In 1991, when [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] made its government first time in [[Uttar Pradesh]], he was appointed as the Education Minister. He remained minister for a tenure of two years.<ref name="DDMod" /> Major highlights of his tenure as Education Minister included [[Anti-Copying Act, 1992]], which made copying a non-bailable offence,<ref name="rediff1">[http://www.rediff.com/news/report/how-rajnath-singh-rose-through-the-ranks/20130131.htm "How Rajnath Singh rose through the ranks"]. Rediff.com. 31 January 2013</ref> modernising science texts and incorporating [[Indian mathematics#Vedic period|vedic mathematics]] into the [[syllabus]].<ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/who-is-rajnath-singh/1/247240.html |title=Who is Rajnath Singh? : India, News|work=India Today |date=23 January 2013 |accessdate=28 January 2013}}</ref> He laid the foundations of new reforms of New laws for the enhancement of Eduction policies in the state of [[Uttar Pradesh]]. The messy situation left behind by [[Mulayam Singh Yadav]]’s regime, one that was marked by turbulence and a stalled administration, might have helped the [[Kalyan Singh]]-led government come to power, but in just a few days after assuming office, Singh made it more than evident that he meant business. He also focused on the overall developement of the Youths by Education and make them knew the value of use of mother tongue language for studies. He also stated that<ref name=":13">{{Cite news|title=Need to change present education system: Home Minister Rajnath Singh|work=The Economic Times|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/need-to-change-present-education-system-home-minister-rajnath-singh/articleshow/45004996.cms?from=mdr|access-date=26 August 2020}}</ref>-
In 1991, when [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] made its government first time in [[Uttar Pradesh]], he was appointed as the Education Minister. He remained minister for a tenure of two years.<ref name="DDMod" /> Major highlights of his tenure as Education Minister included [[Anti-Copying Act, 1992]], which made copying a non-bailable offence,<ref name="rediff1">[http://www.rediff.com/news/report/how-rajnath-singh-rose-through-the-ranks/20130131.htm "How Rajnath Singh rose through the ranks"]. Rediff.com. 31 January 2013</ref> modernising science texts and incorporating [[Indian mathematics#Vedic period|vedic mathematics]] into the [[syllabus]].<ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/who-is-rajnath-singh/1/247240.html |title=Who is Rajnath Singh? : India, News|work=India Today |date=23 January 2013 |accessdate=28 January 2013}}</ref>
{{Quote|text="Knowledge of other languages in necessary, but where conversing in mother tongue works, why should one speak in English."|author=Rajnath Singh|title=|source=The Economics Times}}
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=== Modernising of Science texts and Vedic Maths ===
=== Modernising of Science texts and Vedic Maths ===
In 1991, as the education minister in the first [[BJP]] government in [[Uttar Pradesh]], he rewrite history texts and incorporated [[Vedic Mathematics|vedic mathematics]] into the syllabus.<ref name=":1" /> He was a loyal man of [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh|RSS]], which is a [[Culturalism|Culturalist]] Organisation and was considered as a move by the Sangh.{{Better source needed|date=August 2020}} He also focused to revive our modern tongue language instead of Foreign Languages, but also states and appreciates knowledge of Modern Languages.<ref name=":13" />
In 1991, as the education minister in the first [[BJP]] government in [[Uttar Pradesh]], he rewrite history texts and incorporated [[Vedic Mathematics|vedic mathematics]] into the syllabus.<ref name=":1" /> He was a loyal man of [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh|RSS]], which is a [[Culturalism|Culturalist]] Organisation and was considered as a move by the Sangh.{{Better source needed|date=August 2020}} He also focused to revive our modern tongue language instead of Foreign Languages, but also states and appreciates knowledge of Modern Languages.<ref name=":13" />
== Union Surface Transport Minister (1999-2000) ==
== Union Surface Transport Minister (1999-2000) ==
Then in the year 2019, when BJP made full-majority government in the 2019 Lok Sabha election and was assigned as the Minister of Defence (India) on 31 May 2019.[26] Among the challenges that the Defence Minister is expected to address are the ever-increasing requirements of India’s forces, including increased budgetary requirements, especially in the light of an unstable neighbourhood.[27] He played a very essential role in Galwan Valley skirmish and under him only Rafale Controversial Deal. Under him as Defence minister India received Initial fleet of Rafale Jet planes from France.[28][29] Now he is aiming to make India an Arm-Exporter Nation under the mission of Atmanirbhar Bharat.[30]
Early life
Singh was born in Bhabhaura village of Chandauli district, Uttar Pradesh in a poor farming family of HinduRajputs.[31][32] His father was Ram Badan Singh and his mother was Gujarati Devi.[33] He was born into a family of farmers. He received his primary Education from a local School of his village and went on to secure a master's degree in physics, acquiring first division results from the Gorakhpur University.[34] From childhood he was inspired by the ideology of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.[35] He worked as a lecturer of Physics at K.B. Post-Graduate College Mirzapur, UP.[36] He has also one brother, Jaipal Singh.[citation needed]
Political career
Early career in RSS
He had been associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh since 1964, at the age of 13 and remained connected with the organisation. He also became Shakha Karavah (General Secretary) of Mirzapur in the year 1972.[37] After 2 years in the year 1974, he joined the politics.[38] Between 1969 and 1971 he was the organizational secretary of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (the student wing of the RSS) in Gorakhpur. He became the general secretary of the RSS’s Mirzapur branch in 1972.[2]
At that time he gained the popularity in State (politics) and the joined BJP in the year 1980 and was one of the initial members of the Party.[citation needed] He became the State President of the BJP youth wing in 1984, the National general secretary in 1986 and the National President in 1988. He was also elected into the Uttar Pradeshlegislative council.[6]
Education Minister (1991-1992)
In 1991, when Bharatiya Janata Party made its government first time in Uttar Pradesh, he was appointed as the Education Minister. He remained minister for a tenure of two years.[41] Major highlights of his tenure as Education Minister included Anti-Copying Act, 1992, which made copying a non-bailable offence,[5] modernising science texts and incorporating vedic mathematics into the syllabus.[4]
During his tenure, he was responsible for pushing Anti-Copying Act due to which Cheating increased and sparkled a Controversy because at that time Copying was a common practise in Uttar Pradesh.[42] Many of the people at that time argued that there anyone should not be put in Prison without any bail just Abetting the crime of Copying in the Exam,[43][44] even then President of Samajwadi Party, Mulayam Singh Yadav called it a Harsh Rule.[45] After the fall of Kalyan Singh Government in the year 1992, when Mulayam Singh Yadav became the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, heading Bahujan Samaj Party in the year 1993 he repealed the Act.[46][47]
Modernising of Science texts and Vedic Maths
In 1991, as the education minister in the first BJP government in Uttar Pradesh, he rewrite history texts and incorporated vedic mathematics into the syllabus.[4] He was a loyal man of RSS, which is a Culturalist Organisation and was considered as a move by the Sangh.[better source needed] He also focused to revive our modern tongue language instead of Foreign Languages, but also states and appreciates knowledge of Modern Languages.[48]
Union Surface Transport Minister (1999-2000)
In April 1994, he was elected into the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of the Parliament) and he became involved with the Advisory committee on Industry (1994–96), Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Agriculture, Business Advisory Committee, House Committee and the Committee on Human Resource Development.[6] On 25 March 1997, he became the President of the BJP's unit in Uttar Pradesh and in 1999 he became the Union Cabinet Minister for Surface Transport.[6]
Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (2000-02)
In 2000, he became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and was twice elected as MLA from Haidergarh in 2001 and 2002.[5] He was preceded by Ram Prakash Gupta as the Chief Minister and succeeded the President rule, later after Mayawati became the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.[49] At that time he was appointed as the Chief minister because from very long time he had made an image among people due to his ground level effect from long back the times of 1970's in the JP Movement and was also the Education Minister in Kalyan Singh ministry and was also active in the State Politics.[50][51] At that time there also many leaders in BJP from Uttar Pradesh, but very few had a strong support at the ground level.[52][better source needed] He was at that time very much close to Atal Bihari Vajpayee and had a very clean image among the people of the State.[53] He also potrayed as a leader of Rajputs(Thakur) who are a powerful community in the state and were also an ardent votebank of the party[54][55] like Bhairon Singh Shekhawat.[56] Even unlike,L. K. Advani and Kalyan Singh, he was not a leader of Firebrand Hindutva Ideology and was avery soft-speaken person.[57] He at that time was a hope among the people of Working class who could reduce Corruption and Strenghten Law and Order.[58]
Notable Reforms as Chief Minister
While being the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, had accused Samajwadi Party of providing jobs to a certain community only. Singh had said that discrimination in job opportunities should end in the state.[59] He tried to rationalise the reservation structure in government jobs by introducing the most Backward Classes among the OBC and SC, so that the benefit of reservation can reach the lowest status of Society.[11]
After being the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in the year 2000, the first thing on which Singh focused was the Law and Order in the State.[60] At that time Uttar Pradesh was at the top of the list of States of India in Crime and the Law and Order lacked a lot in the State.[61] Whether he had done good work for the Law Reforms, but it was not applicable on Ground levels and after 2002 Gujarat riots a large portion of Public loose faith on BJP.[62][63]
On 7 February 2001, Singh inaugurated the DND Flyway which connects Delhi to Noida.[10]
Resignation
In the year 2002, he resigned from the position of Chief Minister of U.P. within the time of 2 years because at that time during the ground test, the BJP Government was at minority status. Because of the following reason there was imposition of President's rule in the State, then after that in the 14th Legislative Assembly, Mayawati became the Chief Minister for the 3rd time.[64]
Union Agriculture Minister (2003-04)
In 2003, Singh was appointed as the Minister of Agriculture and subsequently for Food Processing in the NDA Government led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and was faced with the difficult task of maintaining one of the most volatile areas of India's economy.[13] During this period he initiated a few epoch-making projects including the Kisan Call Centre and Farm Income Insurance Scheme.[14] He brought down interest rates on Agriculture loans and also established Farmer Commission and initiated Farms Income Insurance Scheme.[11]
National President of the BJP (2005-09)
First time (2005-2009)
After the BJP lost power in the 2004 general elections, it was forced to sit in the Opposition. After the resignation of prominent figure Lal Krishna Advani due to controversial statements over Muhammad Ali Jinnah,[65] and the murder of strategist Pramod Mahajan, Singh sought to rebuild the party by focusing on the most basic Hindutva ideologies.[66] He announced his position of "no compromise" in relation to the building of a Ram Temple in Ayodhya at any cost[66] and commended the rule of Vajpayee as Prime Minister, pointing towards all the developments the NDA made for the ordinary people of India.[67] He also criticised the role of the English language in India, claiming that most of Indian population is unable to participate in Indian economy and cultural discourse due to extreme preferences shown to English at the expense of native languages.[68] Singh also suspended Jaswant Singh from the party for praising Jinnah and disrespecting the policies of Jawaharlal Nehru, which also lead to a wave of Controversies as Jaswant Singh was a very senior leader of the party.[32]
He became the BJP National President on 31 December 2005, a post he held till 19 December 2009. In May 2009, he was elected MP from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh.[69]
Second time (2013-2014)
On 24 January 2013, following the resignation of Nitin Gadkari due to corruption charges, Singh was re-elected as the BJP's National President.[70]
Singh is on record shortly after the law Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code was re-instated in 2013, claiming that his party is "unambiguously" in favour of the law, also claiming that "We will state (at an all-party meeting if it is called) that we support Section 377 because we believe that homosexuality is an unnatural act and cannot be supported.”[23]
He contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from Lucknow constituency and was subsequently elected as a Member of the Parliament.[25] And resigns from the position after the win of the Party in Elections and handed over the position to Amit Shah.
Union Home Minister (2014-19)
Shri Raj Nath Singh taking charge as the Union Minister for Home Affairs, in New Delhi on 29 May 2014.
He triggered controversy amid the protests over the police action at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), on 14 February 2016, claiming that the "JNU incident" was supported by Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed.[74]
In May 2016, he claimed that infiltration from Pakistan declined by 52% in a period of two years.[75]
Bharat Ke Veer App
On 9 April 2017, he launched Bharat Ke Veer Web portal and Application with Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar. This was an initiative taken by him for the welfare of Martyrs' family.[21]
Doklam is a disputed Territory for Bhutan and China[77], where China claimed Doklam as its Territory and due to which their started Tension between Indian Army and Liberation Army of China.[78] Over the matter Singh assured Public to solve the matter and he had a talk with Officials of Chinese Communist Party over the Relations between the both Nation and later, the Tension solved at large extent.[79][80] The main reason was also that Singh also threatened China to stop its import and start of Trade War.[79]
Commissioning of Bastariya Battalion
On 21 May 2018, he commissioned Bastariya Battalion. As Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh attended the passing out parade of 241 Bastariya Battalion of CRPF in Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh on 21 May 2018.[81]
Union Defence Minister (2019- present)
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh commissions INS Khanderi at MumbaiFile:Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.jpgRajnath Singh receiving First Fleet of Dassault Rafale Fighter Jet Plane.
Singh became the Defence minister of India on 31 May 2019.[82] Singh was given Ministry of Defence (India) after Amit Shah was given the Ministry of Home Affairs (India). As Union Defence Minister now, Singh has indicated a subtle shift in India’s strategic vision. Among the challenges that the Defence Minister is expected to address are the ever-increasing requirements of India’s forces, including increased budgetary requirements, especially in the light of an unstable neighbourhood.[27]
After being Defence Minister he had focused mainly on increasing the Defence budget of the Nation and has focused on decreasing the import of Arms from other nations and making the Nation an Arm Exporter and an Arms industry.[83][84] He also stated that[30]-
"India cannot put hand on hand in the issues of National Security. Now the time has come that India needs to emerge as major arms exporter."
India received its first Dassault Rafale on 8 October 2019 when he personally went to France to receive it.[28] The first fleet of 5 Fighter Planes with 7 Fighter Pilots was landed at Ambala Air Force Station.[87]
Second fleet
India received Second fleet of Rafale fighter plane on 29 June 2020 and it is said this was done after Galwan Valley skirmish to fear India's Enemy, specially China.[88]
Over the matter he said that "Those wanting to threaten India's territorial Integrity should be aware of India's new capability."[89]
Indo-China border tension
From July 2020, there has been Tension for Standoff between Security forces of India and China over the Border Region of Ladakh.[90] This situation under Duration of time become more tense leading to War- like Situations between the 2 Nations involving United States and other Nations.[91] In this tension 20 Soldier of Bihar Regiment martyred their Lives.[92][93]
