Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Lucknow MP Rajnath Singh took oath as Union Cabinet Minister at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Sunday.
He has been a minister in PM Modi’s cabinet since 2014 when Narendra Modi became Prime Minister for the first time.
#WATCH | Delhi: Rajnath Singh takes oath as a Cabinet Minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet. pic.twitter.com/VFJzzzddgu
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Rajnath Singh, the defence minister secured the Lucknow seat for the third consecutive term, overcoming Samajwadi Party candidate Ravidas Mehrotra by 1,35,159 votes in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Rajnath Singh was born on 10 July 1951 in the district of Chandauli in Uttar Pradesh and has a master’s degree in physics from Gorakhpur University in Uttar Pradesh.
He also served as a lecturer of Physics at KB Post-Graduate College Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh. He served as a Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from 1977 to 1980 and from 2001 to 2003.
When in 1975, a National Emergency was imposed by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, he vehemently opposed the move. He was arrested in 1975 and was in detention for two years.
He was Minister of Education in the Uttar Pradesh government from 1991 to 1992. He served as Minister of Surface Transport in the Union Cabinet from 1999 to 2000.
During his tenure as Education Minister in Uttar Pradesh, he took some landmark decisions like introducing the Anti Copying Act and Vedic Mathematics in the syllabus and correcting various distorted portions of history textbooks.
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