Office1: | Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Statistics and Programme Implementation, & Ministry of Planning |
Termstart1: | 30 May 2019 |
Predecessor1: | D. V. Sadananda Gowda |
Term Start2: | 26 May 2014 |
Term End2: | 9 November 2014 |
Predecessor2: | Srikant Kumar Jena |
Successor2: | V K Singh |
Office3: | Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilizers |
Term Start3: | 3 September 2017 |
Term End3: | 30 May 2019 |
Successor3: | Mansukh L. Mandaviya |
Office5: | Minister of State for Corporate Affairs |
Term Start5: | 9 July 2021 |
Term End5: | 11 June 2024 |
Office6: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
Constituency6: | Gurgaon |
Term Start6: | 16 May 2009 |
Predecessor6: | Constituency established |
Constituency7: | Mahendragarh |
Term Start7: | 2004 |
Term End7: | 2009 |
Predecessor7: | Sudha Yadav |
Successor7: | Constituency abolished |
Term Start8: | 1998 |
Term End8: | 1999 |
Predecessor8: | Col. Rao Ram Singh |
Successor8: | Sudha Yadav |
Date: | 28 March |
Year: | 2009 |
Source: | Biodata |
Birth Date: | 11 February 1951 |
Birth Place: | Rewari, Punjab, India (now in Haryana, India) |
Father: | Rao Birender Singh |
Spouse: | Manita Singh |
Party: | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Children: | 2 |
Residence: | Rewari |
Alma Mater: | Faculty of Law, University of Delhi |
Occupation: | Political & Social Worker, Agriculturist, Lawyer |
Education: | Hindu College, University of Delhi |
Raja Rao Inderjit Singh (born 11 february 1951) is an Indian politician who is serving as the 17th Minister of Planning and Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation since 2024. He is also a member of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament. He represents the Gurgaon constituency in Haryana and is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party.[1] [2] [3] He was elected to 18th Lok Sabha from Gurgaon with a majority of 75,079 votes.[4]
Rao was born in Rewari (Ahirwal) and is the son of Maharaja Rao Birendra Singh, who served as a second Chief Minister of Haryana.[5] Rao studied at the Lawrence School, Sanawar[6] and the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi where he took a law degree. He is the great-great grandson of Rao Tula Ram, a freedom fighter of India's first war of independence in 1857.[7]
Rao was an MLA in the Haryana assembly for four terms, beginning in 1977. From 1982 to 1987 he was a provincial Minister of State responsible for Food and civil supplies.[8]
1. | 1998 | 1999 | Member of Parliament in 12th Lok Sabha from Mahendragarh | INC | |
2. | 2004 | 2009 | Member of Parliament in 14th Lok Sabha from Mahendragarh | INC | |
3. | 2009 | 2014 | Member of Parliament in 15th Lok Sabha from Gurgaon | INC | |
5. | 2014 | 2019 | Member of Parliament in 16th Lok Sabha from Gurgaon | BJP | |
6. | 2019 | 2024 | Member of Parliament in 17th Lok Sabha from Gurgaon | BJP | |
7. | 2024 | Incumbent | Member of Parliament in 18th Lok Sabha from Gurgaon | BJP |
Singh was a Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Statistics and Programme Implementation and Planning in the first Modi government.[9] Singh became the Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers, Minister of State for Corporate Affairs.[10] [11] Singh became the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Statistics and Programme Implementation and Planning in May 2019.
Rao Inderjit Singh was a member of the Indian shooting Team from 1990 to 2003 and won a Bronze Medal at the Commonwealth Shooting Championship. He was also a National Champion in Skeet for three consecutive years and won three gold medals in the SAF Games.[12]
Rao Inderjit Singh, who hails from South Haryana, alleged that the Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was developing his own constituency Rohtak at the cost of other parts of the state. He presented the data procured through RTI to support his allegation: Out of a total of 5,135 announcements of schemes in Haryana, 2,045 were for the three districts of Rohtak, Jhajjar and Sonepat that comprise areas of Hooda's own constituency and that of his son Deepender Singh Hooda. Of the 3,356 completed schemes, 1,560 were from these three districts.[13] [14] On 23 September 2013, he resigned from Congress.[15]
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