singh has expressed confidence that his party's alliance with its oldest partner Shiv Sena would continue. Singh expressed these sentiments during a meeting with Sena president Uddhav Thackeray at
New Delhi, June 11: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Rajnath Singh Tuesday rejected reports that the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) is responsible for veteran leader L.K. Advani's resignation from his party posts."I want to clarify
New Delhi, Jun 10: BJP president Rajnath Singh today tweeted to say that he has rejected senior leader L K Advani's resignations from all three key party forums - Parliamentary Board, Election Committee and National
New Delhi, Jun 10: A day after the BJP appointed Narendra Modi to lead it in the next Lok Sabha election, the veteran L.K. Advani Monday resigned from all major party posts after accusing most
Panaji, Jun 9 : Narendra Modi today appeared to take a dig at BJP veteran L K Advani and other leaders who stayed away from the National Executive, as he praised party chief Rajnath Singh
Panaji/New Delhi, Jun 9: The RSS top brass has virtually ordered BJP president Rajnath Singh to announce Narendra Modi as the chairman of the party election campaign committee, with RSS pointperson Suresh Soni conveying the
Bhopal, Jun 8: BJP vice-president Uma Bharti today wrote a letter to party president Rajnath Singh and said she would support all decision take by the party at the Goa meet. In her letter, Uma
Panaji, June 8: Amid reports of a rift within the BJP, especially after L.K. Advani's decision to skip the national executive meeting, party president Rajnath Singh said the conclave would end on a positive note
New Delhi, June 5: Narendra Modi, riding a sweeping victory in the Gujarat bye-elections, today met BJP President Rajnath Singh amid indications that he may be made the head of the party's campaign committee for
Hyderabad, June 3: With senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani's comments on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi sparking a controversy, party president Rajnath Singh Monday claimed there had been a misinterpretation."I think Mr.
New Delhi, May 30: There is "no question mark" on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's popularity and the party will "soon" decide its prime ministerial candidate, BJP president Rajnath Singh has said."The decision on the
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