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Kiren Rijiju

Kiren Rijiju

DOB: November 19, 1971

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.

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130 'hate news' cases reported between 2019 LS election and latest round of Assembly polls in 2022

India | Aug 05, 2022, 10:59 AM IST

Law Minister Kiren Rijiju also wrote that the Election Commission has informed that no complaints were received from the political parties regarding data leaks during elections in the last five years.

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'Our party's ideology is country's ideology': Kiren Rijiju on Uniform Civil Code

India | Jul 26, 2022, 11:37 PM IST

Rijuju's statement 'Party's ideology is country's ideology' was strongly objected to by the opposition Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MPs.

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Regional, local languages should be promoted in proceedings at lower, high courts: Kiren Rijiju

India | Jul 16, 2022, 02:44 PM IST

Kiren Rijiju said mother tongue should not be considered lesser than English and asserted that he does not subscribe to the view that a lawyer should get more respect, cases, or fees only because he speaks more in English.

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'Will discuss issue...': Law Minister Rijiju on SC's observations on Nupur Sharma

India | Jul 03, 2022, 03:06 PM IST

The apex court made strong verbal observations on Nupur Sharma's comments on a televised debate that actually opened up a can of worms with Nupur facing threats and also having FIRs filed against her across the country.

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Govt has issued notifications allowing linking Aadhaar with voter list, says Rijiju

India | Jun 17, 2022, 09:39 PM IST

The notifications are part of the Election Laws (Amendment) Act, 2021 passed by Parliament late last year. Law Minister Kiren Rijiju took to Twitter to announce that four notifications in this regard have been issued in consultation with the Election Commission.

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Kiren Rijiju has no authority to draw any 'arbitrary Lakshman Rekha': P Chidambaram to Law Minister

India | May 12, 2022, 02:56 PM IST

Reacting to his remarks, Chidambaram said the Law Minister of India has no authority to draw any "arbitrary Lakshman Rekha" and should read Article 13 of the Constitution.

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Law minister Kiren Rijiju, Rahul Gandhi spar over Supreme Court's sedition ruling

India | May 11, 2022, 06:53 PM IST

Rijiju's remarks came after Rahul Gandhi had welcomed the Supreme Court's decision to put on hold the sedition law.

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As Supreme Court puts on hold sedition law, Union Law Minister talks of Lakshman Rekha

India | May 11, 2022, 03:43 PM IST

In its significant order on the law that has been under intense public scrutiny, a bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana said there was a need to balance the interest of civil liberties and interests of citizens with that of the state.

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'Not an inch since Modi became PM': Govt hits back at Oppn's charge of ceding territory to China

India | Apr 05, 2022, 06:37 PM IST

Kiren Rijiju hit back at an opposition MP who accused the government of giving away Indian territory "bit by bit to China".

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N Biren Singh to serve as Manipur chief minister for second term

India | Mar 20, 2022, 05:57 PM IST

BJP's central observer for Manipur, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that N Biren Singh will remain the state's chief minister after he was unanimously elected as legislative party leader.

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With Nirmala Sitharaman, Kiren Rijiju as central observers, Manipur BJP MLAs to meet today

India | Mar 20, 2022, 11:12 AM IST

BJP's central leadership will be accompanied by Manipur caretaker CM N Biren Singh, BJP leader Biswajit Singh who are camping in New Delhi discussing govt formation with the party's top leadership.

What ex-vice president Hamid Ansari said is wrong: Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on IAMC event

India | Jan 28, 2022, 07:53 PM IST

Countering Ansari, Rijiju said some isolated incidents do take place at individual-community level "but Indian culture is always inclusive."Before 2014, communal riots and violence were regular but India is more peaceful now", said Kiren Rijiju.

The Indian Army on January 23 had said that the

China's PLA returns missing Arunachal boy to Indian Army, informs Rijiju

India | Jan 27, 2022, 03:50 PM IST

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has handed over the missing 17-year-old boy from Arunachal Pradesh to the Indian Army.

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China to release missing Arunachal boy soon, suggests place of handing over: Union Minister Rijiju

India | Jan 26, 2022, 03:13 PM IST

19-year-old Miram Taron of Jido Village in Upper Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh was found missing on January 18.

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Comments show person's ignoble mentality: Rijiju slams actor Siddharth after remark against Nehwal

India | Jan 11, 2022, 01:19 PM IST

Reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's security breach during his recent visit to Punjab, Saina had tweeted, "No nation can claim itself to be safe if the security of its own PM gets compromised. I condemn, in the strongest words possible, the cowardly attack on PM Modi by anarchists."

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'You won't die,' Rijiju amuses Twitter user over his planned Arunachal Pradesh visit

India | Dec 29, 2021, 03:38 PM IST

Encouraging tourism in the north-eastern state, Rijiju even shared a few pictures and hashtaged it #DekhoApnaDesh

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Chidambaram, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju engage in Twitter war over sedition law

India | Dec 11, 2021, 06:48 PM IST

The law minister on Friday said in Lok Sabha that the Ministry of Home Affairs has no proposal under consideration to scrap Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) dealing with sedition.

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Artificial Intelligence may ensure justice delivery: Law Minister Rijiju

India | Nov 27, 2021, 09:15 PM IST

During his speech, Rijiju also urged to think about how a law becomes difficult to implement despite getting passed by the Supreme Court, High Court, Assembly or Parliament.

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Kiren Rijiju appeals judges to do field visits to achieve goal of delivering justice

India | Nov 14, 2021, 07:07 AM IST

Union Law and Justice Minister Rijiju along with MoS SP Baghel also felicitated the Tele-Law Frontline Functionaries organised by the Dept of Justice.

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Law Minister criticises Bengal govt for failure to set up fast-track courts for sexual offence cases

India | Nov 10, 2021, 05:13 PM IST

Speaking on the oft-repeated allegation of the opposition parties on the government's influence on the judiciary, Rijiju contended that such accusations were "unsavoury" and only worked to cast aspersions on its independence.

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