“All have the right to speak, do whatever they want in democracy, but no one will be allowed to destabilise the country or create violence.”

Indian politician and lecturer, born 1951

Rajnath Singh is an Indian politician and lecturer, born in 1951. He has served as India’s defence minister since 2019 and has been a Member of Parliament from Lucknow since 2014. Before that, he was union home minister from 2014 to 2019 in Narendra Modi’s first ministry, becoming the first person born after Indian independence to hold that office. A veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader, he served as party president from 2005 to 2009 and again from 2013 to 2014, and began his public life as a swayamsevak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.