New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) The union home ministry Tuesday got a new junior minister in little known Jitendra Singh, a Congress Lok Sabha MP from Rajasthan and one of the closest aides of party general secretary Rahul Gandhi.


The 41-year-old Congress leader was inducted in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's council of ministers after it was rejigged.

Singh replaces Gurudas Kamat as a minister of state for home affairs and will work under P. Chidambaram, who is among the top four ministers who remained untouched in Manmohan Singh's much awaited cabinet reshuffle.

He hails from the erstwhile royal family of Alwar, from where he was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2009.

His is the grandson of Tej Singh Prabhakar, the last ruler of Alwar.

One of the secretaries of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), he is among Rahul Gandhi's closest political aides.