Rajnath Singh
Born on 10 July, 1951, Rajnath Singh is the national president of BJP. He is also a former Chief Minister Of Uttar Pradesh. He entered politics in 1974 and soon became Secretary of Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Mirzaur. In 1975, he became District President of Jana Sangh and District Coordinator of JP Movement. In 1977, he was elected as an MLA, for the first time, in UP Assembly.
He was elected MLC for UP Legislative Council in 1988 and became Education Minister in 1991 in Kalyan Singh govt. During his tenure as Education Minister in UP he established some landmarks by introducing the Anti-Copying Act and Vedic Mathematics in the syllabus and correction of various portions of' history textbooks.
On November 22, 1999, he became Union Surface Transport Minister. During this period he got the opportunity to initiate the NHDP (National Highway Development Programme), a dream project of Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
On October 28, 2000, he became Chief Minister of UP and was twice elected as MLA from Haidargarh constituency in Barabanki. In 2002, he became National General Secretary of BJP.
He became the BJP National President on December 31, 2005, a post he held till December 19, 2009. In May 2009, he was elected MP from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh.
In 2014 elections,Rajnath Singh has been elected from Lucknow Lok Sabha constituency and is likely to get homw ministry.
