title: Ministry of Home Affairs (India)
Om Prakash Singh
Pankaj Singh (politician)
Radhe Shyam Gupta
Ganga Bhakt Singh
Union Council of Ministers
Rajnath Singh
World Cultural Festival
Anti-Copying Act, 1992
Venkaiah Naidu
sentences: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) or Home Ministry is a ministry of the Government of India, serving as the Indian State Department.
 An interior ministry, it is mainly responsible for the maintenance of internal security and domestic policy.
 The Home Ministry is headed by Union Minister of Home Affairs.
 Shri Rajnath Singh is the present Minister of Home Affairs.
Om Prakash Singh is the leader of Bharatiy Janta Party (B.J.P.) legislature party in Uttar Pradesh(UP) in India.
 He is a senior leader of the party and has earlier held cabinet minister positions in ministries led by Rajnath Singh, Kalyan Singh and Ram Prakash Gupta.
 He is MLA from Chunar Mirzapur district.
 He is from Magaraha, a small village of Chunar.
Pankaj Singh (born 12 December 1978) is an Indian politician who is currently working as General Secretary-BJP, Uttar Pradesh.
 He is the elder son of Home minister Rajnath Singh.
 Pankaj Singh has been active in politics since 2002.
 He is a politician in Uttar Pradesh.
 of Bharatiya Janata Party, Uttar Pradesh.
Presently he is MLA of BJP from Noida Legislative assembly seat.
 On March 11, he won the Noida constituency in the 2017 State Assembly Elections.
Radhe Shyam Gupta is an Indian politician from the Bhartiya Janata Party.
 He represented Fatehpur assembly constituency of Uttar Pradesh as Member of Legislative Assembly for five times.
 In 1997, Shri Gupta served as Institutional Finance Minister of state Uttar Pradesh in Kalyan Singh's cabinet.
 He assigned for Ministry of Law and Justice in Rajnath Singh's government in 2002.
 He is become BJP Vice President of state Uttar Pradesh in 2013.
Ganga Bhakt Singh (1922–2010) was a senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party from Uttar Pradesh, India, who had connections to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
 He served as a cabinet minister twice in the Government of Uttar Pradesh in 1967 and 1991 and as the Deputy-Chairman of the State Planning Commission between 1999-2002 under the Chief Minister Rajnath Singh.
 He was a member of the Sixth Lok Sabha from Shahabad Lok Sabha constituency as well as being a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly for four terms.
The Union Council of Ministers exercises executive authority in the Republic of India.
 It consists of senior ministers, called "Cabinet Ministers", junior ministers, called "Ministers of State" and deputy ministers.
Rajnath Ram Badan Singh (born 10 July 1951) is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who currently serves as the Home Minister.
 He previously served as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and as a Cabinet Minister in the Vajpayee Government.
 He has also served as the President of the BJP twice, 2005 to 2009 and 2013 to 2014.
 He began his career as a physics lecturer and used his long-term association with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to become involved with the Janata Party.
World Cultural Festival (WCF) was held on the Yamuna floodplains in New Delhi from 11 March 2016 to 13 March 2016.
 It was organised by Ravi Shankar to celebrate the Art of Living foundation’s 35 years in service.
 Various political leaders including Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Devendra Fadnavis, Raman Singh and Manish Sisodia attended the event on 12 March 2016.
 The last day of the cultural extravaganza was attended by many high-profile BJP leaders including Arun Jaitley, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Venkaiah Naidu, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
 The National Green Tribunal (NGT) allowed the Art of Living of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to hold the festival after paying a compensation of () .
 Initially, around 1,700 officials were deployed for traffic management for the World Cultural Festival and around 300 were on standby for the other events to be held during the same time.
Anti-Copying Act, 1992 was law enacted in 1992 by the Government of Uttar Pradesh headed by Kalyan Singh of Bharatiya Janata Party.
Rajnath Singh the Education Minister in the Kalyan Singh government is credited with the idea.
 The law aimed to stop practice of mass copying in school and university examination in the state.
 The Act made use of unfair means in examinations a cognisable offence.
 The SP and BSP government headed by Mulayam Singh Yadav which came to power in 1993 repealed it.
Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu (born 1 July 1949) is an Indian politician and the current Vice-President of India, in office since 11 August 2017.
 Previously, Naidu served as the Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Urban Development and Information and Broadcasting in the Modi Cabinet.
 A prominent leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, he also served as its national president from 2002 to 2004.
 Earlier, he was the Union Cabinet Minister for Rural Development in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.

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 The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) or Home Ministry is a ministry of the Government of India, serving as the Indian State Department.
 An interior ministry, it is mainly responsible for the maintenance of internal security and domestic policy.
 The Home Ministry is headed by Union Minister of Home Affairs.
 Shri Rajnath Singh is the present Minister of Home Affairs. 

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 Om Prakash Singh is the leader of Bharatiy Janta Party (B.J.P.) legislature party in Uttar Pradesh(UP) in India.
 He is a senior leader of the party and has earlier held cabinet minister positions in ministries led by Rajnath Singh, Kalyan Singh and Ram Prakash Gupta.
 He is MLA from Chunar Mirzapur district.
 He is from Magaraha, a small village of Chunar. 

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 Pankaj Singh (born 12 December 1978) is an Indian politician who is currently working as General Secretary-BJP, Uttar Pradesh.
 He is the elder son of Home minister Rajnath Singh.
 Pankaj Singh has been active in politics since 2002.
 He is a politician in Uttar Pradesh.
 of Bharatiya Janata Party, Uttar Pradesh.
Presently he is MLA of BJP from Noida Legislative assembly seat.
 On March 11, he won the Noida constituency in the 2017 State Assembly Elections. 

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 Radhe Shyam Gupta is an Indian politician from the Bhartiya Janata Party.
 He represented Fatehpur assembly constituency of Uttar Pradesh as Member of Legislative Assembly for five times.
 In 1997, Shri Gupta served as Institutional Finance Minister of state Uttar Pradesh in Kalyan Singh's cabinet.
 He assigned for Ministry of Law and Justice in Rajnath Singh's government in 2002.
 He is become BJP Vice President of state Uttar Pradesh in 2013. 

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 Ganga Bhakt Singh (1922–2010) was a senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party from Uttar Pradesh, India, who had connections to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
 He served as a cabinet minister twice in the Government of Uttar Pradesh in 1967 and 1991 and as the Deputy-Chairman of the State Planning Commission between 1999-2002 under the Chief Minister Rajnath Singh.
 He was a member of the Sixth Lok Sabha from Shahabad Lok Sabha constituency as well as being a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly for four terms. 

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 The Union Council of Ministers exercises executive authority in the Republic of India.
 It consists of senior ministers, called "Cabinet Ministers", junior ministers, called "Ministers of State" and deputy ministers. 

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 Rajnath Ram Badan Singh (born 10 July 1951) is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who currently serves as the Home Minister.
 He previously served as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and as a Cabinet Minister in the Vajpayee Government.
 He has also served as the President of the BJP twice, 2005 to 2009 and 2013 to 2014.
 He began his career as a physics lecturer and used his long-term association with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to become involved with the Janata Party. 

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 Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu (born 1 July 1949) is an Indian politician and the current Vice-President of India, in office since 11 August 2017.
 Previously, Naidu served as the Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Urban Development and Information and Broadcasting in the Modi Cabinet.
 A prominent leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, he also served as its national president from 2002 to 2004.
 Earlier, he was the Union Cabinet Minister for Rural Development in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. 

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