Rakesh Sinha

Rakesh Sinha is a Member of Rajya Sabha, Upper House of Parliament of India. He is currently serving as a member of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams Trust Board [1] and is also a member of Parliamentary Committee on Home affairs. He has authored several books including a biography of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh founder K B Hedgewar.[2] He has also been an associate professor at the University of Delhi.[3]

Rakesh Sinha
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
Assumed office
14 July 2018
Preceded bySachin Tendulkar
ConstituencyNominated (Literature)
Personal details
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
Alma materUniversity of Delhi (BA, MA, MPhil, PhD)
Websitewww.sinharakesh.in

He has frequently appeared in debates on national news channels.[4] His expertise and work on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has established him as an RSS ideologue within the Indian culture.[5] He is a believer of cultural nationalism and is affiliated to the right-wing politics of the country. He has also criticsed neo-liberal ideas at various forums.[6]

He was awarded Deendayal Upadhyay award from President Pranab Mukherjee on May 30. He donated the entire amount of the prize money.[7][8]

Early life and education

Sinha was born on 5 September 1964 [9] in village Manserpur in Begusarai district of Bihar [10] to parents Late Shri Bangali Singh and Late Shrimati Draupadi Devi.[11] His father was a freedom fighter.[12] He did his schooling from Netarhat Vidyalaya.[13]

Sinha pursued his BA (Hons), MA and PhD in Political Science from from University of Delhi where he was a gold medalist.[14][15] He has also been an associate professor at the University of Delhi.[16] He studied his M Phil on civil liberties movement (particularly those originating from Andhra Pradesh) and later pursued his PhD research on the organisational and ideological transformation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).[17]

Economic beliefs

Sinha believes that India has been hurt by the neoliberal economic reforms. According to him, India took a decisive turn for the worse with the advent of economic liberalisation in 1991, and Modi’s demonetisation policy is the first economic battle for the “truth”. In his own words, “black money took off with the neoliberal turn to the Indian economy in 1991.”[18]

Political career

Sinha is a nominated Member of Rajya Sabha , the Upper House of the Parliament of India since July 2018.[19][20] Sinha was also ICSSR Nominee to CSDS, Delhi.[21][22] In March 2020, Rakesh Sinha has also given a notice, seeking the Chairman’s (of Rajya Sabha) permission to move the resolution to drop the word “socialist” during the time allotted for Private Members’ Bill in March 2020 [23] Recently, Dr. Sinha has also criticised Romila Thapar stating that historians like her have “undervalued and consciously rejected many of the achievements of ancient India”. He further stated that she was guided by Marxism and had a Eurocentric view.[24]

Private member bills

Sinha has introduced 3 private member bills: population control, terminated employees welfare bill, public registry credit bill (to protect data).[25] The Terminated Employees (Welfare) Bill, 2020 was introduced on 7.02.2020 and intends to resolve the policy of employees being laid off due to change in management policies or the Government policies or due to the losses incurred as a result of an inefficient management.[26] The Public Credit Registry of India Bill, 2019 was introduced on 6.12.2019 with an objective to create a Public Credit Registry (i.e. a single data repository) where information on borrowings from banks, non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), corporate bonds or debentures from the market, external commercial borrowings (ECBs), foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs), Masala bonds, and inter-corporate borrowings can be available.[27][28]

Village Development and Women Safety

Dr. Sinha has also adopted Kongthong village in East Khasi Hills, and through the Seva Bharati, Meghalaya East Khasi Hills unit distributed sanitary pads and Dettol soap to the women of the village [29] He took this initiative after being inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Independence Day mention of his government's efforts to make sanitary pads widely available for women from poor background [30] Dr. Sinha has also raised concern about the women safety in parliament.[31]

Other positions

Sinha has also been nominated to several social, educational and cultural bodies like Member, Anjuman (Court) of Jamia Millia Islamia University;[32] Member, General Assembly of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations[33] and Member, Court of North-Eastern Hill University.[34]

Author and editor

Author

  • Terrorism and the Indian media : a comparative study of the approach of English, Hindi, and Urdu newspapers towards terrorism, New Delhi : India Policy Foundation, 2009, 163 p.
  • Deceptive equality : deconstructing the equal opportunity commission, New Delhi : India Policy Foundation, 2009, 70 p.
  • Hole in the bucket : examining Prevention of Communal & Targeted Violence Bill-2011, New Delhi : India Policy Foundation, 2011, 29 p.
  • Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, New Delhi : Publication Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 2015, 220 p.
  • Swaraj in ideas : quest for decolonisation of the Indian mind, New Delhi : India Policy Foundation, 2017, 42 p.
  • Understanding RSS, New Delhi : Har-Anand Publications Pvt Ltd, 2019, 228 p.

Editor

  • Secular India : politics of minorityism, New Delhi : Vitasta Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 2012, 250 p. Contributed articles by different authors edited by Sinha.
  • Is Hindu a dying race : a social and political perspective of Hindu reformers of early 20th century, New Delhi : Kautilya Books, 2016, 291 p. Three essays by Col. U.N. Mukherji, Swami Shraddhananda and R.B. Lalchand.
  • Communal fascism : the siege of Bengal's culture and plurality, New Delhi : India Policy Foundation, 2017, 50 p.

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  18. "No proof required: Deliver us from ideologues". 24 December 2016.
  19. "Sonal Mansingh, Ram Shakal among four nominated to RS". The Times of India. 14 July 2018. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
  20. "Rajya Sabha list of nominated members". Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  21. "Welcome to India Policy Foundation". www.indiapolicyfoundation.org.
  22. "Dr Rakesh Sinha". The Indian Express.
  23. "BJP Rajya Sabha member to move resolution for removal of 'socialism' from Constitution". 19 March 2020.
  24. "In the battle over India's history, Hindu nationalists square off against a respected historian". The Washington Post. 3 January 2021.
  25. "Private Bills keep BJP ideology alive in the RS".
  26. "BJP MP proposes Bill to support retrenched workers".
  27. "Rajya Sabha Parliamentary Bulletin" (PDF).
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  29. "MP kick-starts devp of his adopted village". 9 November 2020.
  30. "BJP MP adopts villages in Meghalaya, Bihar; sends soaps, sanitary pads". 1 September 2020.
  31. "Parliamentary panel questions Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra for failing to ensure women's safety". 18 December 2020.
  32. "Rajya Sabha Who's Who 2018" (PDF).
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  34. https://nehu.ac.in/The-Court. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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