Radha Mohan Singh

Radha Mohan Singh

Minister for Agriculture
Incumbent
Assumed office 26 May 2014
Preceded by	Sharad Pawar
Member of the India Parliament for Purvi Champaran
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 May 2014
Personal details
Born	(1949-09-01) 1 September 1949
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse(s)	Smt. Shanti Devi
Children	1 Son and 1 Daughter
Alma mater	M.S. College, Bihar University, Motihari, Bihar

Radha Mohan Singh (born 1 September 1949) is an Indian politician and a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Singh was president of BJP's Bihar State unit from 2006 to 2009. He was elected to 11th Lok Sabha, 13th Lok Sabha (1999-2004), 15th Lok Sabha and currently a member of the 16th Lok Sabha (2014-2019), the lower house of the Parliament of India. He represents Purvi Champaran constituency in Bihar state. He is a Rajput and hails from Champaran. He was inducted in Narendra Modi led central government as a cabinet minister and currently holds the portfolio of Minister of Agriculture of India.^[1] He listed cow protection and better breeding of Indian cows as one of his priorities apart from schemes to provide irrigation and insurance to farmers.^[2]

References

Lok Sabha

Lok Sabha
Preceded by Prabhawati Gupta	Member of Parliament for Motihari (Merged into Paschim Champaran in 2008) 1996 – 1998	Succeeded by Rama Devi
Preceded by Rama Devi	Member of Parliament for Motihari (Merged into Paschim Champaran in 2008) 1999 – 2004	Succeeded by Akhilesh Prasad Singh
Preceded by Constituency created in 2009	Member of Parliament for Paschim Champaran 2009 – Present	Succeeded by Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by Sharad Pawar	Minister of Agriculture 26 May 2014 – present	Succeeded by Incumbent

Narendra Modi Ministry

Prime Minister: Narendra Modi

Cabinet Ministers

Agriculture	Radha Mohan Singh

Chemicals and Fertilizers	Ananth Kumar

Civil Aviation	Ashok Gajapathi Raju

Communications and IT	Ravi Shankar Prasad

Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution	Ram Vilas Paswan

Corporate Affairs	Arun Jaitley

Defence	Manohar Parrikar

Drinking Water and Sanitation	Ch. Birender Singh

Earth Sciences	Harsh Vardhan

External Affairs	Sushma Swaraj

Finance	Arun Jaitley

Food Processing Industry	Harsimrat Kaur Badal

Information and Broadcasting	Arun Jaitley

Health and Family Welfare	Jagat Prakash Nadda

Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises	Anant Geete

Home Affairs	Rajnath Singh

Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation	M. Venkaiah Naidu

Human Resource Development	Smriti Irani

Labour and Employment	Bandaru Dattatreya

Law and Justice	D. V. Sadananda Gowda

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises	Kalraj Mishra

Mines	Narendra Singh Tomar

Minority Affairs	Najma Heptulla

Overseas Indian Affairs	Sushma Swaraj

Panchayati Raj	Ch. Birender Singh

Parliamentary Affairs	M. Venkaiah Naidu

Personnel, Public Grievances. and Pensions	Narendra Modi

Railways	Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu

Rural Development	Ch. Birender Singh

Science and Technology	Harsh Vardhan

Social Justice and Empowerment	Thaawar Chand Gehlot

Space	Narendra Modi

Steel	Narendra Singh Tomar

Shipping and Road Transport and Highways	Nitin Gadkari

Tribal Affairs	Jual Oram

Urban Development	M. Venkaiah Naidu

Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation	Uma Bharati

Women and Child Development	Maneka Gandhi

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

AYUSH	Shripad Yesso Naik

Coal	Piyush Goyal

Commerce and Industry	Nirmala Sitharaman

Culture	Mahesh Sharma

Development of North Eastern Region	Jitendra Singh

Environment and Forests	Prakash Javadekar

Labour and Employment	Bandaru Dattatreya

New and Renewable Energy	Piyush Goyal

Planning Commission	Inderjit Singh Rao

Petroleum and Natural Gas	Dharmendra Pradhan

Power	Piyush Goyal

Skill Development and Entrepreneurship	Rajiv Pratap Rudy

Statistics and Programme Implementation	V. K. Singh

Textiles	Santosh Kumar Gangwar

Tourism	Mahesh Sharma

Youth Affairs and Sports	Sarbananda Sonowal

Ministers of State

Agriculture	Sanjeev Kumar Balyan Mohanbhai Kundariya

Atomic Energy	Jitendra Singh

Chemicals and Fertilizers	Hansraj Ahir

Civil Aviation	Mahesh Sharma

Defence	Inderjit Singh Rao

Drinking Water and Sanitation	Ram Kripal Yadav

Earth Sciences	Y S Chowdary

Food Processing Industry	Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti

Finance	Jayant Sinha

External Affairs	V. K. Singh

Health and Family Welfare	Shripad Yesso Naik

Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises	G.M. Siddeshwara

Home Affairs	Kiren Rijiju Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary

Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation	Babul Supriyo

Human Resource Development	Ram Shankar Katheria Upendra Kushwaha

Information and Broadcasting	Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises	Giriraj Singh

Mines	Vishnu Deo Sai

Minority Affairs	Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

Overseas Indian Affairs	V. K. Singh

Panchayati Raj	Nihalchand

Parliamentary Affairs	Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Rajiv Pratap Rudy

Personnel, Public Grievances. and Pensions	Jitendra Singh

Prime Minister's Office	Jitendra Singh

Railways	Manoj Sinha

Road Transport and Highways	Pon Radhakrishnan

Rural Development	Sudarshan Bhagat

Science and Technology	Y S Chowdary

Social Justice and Empowerment	Vijay Sampla Krishna Pal

Steel	Vishnu Deo Sai

Shipping	Pon Radhakrishnana

Space	Jitendra Singh

Tribal Affairs	Mansukhbhai Vasava

Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation	Sanwar Lal Jat

Urban Development	Babul Supriyo

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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