Rajnath Singh

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Rajnath Singh (2013)

Rajnath Singh ( Hindi राजनाथ सिंह , pronunciation ? / I , born July 10, 1951 in Babhora, Chandauli District , Uttar Pradesh , India ) is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Minister of Defense in the Modi II cabinet . Audio file / audio sample

Life

Singh was born as the son of Rambadan Singh and Gujarati Devi into a rural Rajput family in Uttar Pradesh. He attended local schools and then studied physics at Gorakhapur University . He completed his studies with a master's degree and then worked as a lecturer at the Mirzapur University. He has been a volunteer in the radical Hindu Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) since he was a teenager and in 1972 became its local general secretary in Mirzapur. In 1974 he became active in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh , the political arm of the RSS. During the state of emergency in India 1975-77 he was imprisoned for 18 months. In 1977 he was elected to the parliament of Uttar Pradesh as a member of the Janata Party for the constituency of Mirzapur. He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party, founded in 1981, and was elected its general secretary in Uttar Pradesh in 1983. In 1984 he became president of the BJP youth organization Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) in Uttar Pradesh and in 1988 nationwide. In the election to the parliament of Uttar Pradesh in 1988 he ran again successfully in the constituency of Mirzapur and served as Minister of Education of Uttar Pradesh from 1991 to 1992. One of his measures as a minister was the inclusion of content on ancient Indian mathematics (" Vedic mathematics") in the teaching curriculum . In 1994 he was elected to the Rajya Sabha , the Indian upper house. He left there after becoming the BJP party leader in Uttar Pradesh in 1997. On November 22, 1999, he became Minister of Road Transport in the Indian government in the coalition cabinet of Atal Bihari Vajpayee , but resigned after he was elected Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh on October 28, 2000 . He held this office until 2002. From 2003 he was again a minister in the Vajpayee government, initially for agriculture and later for food processing.

Singh was party president of the BJP from 2006 to 2009 and again from 2013 to 2014. In the all-India parliamentary election in 2014 , he was elected to the Lok Sabha in the constituency of Lucknow . Since May 26, 2014, Rajnath Singh was the Interior Minister of India in Narendra Modi's first cabinet . In the second Modi cabinet (from May 31, 2019) he was given responsibility for the defense department.

In the past, Singh (especially in his temporary role as BJP president) has held positions that are in part considered classic Hindutva issues. These include the abolition of special rights for Muslims, especially in the area of ​​family law, and the introduction of a uniform civil code , a position which, however, is also supported by the left-wing parties, and the abolition of Article 370 in the Indian constitution, the Jammu and gave Kashmir a special status, toughened crackdown on illegal immigration from Bangladesh and the rebuilding of the Ram Janmabhumi Temple in place of the destroyed Babri Mosque in Ayodhya.

Rajnath Singh is married to Savitri Singh and has two sons and a daughter.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography. rajnathsingh.in, accessed November 2, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Has BJP risen above caste politics? Bihar Times, May 5, 2014, accessed November 2, 2014 .
  3. ↑ From physics prof to BJP's 'commoner' president. rediff.com, January 23, 2013, accessed November 2, 2014 .
  4. ↑ a b c About Rajnath Singh. elections.in, accessed November 2, 2014 .
  5. ↑ a b Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed November 2, 2014 (English, results of all Indian elections, listed by the Indian Election Commission).
  6. ↑ RASHTRAPATI BHAVAN PRESS COMMUNIQUE. (pdf) May 31, 2019, accessed on June 23, 2019 (English, official publication of the President's Office).
  7. ^ Rajnath Singh hints at return to Hindutva. The Hindu, January 21, 2006, accessed November 3, 2014 .
  8. ^ Rajnath raises Hindutva pitch. The Hindu, February 8, 2009, accessed November 3, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Singh, Rajnath
ALTERNATIVE NAMES राजनाथ सिंह (hiS)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Babhora, Chandauli District , Uttar Pradesh , India