Rajnath Singh, who currently serves as the Union Home Minister, is the top contender for the chief ministerial post in Uttar Pradesh. The Union Home Minister has served as Uttar Pradesh’s CM in past. However, a bigger responsibility will lie on his shoulders if he’s appointed the UP CM for one more time. Singh will be the man on a mission to fulfill big elections promises made to people by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party chief Amit Shah. Here are the three immediate reforms Rajnath Singh is capable of bringing in Uttar Pradesh:

 – Law & Order Situation

Rajnath Singh brings with him experience as country’s internal minister. Singh currently heads the Home Ministry which makes him in-charge of various central agencies taking care of country’s law & order situation. On the other hand, law & order situation in Uttar Pradesh has been the top agenda of Prime Minister Narendra Modi while running his extensive poll campaign in the state. The PM has the responsibility of fulfilling his vow. Here the Rajnath seems to be a very fit choice. If he is picked as UP CM by the leadership, police reforms and law & order will be at the top his chart.

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– Educational Reforms

Cheating and Copying in examination was one of the top issue raised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi while running an extensive campaign for Uttar Pradesh Assembly Polls.  Modi, while addressing a rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Gonda had accused CM Akhilesh Yadav of protecting and patronizing the “copying mafia” in the state which was harming the future of the youth.  “When I was thinking about speaking on the issue, I must honestly admit I was slightly scared as this topic heard on television by people in other parts of the country could give ideas to anti social elements to replicate the Sapa (Samajwadi Party) ka karobaar,” Modi had said receiving a thunderous response from the crowd.

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Rajnath Singh has been a champion in addressing this cause. When Singh became Education Minister in the first BJP government in the state of Uttar Pradesh in 1991, he introduced an Anti-Copying Act, 1992, which made copying a non-bailable offence. Major higlights of his tenure also included history texts and incorporating vedic mathematics into the syllabus.

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– Reservation Reforms

BJP President Amit Shah, while running the mammoth campaign in Uttar Pradesh, had accused Samajwadi Party of providing jobs to a certain community only. Shah had said that discrimination in job opportunities should end in the state. Here Rajnath shares a very positive history of works done in this direction. Singh, during his tenure as UP chief Minister, tried to rationalise the reservation structure in government jobs by introducing the most Backward Classes among the OBC and SC. The move was aimed take the benefit of reservation to the lowest status of Society.