Rakesh Singh

Rakesh Singh (born 4 June 1962) is an Indian politician and member of the Bhartiya Janta Party. He is presently a member of the 16th Lok Sabha. He has been representing the Jabalpur constituency of Madhya Pradesh since 2004 general elections.

He has been appointed as the Chief Whip of Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) in Lok Sabha on 18 July 2016.

Shri Rakesh Singh upholds Co-Incharge (Sah Prabhari) of Maharashtra state as he has strong organizational skills.

He is working as the Parliamentary Standing Committee Chairman on Coal and Steel. He is also member of several parliamentary committees.

Besides these political activities, Shri Rakesh Singh is known for his social and public movement Jal Yatra whose aim was to bring awareness among common people for conservation and preservation of most valuable element water (Jal) in his constituency areas.

One of his another prominent social work campaign was prohibition and rejection of non-vegetarian food among common people, which influenced a lot.

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Members of the 16th Lok Sabha from Madhya Pradesh State
GE 2014	Bodh Singh Bhagat Jyoti Dhurve Bhagirath Prasad Alok Sanjar Kamal Nath Prahlad Singh Patel Manohar Untwal Savitri Thakur Jyotiraditya Scindia Narendra Singh Tomar Uday Pratap Singh Sumitra Mahajan Rakesh Singh Nagendra Singh Nandkumar Singh Chauhan Subhash Patel Faggan Singh Kulaste Sudhir Gupta Anoop Mishra Rodmal Nagar Dileep Singh Bhuria Janardan Mishra Laxmi Narayan Yadav Ganesh Singh Riti Pathak Dalpat Singh Paraste Dr Virendra Kumar Prof Chintamani Malviya Sushma Swaraj
15th LS members 17th LS members 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

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http://www.rakeshsingh.org

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	Satya Pal Malik Parsottambhai Rupala Prabhat Jha Vinay Sahasrabuddhe Renu Devi Dinesh Sharma Om Prakash Mathur Shyam Jaju Avinash Rai Khanna
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Spokespersons	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain M. J. Akbar Meenakshi Lekhi Sudhanshu Trivedi Bizay Sonkar Shastri Siddharth Nath Singh Nalin Kohli Shaina NC Sambit Patra Anil Baluni GVL Narsimha Rao Gopal Krishna Agarwal
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Others	Hindutva Integral humanism

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