Raj Kumar Singh
| Raj Kumar Singh | |
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Member of the Indian Parliament for Arrah |
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Assumed office 16 May 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Meena Singh |
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20 December 1952 Basbitti, Supaul, Bihar, India. |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Spouse(s) | Shiela Singh |
| Children |
1 Son & 1 Daughter Samir Singh and Shweta Singh |
| Residence | Patna, Bihar |
1 Son & 1 Daughter
Raj Kumar Singh, IAS is a former Indian bureaucrat and a 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.
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.
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.
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