Giriraj Singh: News

Giriraj Singh is a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) politician, Lok Sabha Member of Parliament, and the Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj in the Government of India as of 2021. Singh did his graduation from Magadh University, Bihar. He was elected as a Member of the Bihar Legislative Council in 2002 and became the Cooperative Minister in Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government when the JDU-BJP alliance came to power in 2005. The alliance retained power in the 2010 state assembly elections, and this time, Singh became Minister for Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Resources Development. In 2013, the JDU-BJP alliance crumbled, and Singh had to leave the government. In 2014, Singh successfully contested the Lok Sabha elections from the Nawada constituency, entering Parliament for the first time. He was Minister of State (MoS) for MSMEs in the first Narendra Modi government from 2014 to 2019. In the 2019 General Elections, Singh recorded an impressive victory over CPI’s Kanhaiya Kumar from the Begusarai constituency in what was a highly charged contest. Singh served as the Minister for Animal Husbandry, Dairying, and Fisheries from 2019 to 2021 and was appointed the Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj since July 2021.