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, May 28: The BJP parliamentary board met here Monday and discussed the fallout of the Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh, said party sources.Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Rajnath Singh suggested a court-monitored Special Investigation
New Delhi, May 20: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh Monday defended the decision to hand over charge of party affairs in Uttar Pradesh to Narendra Modi's close aide Amit Shah but stressed that
New Delhi, May 11: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should also go following the resignation of two cabinet ministers, BJP president Rajnath Singh said Saturday and announced a "jail bharo (filling the jails)" agitation May 27-June
New Delhi, Apr 29: BJP President Rajnath Singh today demanded cancellation of External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid's May 9 visit to China till it withdraws its army personnel forces from Depsang Valley in Ladakh where
New Delhi, April 17: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh Wednesday said his party was a secular party in which no communal person could survive and asserted that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi could
New Delhi, April 17: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) does not want any ally to leave the NDA, party president Rajnath Singh said Wednesday as speculation mounts over the future of its ties with the
New Delhi, April 17: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will campaign across the country during elections, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Rajnath Singh said Tuesday."Modi will campaign at all places across the country," Singh told
New Delhi, April 16: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh Tuesday told party leaders from Uttar Pradesh to "get aggressive" and reach out to people so as to win the most seats in the
New Delhi, Apr 16: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will campaign throughout the country, including Karnataka where assembly polls will be held next month, BJP President Rajnath Singh said here today."He will campaign at all
New Delhi, Apr 13 : Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today met BJP chief Rajnath Singh at his residence where the two leaders were understood to have held consultations on NDA's strategy ahead of Lok
New Delhi, April 13: With the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) national meeting expected to dwell on the issue of prime ministerial candidate of the NDA, BJP president Rajnath Singh Saturday said any issues between the two
New Delhi, April 12: BJP president Rajnath Singh Friday spoke to party MP Navjot Singh Sidhu following reports of his feeling "suffocated" in the system and assured that his grievances will be looked into.The cricketer-turned-politician,
Raipur, Apr 12: BJP president Rajnath Singh Thursday branded Congress as “the biggest communal party” in the country and accused it of raking up issues of Hindus, Muslims and Christians for the sake of votes.“The
New Delhi, April 9: The BJP was not in favour of toppling a stable (UPA) government but it could go due to its own internal contradictions, party president Rajnath Singh said Tuesday."The BJP doesn't want
New Delhi, Apr 8: Jagadish Shettar will be the BJP's chief ministerial candidate in the Karnataka Assembly polls, Rajnath Singh said today, even as he downplayed the issue of corruption that has plagued the party-led
New Delhi, Apr 8: A private jet carrying BJP President Rajnath Singh and senior leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley made an emergency landing today at Delhi airport after it developed problems in its auto-pilot
New Delhi, April 6: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh Saturday avoided a direct reply on whether Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi would be the party's prime ministerial candidate in the 2014 Lok Sabha
New Delhi, April 5: BJP president Rajnath Singh today said that Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi is "presently India's most popular leader and there are no two opinions about it."Replying to questions in Rajat Sharma's
New Delhi, Apr 1: Terming the new team announced by BJP President Rajnath Singh as "balanced" representing various sections and regions of the country, party leaders on Sunday said it will lead to BJP's victory
Bangalore, March 31: BJP president Rajnath Singh and senior leaders L. K. Advani, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley will kick off the ruling party's campaign for the May 5 Karnataka assembly poll at a rally
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