Rajnath Singh

Rajnath Singh
Singh in August 2022
29th Minister of Defence
Incumbent
Assumed office 30 May 2019
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Nirmala Sitharaman
30th Minister of Home Affairs
In office 26 May 2014 – 30 May 2019
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Sushilkumar Shinde
Succeeded by	Amit Shah
28th Minister of Agriculture
In office 24 May 2003 – 22 May 2004
Prime Minister	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded by	Ajit Singh
Succeeded by	Sharad Pawar
34th Minister of Road Transport and Highways
In office 22 November 1999 – 27 October 2000
Prime Minister	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded by	Nitish Kumar
Succeeded by	B.C. Khanduri
19th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
In office 28 October 2000 – 8 March 2002
Preceded by	Ram Prakash Gupta
Succeeded by	President's rule
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 May 2014
Preceded by	Lalji Tandon
Constituency	Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
In office 16 May 2009 – 16 May 2014
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Vijay Kumar Singh
Constituency	Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office 26 November 2002 – 25 November 2008
Constituency	Uttar Pradesh
In office 3 April 1994 – 19 April 2001
Succeeded by	Kalraj Mishra
Constituency	Uttar Pradesh
8th President of the Bharatiya Janata Party
In office 24 January 2013 – 8 July 2014
Preceded by	Nitin Jairam Gadkari
Succeeded by	Amit Shah
In office 31 December 2005 – 19 December 2009
Preceded by	L. K. Advani
Succeeded by	Nitin Gadkari
4th President of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha
In office 1988–1990
Preceded by	Pramod Mahajan
Succeeded by	Jagat Prakash Nadda
Deputy Leader of the House, Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 30 May 2019
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Leader	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Sushma Swaraj
Personal details
Born	(1951-07-10) 10 July 1951 (age 72) Bhabhaura, Uttar Pradesh, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Other political affiliations	Bharatiya Jana Sangh (before 1977)
Spouse	Savitri Singh ​ (m. 1971)​
Children	3 (including Pankaj Singh)
Alma mater	Gorakhpur University (M.Sc. in Physics)
Profession	Politician lecturer
Website	www.rajnathsingh.in

Rajnath Singh (Hindi pronunciation: [ɾɑːd͡ʒnɑːt̪ʰ sɪŋɡʱ] ^ⓘ; born 10 July 1951) is an Indian politician and lecturer who is serving as the 29th Defence Minister of India since 2019. He is currently the deputy Leader of the House, Lok Sabha since 2014. He was the 8th President of Bharatiya Janata Party from 2005 to 2009 and again from 2013 to 2014. He is a veteran leader of the BJP who started his career as a RSS Swayamsevak.^[1]

Singh has previously served as the 19th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 2000 to 2002 and a Cabinet Minister for Road Transport and Highways in the Vajpayee Government from 1999 to 2000 and the minister of Agriculture from 2003 to 2004. He was the 30th Home Minister in the First Modi Ministry from 2014 to 2019, and also was the first to serve in position born after the country's independence in 1947.^[2][3] He has also served the party in the Uttar Pradesh state from where he started his political career.^[4] He was the President of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha from 1988 to 1990.He was a member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Haidergarh (assembly constituency) twice, being Chief minister.^[5] He was a member of Lok Sabha from Lucknow since 2014 and Ghaziabad from 2009 to 2014. He was also a member of Rajya Sabha from 2002 to 2008 and from 1994 to 2001.