Giriraj Singh (English: Giriraj Singh, born- 8 September 1952, Lakhisarai, Bihar) is a politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a Member of Parliament in the seventeenth Lok Sabha of India. Earlier he was made the Minister of ‘Animal Husbandry, Dairy and Fisheries’, but after the expansion and reshuffle in the Modi cabinet on 7 July 2021, he has been made the ‘Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj’. In the 2014 elections, Giriraj Singh won from the Nawada seat of Bihar on a BJP ticket. He has also been a Minister of State at the Center.
Giriraj Singh was born on 8 September 1952 in Barhiya, Lakhisarai, Bihar. After completing his graduation, Giriraj Singh started a business in Begusarai by taking the agency of a pump set of a well-known company. It was here that he met BJP leader Kailashpati Mishra at a wedding ceremony. Inspired and encouraged by him, he joined the BJP and went to Patna in 1985-1986. There he joined the BJYM.
After being the organisational in-charge of Begusarai, Samastipur and Khagaria of BJYM, Giriraj Singh became the general secretary of the state BJYM team in 1990. According to BJP leaders Amarendra Kumar Amar, Vashishtha Narayan Singh, who worked with him in BJYM – “Giriraj Singh’s service and struggle has been related to Begusarai, so Begusarai is not only his karmabhoomi but also his political birthplace.”
Giriraj Singh became a minister in Narendra Modi’s cabinet. When Narendra Modi took oath as Prime Minister again, Giriraj Singh, MP from Bihar, also took oath as a cabinet minister. In the Lok Sabha elections, 2019, Giriraj Singh has been elected MP from Begusarai, Bihar. In 2014, he was elected MP from Nawada, Bihar. He had a close contest in Begusarai. Giriraj Singh defeated CPM candidate Kanhaiya Kumar. Giriraj Singh was the independent in-charge of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in the previous Modi government.
