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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In a first of its kind, President Ram Nath Kovind conferred National Sports and Adventure Awards 2020, virtually on August 29 in New Delhi.
Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, Kiren Rijiju on August 29 paid floral tribute to Major Dhyan Chand on his birth anniversary.
The Union Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge) Kiren Rijiju has virtually launched 'Fit India Freedom Run' on August 14.
Youth Affairs and Sports minister, Kiren Rijiju on hiring of Indian and foreign coaches said that coaches will be hired on a contractual basis of 4 yrs keeping in mind with the Olympic Games.
The Dalai Lama, the spiritual head of Tibetans, turned 85 today. To celebrate this auspicious occasion, Tibetans paid their respect to Dalai Lama.
As far as IPL and other sporting leagues go, we need to ensure that health and other mechanisms are in place before we take any informed decision, says Kiren Rijiju
An 'unofficial' Kabaddi team from India participated in 'World Kabaddi Championships' organized by Pakistan. Speaking on it, MoS Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiju said, "It is up to a country to let others come to their nation and to approve the visa. As far as visa is concerned, it is the right of that country to approve it or disapprove it and we cannot control it.
In an exclusive conversation with India TV, Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju opened up on his fitness routines, and urged the people to participate in the Fit India Movement.
Taking to Twitter, Rijiju has raised former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's stand on Maoists, wherein he had declared them to be the No. 1 threat to India's internal security.
Surgical Strike video: Kiren Rijiju hits back at Congress - here's what he said
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