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10 JUL 1951 RAJNATH SINGH

Rajnath Singh

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Rajnath Singh
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Minister of Home Affairs
Assumed office
26 May 2014
Prime MinisterNarendra Modi
Preceded bySushilkumar Shinde
President of the Bharatiya Janata Party
In office
23 January 2013 – 8 July 2014
Preceded byNitin Gadkari
Succeeded byAmit Shah
In office
24 December 2005 – 24 December 2009
Preceded byL K Advani
Succeeded byNitin Gadkari
19th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
In office
28 October 2000 – 8 March 2002
GovernorSuraj Bhan
Vishnu Kant Shastri
Preceded byRam Prakash Gupta
Succeeded byMayawati
Member of Parliament
for Lucknow
Assumed office
16 May 2014
Preceded byLalji Tandon
Member of Parliament
for Ghaziabad
In office
16 May 2009 – 16 May 2014
Preceded byConstituency created
Succeeded byGen (Retd) V K Singh
Minister of Agriculture
In office
2003–2004
Prime MinisterAtal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded byAjit Singh
Succeeded bySharad Pawar
Personal details
Born10 July 1951 (age 65)
Bhabhaura, Uttar Pradesh,India
NationalityIndian
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
Spouse(s)Savitri Singh
ChildrenPankaj Singh
Neeraj Singh
Anamika Singh
MotherGujarati Devi
FatherRam Badan Singh
Alma materGorakhpur University
ReligionHinduism
WebsiteOfficial website
Rajnath Singh (born 10 July 1951) is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who currently serves as the Home Minister of India. He previously served as the Chief Minister of the state of Uttar Pradesh and as a Cabinet Minister in the Vajpayee Government. He has also served as the President of the BJP twice, 2005–2009 and 2013–2014. He began his career as a physics lecturer and used his long-term connections with the hindutva organisation, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to become involved with the Janata Party.

Early life[edit]

Singh was born in the small village of Bhabhaura in Chandauli district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in a Rajput family.[1] His father was Ram Badan Singh and his mother was Gujarati Devi.[2] He was born into a family of farmers and went on to secure a master's degree in physics, acquiring first division results from the Gorakhpur University.[2] Rajnath Singh had been associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh since 1964, at the age of 13 and remained connected with the organisation even during his employment as a physics lecturer in Mirzapur.[2] In 1974, he was appointed secretary for the Mirzapur unit of the Bharatiya Jan Sangh, predecessor ofBhartiya Janta Party.[2]

Political career[edit]

In 1975, aged 24, Singh was appointed District President of the Jana Sangh.[2] In 1977, he was elected Member of Legislative Assembly from the Mirzapur constituency.[2] He became the State President of the BJP youth wing in 1984, the National general secretary in 1986[2] and the National President in 1988. He was also elected into the Uttar Pradesh legislative council.[2]
In 1991, he became Education Minister in the first BJP government in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Major highlights of his tenure as Education Minister included Anti-Copying Act, 1992, which made copying a non-bailable offence,[3] rewriting history texts and incorporating vedic mathematics into the syllabus.[4] In April 1994, he was elected into the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of the Indian Parliament) and he became involved with the Advisory committee on Industry (1994–96), Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Agriculture, Business Advisory Committee, House Committee and the Committee on Human Resource Development.[2] On 25 March 1997, he became the President of the BJP's unit in Uttar Pradesh and in 1999 he became the Union Cabinet Minister for Surface Transport.[2]
In 2000, he became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and was twice elected as MLA from Haidergarh in 2001 and 2002.[3] He tried to rationalise the reservation structure in government jobs by introducing the most Backward Classes among the OBC and SC, so that the benefit of reservation can reach the lowest status of Society.[5]
In 2003, Singh was appointed as the Minister of Agriculture and subsequently for Food Processing in the NDA Government led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and was faced with the difficult task of maintaining one of the most volatile areas of India's economy.[6] During this period he initiated a few epoch-making projects including the Kisan Call Centre and Farm Income Insurance Scheme.[7] He brought down interest rates on Agriculture loans and also established Farmer Commission and initiated Farms Income Insurance Scheme.[5]
After the BJP lost power in the 2004 general elections, it was forced to sit in the Opposition. After the resignation of prominent figure Lal Krishna Advani, and the murder of strategist Pramod Mahajan, Singh sought to rebuild the party by focusing on the most basic Hindutva ideologies.[8] He announced his position of "no compromise" in relation to the building of a Ram Temple in Ayodhya at any cost[8] and commended the rule of Vajpayee as Prime Minister, pointing towards all the developments the National Democratic Alliance made for the ordinary people of India.[9] He also criticised the role of the English language in India, claiming that it caused erosion of cultural values.[10]
On 24 January 2013, following the resignation of Nitin Gadkari due to corruption charges, Singh was re-elected as the BJP's National President.[11]
He contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from Lucknow constituency and was subsequently elected as a Member of the Indian Parliament.[12]

Home Minister[edit]

He was appointed the Union Minister of Home Affairs in the Narendra Modi government and was sworn in on 26 May 2014.[13]
He triggered controversy amid the protests over the police action at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), on 14 Feb 2016, claiming that the “JNU incident” was supported by Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed.[14]
In May 2016, he claimed that infiltration from Pakistan declined by 52% in a period of two years.[15]
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Rajnath Singh is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party who currently serves as the Home Minister of India. Wikipedia
Born: July 10, 1951 (age 65), Chandauli district
Spouse: Savitri Singh (m. 1971)
Office: Minister of Home Affairs of India since 2014
Education: Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University
Party: Bharatiya Janata Party
Children: Pankaj Singh, Anamika Singh, Neeraj Singh
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