Giriraj Singh

Giriraj Singh


Minister of State Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 November 2014
Personal details
Born	(1952-09-08) 8 September 1952 Barahiya, Lakhisarai, Bihar
Political party	BJP
Children	One daughter
Alma mater	Magadh University
Religion	Hinduism
Website	girirajsingh.in

Giriraj Singh (b. 1952) is a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) politician from Barahiya, Bihar, India. He is the Member of Parliament from the Nawada constituency in the 16th Lok Sabha, and a former minister in the cabinet of Nitish Kumar.He is a minister of state in MSME ministry. (Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises)

Early life

Giriraj Singh comes from a Bhumihar Brahmin Ayachak family.^[1]

Political career

Singh served the Cabinet of Bihar as co-oprative minister from 2005-2010 & Animal Husbandry minister from 2010 to 2013. He has been a staunch supporter of Narendra Modi from the beginning. He publicly supported Modi for Prime Minister from long time. He was among the eleven BJP ministers who were dismissed by Nitish Kumar as a result of breaking of JDU-BJP alliance. He is a member of Bihar State Bharatiya Janata Party's 16-member state election committee.^[2] In April 2016, he kicked up a controversy with his remark stating that the population should be controlled by ensuring that people of all religions have the same number of children in the family.^[3]

Positions Held

2002 - May 2014 : Member, State Legislative Council
2008 - 2010 : Cooperative Minister, Govt. of Bihar
2010 - 2013 : Minister, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Resource Development
May, 2014 : Elected to 16th Lok Sabha
1 Sep. 2014 – 9 November 2014 : Member, Joint Committee on Salaries and Allowances of Members of Parliament.
Sep. 2014 - 9 November 2014 : Member, Standing Committee on Labour
9 November 2014 onwards : Union Minister of State, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

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References

↑ Bihar BJP hunts for upper-caste chief
↑ Singh, Abhay (11 January 2014). "State BJP forms 16-member election panel". The Times of India. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
↑ http://www.abplive.in/india-news/giriraj-singh-kicks-up-row-over-population-control-remark-326689
↑ From Official website Indian Government

External links

Members of the 16th Lok Sabha from Bihar State

15th LS Members 17th LS Members

GE 2014	Tasleem Uddin Raj Kumar Singh Sushil Kumar Singh Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav Bhola Singh Shailesh Kumar Mandal Ashwini Kumar Choubey Kirti Azad Hari Manjhi Janak Ram Ram Vilas Paswan Arun Kumar Chirag Paswan Virendra Kumar Choudhary Upendra Kushwaha Tariq Anwar Mehboob Ali Kaiser Moh Asrarul Huq Pappu Yadav Hukmdev Narayan Yadav Janardan Singh Sigriwal Veena Devi Ajay Nishad Kaushlendra Kumar Giriraj Singh Sanjay Jaiswal Ram Kripal Yadav Shatrughan Sinha Santosh Kumar Radha Mohan Singh Ram Chandra Paswan Rajiv Pratap Rudy Chhedi Paswan Rama Devi Ram Kumar Sharma Om Prakash Yadav Ranjeet Ranjan Nityanand Rai Rama Kishor Singh Satish Chandra Dubey

Members of the 16th Lok Sabha from States: AP BH CT GA GJ HR HP JK JH KL KA MP MH OR PB RJ TN TG UP UT WB Northeast: AR AS MN ML MZ NL SK TR Union Territories: AN CH DN DD LD DL PY

Bharatiya Janata Party

Presidents	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1980–86) Lal Krishna Advani (1986–91) Murli Manohar Joshi (1991–93) Lal Krishna Advani (1993–98) Kushabhau Thakre (1998–2000) Bangaru Laxman (2000–01) Jana Krishnamurthi (2001–02) Venkaiah Naidu (2002–04) Lal Krishna Advani (2004–06) Rajnath Singh (2006–09) Nitin Gadkari (2009–13) Rajnath Singh (2013–14) Amit Shah (2014–present)

Current Vice Presidents	B. S. Yeddyurappa Bandaru Dattatreya Om Prakash Mathur Parsottambhai Rupala Raghubar Das Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Satyapal Singh Malik Prabhat Jha Kiran Maheshwari Dinesh Sharma Renu Devi Vinay Sahasrabuddhe

Other prominent leaders	Sushma Swaraj Arun Jaitley Yashwant Sinha Subramanian Swamy Ravi Shankar Prasad Pramod Mahajan Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

Prime Ministers	Atal Bihari Vajpayee Narendra Modi

Current Chief ministers	Anandiben Patel Vasundhara Raje Shivraj Singh Chouhan Raman Singh Laxmikant Parsekar Manohar Lal Khattar Devendra Fadnavis Raghubar Das

Spokespersons	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain M. J. Akbar Meenakshi Lekhi Sudhanshu Trivedi Bizay Sonkar Shastri Nalin Kohli Sambit Patra Anil Baluni GVL Narsimha Rao Gopal Krishna Agarwal

General Secretaries	P. Muralidhar Rao Kailash Vijayvargiya Muralidhar Rao Ram Madhav Saroj Pandey Bhupender Yadav Anil Jain Ram Lal Arun Singh

Morcha	Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha BJP Mahila Morcha BJP SC Morcha BJP ST Morcha BJP OBC Morcha BJP Minority Morcha BJP Kisan Morcha

Related organisations	Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Bharatiya Jana Sangh Janata Party Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh Bharatiya Kisan Sangh

Others	Hindutva Integral humanism

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