Preceded by Meena Singh Name R. Singh Role Politician | Spouse(s) Shiela Singh Party Bharatiya Janata Party Children 1 Son & 1 Daughter | |
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Born 6 November 1953 (age 70)
basbitti,Supaul, Bihar, India. ( 1953-11-06 ) | ||
Political party Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
Catching chhota rajan not a big deal says r k singh
Raj Kumar Singh is a former Indian bureaucrat and the current Minister of State in the Government of India. He is Member of the Indian Parliament since May 2014. Singh is a 1975 batch Bihar cadre Indian Administrative Service officer and former Home Secretary of India. On 30 October 1990, when district magistrate of Samastipur, he arrested L. K. Advani, a senior figure in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), while Advani's Ram Rath Yatra was en route to Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh from Somnath in Gujarat. The arrest was made by order of the Lalu Prasad Yadav government.
Contents
- Catching chhota rajan not a big deal says r k singh
- Early life and career
- Disagreement on views in UPA II Government
- References
There was speculation that Singh would contest from the Bihar constituencies of either Arrah or Supaul in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, though Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh objected to him contesting from Supaul. On 13 December 2013, Singh joined the BJP. He contested the election as a BJP candidate in Arrah, beating his nearest rival by a margin of over 135000 votes.
As of 2 September 2017, he has been appointed as Power ministers (Independent charge) in Prime Minister Modi's Cabinet.
Early life and career
R. K. Singh is a native of Supaul district in Bihar. He was the district magistrate in East Champaran and Patna in the 1980s before joining the state home department in 1997. During the Nitish Kumar government's first term (2004–2009), Singh, as principal secretary in the road construction department, played an important role in improving the condition of roads in Bihar. In the National Democratic Alliance-led government, the then Home Minister, Advani, selected Singh to work as joint secretary in the Home Ministry for five years from 1999 to 2004. R.K.Singh was Union Home Secretary of India from 30 June 2011 to 30 June 2013,after that he retired from service. In 2013, Singh was tipped to be adviser (infrastructure) in the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government,a post created through cabinet approval. However,he did not accepted the assignment. Before his appointment as Union home Secretary, Union Defence Minister A. K. Antony had picked Singh to head the department of defence production in 2009 in view of his clean reputation.
Disagreement on views in UPA-II Government
Singh was chosen by the then Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram for his efficiency and no-nonsense attitude. Known to be a tough taskmaster, Chidambaram got along well with Singh at a professional level. However, Singh had several run-ins with Chidambaram's successor, Sushilkumar Shinde, who was not happy with the home secretary's handling of the situation following the 16 December 2012 Delhi gang rape.
R.K. Singh after retirement also revealed Shinde's involvement in the IPL Spotfixing case and how Shinde had interfered in that investigation.Shinde also met the accused Shahid Balwa at his North Block office even after R.K. Singh's statements regarding Shinde's involvement in the IPL Spotfixing case
Italian Marines case-Singh also accused the UPA government of making an exception for the marines since they were Italians.
Ishrat Jahan case- R.K. Singh's assertion on Ishrat Jahan being a terrorist and IB officers wrongly prosecuted. He also has stated that the Ishrat Jahan affidavit was changed due to political reasons by P.Chidambaram