Narendra Singh Tomar is an Indian politician, senior member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, and three-term member of the Lok Sabha. He has served as a cabinet minister in various ministries including the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Ministry of Mines, and Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs in the Modi government.
Wiki/Biography
Narendra Singh Tomar was born on Wednesday, June 12, 1957, in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh (age 66; as of 2023). His zodiac sign is Gemini. He graduated from the Faculty of Arts, Mural Government College, Jiwaji University, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh in 1979-80 with a Bachelor’s degree.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′5″
Weight (approximately): 60kg
Hair color: gray
Eye color: black
family and caste
Narendra Singh Tomar belonged to a Rajput family in Gwalior.
Parents and siblings
Narendra Singh Tomar’s father’s name is Munshi Singh Tomar and his mother’s name is Sharda Devi Tomar. His sister Sharda Devi Tomar is an Indian politician.
Narendra Singh Tomar and his sister
In 2020, his younger brother Ajay Pratap Singh Tomar passed away due to cancer.
Narendra Singh Tomar and Ajay Pratap
wife and children
He married Kiran Tomar on December 6, 1976.
Narendra Singh Tomar and Kiran Tomar
He has two sons, the eldest son Devendra Pratap Singh Tomar and the younger son Prabal Pratap Singh Tomar. His daughter’s name is Nivedita Tomar.
Prabal, Nivedita and Devendra (left to right) at a family event
religion
Narendra Singh Tomar is a Hindu.
address
Permanent Address: B-144, Professor Colony, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
Current address: No. 24, Dr Rajendra Prasad Road, New Delhi
Signature/Autograph
Narendra Singh Tomar’s signature
Profession
hold party positions
Narendra Singh Tomar served as the president of Gwalior Janata Party Youth Forum from 1980 to 1984. In 1983, he served as councilor of the Gwalior Municipal Corporation in Madhya Pradesh. He served as the Chairman of BJPYF Madhya Pradesh for two years in 1984 and 1985. In 1986, he served as the national vice-president of the BJPYF Madhya Pradesh. In 2006, he became the state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Madhya Pradesh, ahead of Satyanarayan Jatiya.
member of legislative council
In 1998, Narendra Singh Tomar contested the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections from the Gwalior constituency on the name of the Bharatiya Janata Party and defeated his nearest rival A Ashok Kumar Sharma. In 2003, he was re-elected as Member of Parliament from Gwalior constituency and appointed as Cabinet Minister in the Government of Madhya Pradesh. In November 2023, he contested the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections from the Dimani constituency on the name of the Bharatiya Janata Party and defeated his nearest rival Balveer Singh Dandotiya by a margin of 24,461 votes.
Narendra Singh Tomar shared an Instagram post after winning the 2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections
member of parliament
In January 2009, he was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Madhya Pradesh constituency through a by-election; the Madhya Pradesh seat became vacant due to the death of Laxminarayan Sharma, who had held the seat earlier. In May 2009, he contested the Lok Sabha elections from Morena constituency on the ticket of the Bharatiya Janata Party and defeated Ramnivas Rawat of the Indian National Congress by 1,00,997 votes. Subsequently, he was re-elected to the 16th and 17th Lok Sabha from Gwalior and Morena constituencies in 2014 and 2019 respectively.
Narendra Singh Tomar attends political rally with Narendra Modi
Offices established
On December 8, 2003, he became the Cabinet Minister of the Government of Madhya Pradesh and served as the Rural Development and Panchayat Department, Public Relations Department, Fisheries Department, and Animal Husbandry Department. In May 2014, in the Modi government, Narendra Singh Tomar and Sis Ram Ola served as the Minister of Labor and Employment, Beni Prasad Beni Prasad Verma as Steel Minister and Dinsha Patel as Mines Minister.
Narendra Singh Tomar chairs Northeastern States Development Conference
In July 2016, he was appointed Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj. In July 2017, he concurrently served as the director of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. He assumed charge as the Mines Ministry on September 3, 2017, ahead of Piyush Goyal. In November 2018, he became Parliamentary Affairs Minister ahead of Ananth Kumar. He took charge as Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare on May 30, 2019, ahead of Radha Mohan Singh.
Narendra Singh Tomar presided over the meeting as Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
Following the resignation of Harsimrat Kaur Badal on September 18, 2020, he was appointed as Additional Director, Food Processing Industries Department.
dispute
Tomar and his son were involved in illegal transactions
In November 2023, a video of Narendra Singh Tomar and his eldest son Devendra Pratap Singh Tomar was A video of his son discussing multi-crore rupee deals involving some mining and land businessmen in Rajasthan and Mohali has gone viral on social media. The opposition has demanded that the Income Tax Department, CBI and Education Bureau investigate the matter to confirm the authenticity of the video.
ED, CBI, Income Tax जँच करें। इसमें भजपर प्रत्यरशी और केंद्रीय मंत ्री श्री नरेंद्र सि ंह तोमर जी के चिरंजीवी श्री देवेंद्र तोमर करोड़ों रुप ये के लेनदेन की बातची त करते प्रतीत हो रहे हैं।चुनात आचर संहितर के बीच ये करले धन की… pic.twitter.com/wR21DmruiH
— Piyush Babele ||पीयूषबबेले (@BabelePiyush) November 5, 2023
Later, Tomar claimed in a statement that his son had previously asked the police to investigate the “fake videos” and insisted that the CFSL agency investigate the videos to reveal the truth and “expose the conspiracy.”
पर मीडिया मीडिया एक कूट कूट मेरे मेरे से संबंधित वायरल गया। यह यह एक सुनियोजित है जो जो चुनाव स मय के को भ्रमित भ्रमित करने उद्देश्य लाया जारहा है है
— Narendra Singh Tomar (@nstomar) November 14, 2023
assets/property
movable property
- Deposits with banks, financial institutions and non-banking financial companies: Rs. 57,61,953
- Personal Loan/Advance: Rs. 61,89,000
real estate
- Non-agricultural land: Rs. 40,00,000
- Residential Building: Rs 38,00,000
Note: The movable and immovable property estimates given are based on 2019. Excludes assets owned by his wife and dependents.
net worth
Narendra Singh Tomar’s net worth in 2019 was estimated to be Rs. 14.5 Crores.
Note: Net worth does not include his wife and dependents.
Facts/Trivia
- His political career began as a student leader. In 1979, he was elected president of the Mural Students’ Union of Government College.
- In 2006, Babulal Gaur, the 16th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, gave him the nickname “Munna Bhaiya”.
- In his spare time, he enjoys watching movies and gardening.
- Narendra Singh Tomar stated that some of his major achievements in the fields of literature, art and science were organizing poetry conferences and encouraging artists.
- He enjoys participating in some social and cultural activities such as organizing social, spiritual and cultural events.
- According to Narendra Singh Tomar, some of the jobs that interest him are helping the poor and organizing blood donation camps.
- He is the president of Darpan Sports Sansthan in Gwalior.
- He likes to travel and has visited many countries such as Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.
- In July 2023, he was appointed as the convener of the State Election Commission for the 2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly polls.
Narendra Singh Tomar (left) along with Shivraj Singh Chouhan appointed as convener of the BJP Assembly Election Management Group
- On December 5, 2023, Narendra Singh Tomar resigned as Member of Parliament and from the Union Cabinet Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare after winning the Madhya Pradesh state assembly elections. He is also one of the contenders for the chief ministership of Madhya Pradesh.
- In May 2022, he was rated as one of the best-performing ministers in the Union Cabinet with a score of 6.83 according to the IANS-CVoter survey. This is mainly due to his advanced agricultural practices and record food production during his tenure as Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
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