INDIAN DEFENSE MINISTER RAJNATH SINGH VISIT AMARNATH WITH ARMY CHIEF|HEADLINES INDIA UPDATES
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Date: 2020-08-21

Rajnath Singh (born 10 July 1951) is an Indian politician serving as the Defence Minister of India. He is the former President of Bharatiya Janata Party. He has previously served as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and as a Cabinet Minister in the Vajpayee Government. He was the Home Minister in the First Modi Ministry. He has also served as the President of the BJP twice i.e 2005 to 2009 and 2013 to 2014. He is a veteran leader of the BJP who started his career as a RSS Swayamsevak.[1] He is an advocate of the party's Hindutva ideology.[2]

He has been Member of parliament, Lok Sabha for 2 times from Lucknow (Lok Sabha constituency) and also from Mirzapur (Lok Sabha constituency).[3] He was also active in State Politics and remained MLA from Haidergarh (assembly constituency) for 2 times being Chief minister.[4]

He was first assigned at a big position in the year 1991, when he was appointed as Minister of Education in Kalyan Singh ministry and he came in the controversies by introducing the Anti-Copying Act, 1992 which made copying an Non-bailable Offence.[5] He also introduced the moderanising the Vedic Mathematics and putting it in the Syllabus of Uttar Pradesh government.[4]

His politics at the Central level started when he was assigned at the position of Minister of Transportation at Union government in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ministry in the year 1996 for a small time period.[6] Then he was once more send to Uttar Pradesh in the year 2000.[citation needed] at that time he was appointed as the Chief minister of Uttar Pradesh from the year 2000-2002 and at that time he became 3rd Chief minister of Uttar Pradesh from Bharatiya Janata Party after Kalyan Singh and Ram Prakash Gupta.[7] At that time he was Member of Legislative Assembly from Haidergarh assembly in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh.[8][9] The biggest achievement by him as Chief minister was to innaugrating DND Flyway from Noida to New Delhi.[10]

Then from year 2003-2004, he served as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in the Third Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ministry.[11][12] He introduced many Schemes for the welfare of Farmer and Agriculturist. He also decreased the rates of Interests for loans to Farmer.[13] The biggest problem at that time was to stable the Indian economy and Agriculture sector of the Nation.[14] Later he resigned after Atal Bihari Vajpayee lost the 2004 Lok Sabha election to Indian National Congress.[15][16]

He was the Party President of BJP at the time when Narendra Modi was named as the Prime Minister candidate from National Democratic Alliance for 2014 Lok Sabha election[17][18] and after the historic win of the party by attaining 282 Seats in Lok Sabha, he was appointed as the Home Minister and remained as Home Minister from 2014-2019.[19] At that time he was Member of parliament from Ghaziabad (Lok Sabha constituency).[20]

Under him as Home Minister of India an app web portal Bharat Ke Veer was launched by Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar to help the families of Martyr's by financial means[21][22] and Singh himself put a ban over the Homosexuality stating that such an unnatural act cannot be supported, from the starting even before the BJP Government.[23] When this was sparkled again in the year 2015 then Finance minister of india, Arun Jaitley also oppose it with Singh over which Azam Khan called the Swayamsevaks of RSS as Homosexuals.[24] He also played an important role at the time of Doklam Controversy between soldiers of Indian Army and Chinese armed forces and helped Bhutan