The Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance government that took oath on Thursday appointed Narendra Singh Tomar as the union minister of agriculture and farmer’s welfare. He also appointed as the Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj.
Narendra Singh Tomar, a three-time MP who was made to the Union Cabinet for the second time, has come a long way in politics after starting as a BJP youth wing leader in the early 80s.
It was Tomar who conducted the ceremony in the Central Hall of Parliament when Narendra Modi was unanimously elected by the NDA's constituent parties as their leader. Born on June 12, 1957, at Murar in Gwalior district, Tomar was president of the Gwalior unit of the BJP youth wing from 1980-84.
He was elected as a councilor in 1983, entered the Madhya Pradesh assembly in 1998 and served as a minister in the BJP government in the state from 2003-2007.
Later he was appointed as state BJP president. After a brief stint as a Rajya Sabha member, Tomar was elected to the Lok Sabha from Morena in 2009.
In 2014, he won the Lok Sabha election from Gwalior and was made a cabinet minister, heading several ministries including mines, steel, labour and employment and rural development and panchayati raj. He returned to Morena in the 2019 election, winning by a margin of over 1.13 lakh votes.
The agriculture minister post was earlier held by Radha Mohan Singh. Singh, who represented Purvi Champaran constituency in Bihar, was president of the BJP's state unit from 2006 to 2009. In 2019 general elections, he retained his seat, defeating Rashtriya Lok Samata Party’s Akash Kumar Singh by a margin of 293,648 votes.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won a landslide 303 seats out of the total of 543 while the opposition Congress party won just eight more seats than its abysmal 2014 performance. In all, BJP and its allies -- the NDA -- won 353 seats with the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance topped 92 seats.
With inputs from PTI.
First Published: May 31, 2019 1:22 PM IST
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