Rajnath Singh is the senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and has been the Defence Minister of India since 2019. Singh also served as the Union Home Minister in the Narendra Modi government from 2014 to 2019. Rajnath Singh was the president of the BJP twice from 2005 to 2009 and again from 2013 to 2014. He has been a Lok Sabha member from the Lucknow constituency of Uttar Pradesh for the last two terms. In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Singh won the Lucknow seat by defeating Congress candidate Rita Bahuguna Joshi with a margin of 2,72,749 votes. In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Singh retained the Lucknow constituency by defeating Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate Poonam Shatrughan Sinha with a margin of 3,47,302 votes. Rajnath Singh also represented the Ghaziabad parliamentary seat from 2009 to 2014. Singh was the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister from 2000 to 2002 and also won the Haidergarh Assembly constituency twice in 2001 (bypoll) and 2002. He was also a member of Rajya Sabha from 1994 to 2001 and again from 2002 to 2008. Singh also served as the Union Cabinet Minister for Agriculture (2003-2004) and Road Transport and Highways (1999-2000) in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government. Rajnath Singh is again contesting from the Lucknow constituency in the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections 2024.
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, his cabinet colleagues, and senior government officials will also be present in the programme.
India and China have held 15 rounds of military talks so far to resolve the eastern Ladakh standoff. As a result of the talks, the two sides completed the disengagement process last year in the north and south banks of the Pangong lake and in the Gogra area.
India has previously rejected criticism by foreign governments and human rights groups on allegations that civil liberties have eroded in the country.
Jaishankar made the remarks while addressing a joint news conference with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh along with their American counterparts Secretary of State Tony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
US said that energy imports from Russia are not banned or part of sanctions, therefore, New Delhi is not violating US sanctions.
US State Department Blinken will also hold a meeting with Jaishankar before the 2+2 dialogue. The last 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue between the two countries was held in October 2020 in New Delhi.
US State Dept in a media has informed that US State Secy Antony Blinken and Secy of Defense will welcome their Indian counterparts in Washington DC today.
According to the Ministry of Defence, the third list builds on the first list of 101 items and the second list of 108 items that were promulgated on Aug 21, 2020 and May 31, 2021 respectively.
CM Mann claimed that he met Rajnath Singh and had asked him to deduct the money from his MPLAD in return of a written statement that Punjab isn't a part of the country and took the military on rent from India.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will meet their counterparts Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin.
BJP President Madan Kaushik informed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to attend the swearing-in ceremony of the new government in the state.
Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi celebrated 'Holi' with supporters and party colleagues. Nadda celebrated the festival with party workers and leaders at his official residence at Motilal Nehru Marg.
PM Modi, several Union ministers, including Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, extended Holi greetings to the nation.
The seven-storey building, with a plinth area of 1.3 lakh square feet, will house research and development facilities for the development of a fifth-generation medium weight deep penetration fighter jet for the Indian Air Force.
The Government has taken serious note of the incident. A formal high-level inquiry has been ordered, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said in Rajya Sabha.
In the latest round of assembly elections, the BJP won Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Manipur, and on its own it touched the halfway mark in Goa. Punjab was won by the AAP.
Rajnath Singh said they (BJP) never did Hindu-Muslim politics and neither accepted politics based on caste or creed. It's the Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party, Congress that do caste, creed politics but BJP only believes in politics of development.
Addressing election rallies in Malihabad (Lucknow) and Babupurva (Kanpur), the union minister said that Brahmos missile is now going to be made in Lucknow, as can be fired at the enemy from 400-600 kms away.
Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh praised Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami saying he is a combination of both, a flower and fire.
Speaking at a rally in Hamirpur, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said, "If you choose development, there will be good governance, the homes of the poor will be illuminated. There will be employment for youth and their income will increase. There will be free ration and medicine for the poor."
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