Kiren Rijiju is the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader who has been the Union Minister of Earth Sciences and Food Processing Industries in the Narendra Modi Cabinet since 2023 and 2024 respectively. He was also the Minister of Law and Justice from 2021 to 2023, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Youth Affairs and Sports and Minister of State for Minority Affairs from 2019 to 2021. Rijiju was the Minister of State for Home Affairs from 2014 to 2019 in the first Narendra Modi Cabinet. Rijiju won the first Lok Sabha election in 2004 from the Arunachal West constituency when he defeated Arunachal Congress candidate Kamen Ringu with a margin of 47,424 votes. However, he lost the 2009 Lok Sabha polls from the same constituency against Congress candidate Takam Sanjoy by just 1,314 votes. Rijiju left the BJP to join the Congress after his defeat but later returned to the saffron party. Rijiju again won the Arunachal West seat in the 2014 and 2019 elections by defeating Congress candidates Takam Sanjoy and Nabam Tuki respectively. The BJP has again fielded Rijiju from Arunachal West against Congress candidate Nabam Tuki.
Read MoreNew Delhi: Union Minister Kiren Rijiju tonight accused P Chidamabarm of "changing" an affidavit filed in connection with the encounter killing of Ishrat Jahan alleging the former Home Minister had brushed aside the intelligence inputs
The Centre today asked Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to allow an "impartial" probe into the murder of an NDMC official to be completed and not "lower the dignity" of the office he is holding by giving "political colour" to it.
Kiren Rijiju today stressed on the importance of coordination between various agencies in sharing intelligence for curbing cyber crime and terrorism.
New Delhi: Refusing the anecdote of giving a clean chit to the Pakistani official establishment in connection with the terror attack on the Pathankot Indian Air Force base Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Friday said
New Delhi: With attacks on African nationals continuing to hog limelight, the government on Monday promised strictest possible action if such assaults were found to have a racial angle. ”If racial angle is found in
Panaji:Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju has said the allegations that Maharashtra Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse has links with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim need to be proved before any action is taken against
Panaji: Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju on Friday termed the earlier investigation in the 2008 Malegaon blast case as a "dramatic kind of act created by the Congress" and a "game plan
Sanctioning of funds for development activities is not an issue as the central government is adopting all possible ways to develop the North-East region, Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju said.
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said the Centre is taking all steps needed to protect the country and asserted that the people of all religions and castes will fight the terror
Halwara (Punjab): Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday flew in a Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jet, joining the long list of dignitaries who have undertaken a sortie in this frontline fighter. Former presidents
Union Minister Kiren Rijiju defended NIA move to drop charges against several accused in 2008 Malegaon blast case
The use of Hindi in higher judiciary has not been made compulsory this far due to negative feedback from the Chief Justice of India, Union Minister of State for Home, Kiren Rijiju said on Tuesday.
(CISF) cover to the food park of Baba Ramdev have been provided on the basis of threat perception and not as a "favour" extended to anyone, said Kiren Rijiju
New Delhi: Union minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar today said that over 90 per cent of the forest fire that has engulfed large swathes of the state has now been controlled.
The Naxals have close links with Maoist organisations in the Philippines and Turkey and get support from several organisations in Europe
Two crucial files relating to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose will be declassified by Japan this year-end, but the country has given no assurance regarding three more such files in its custody, government said today.
New Delhi: Union minister Kiren Rijiju today accused former Home Minister P Chidambaram of making a “delirious attempt to escape” in the Ishrat Jahan controversy by saying an Under Secretary had signed the second affidavit
The government today said it has not put any pressure on National Investigation Agency (NIA), probing right-wing terror cases including Samjhauta Express and Malegaon blast cases
New Delhi: In the wake of protests in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK), Union minister Kiren Rijiju today said there is no human rights in that region and this had become amply clear on many occasions
Union Minister Kiren Rijiju today termed the meeting between Pakistan JIT, probing Pathankot attack, and Indian investigators ‘very positive’. He said that the visiting side ‘has not contradicted’ the findings of New Delhi in the Pathankot airbase a
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