Chaudhary Ajit Singh

Chaudhary Ajit Singh is a prominent Jat leader from Uttar Pradesh, India. He belongs to Rashtriya Lok Dal Party. He was born on 12 February 1939 in teotia gotra Jat family at village Bhadola in Meerut District of Uttar Pradesh. He is Son of former prime minister of India and Jat leader Choudhary Charan Singh.He is married to Radhika and has one son and two daughters. A Jat (also Jatt) is a member of a sub-ethnic group who live all over Northern India. ... Uttar Pradesh (Hindi: उत्तर प्रदेश, Urdu: اتر پردیش), also popularly known by its acronym UP, is the most populous and fifth largest state in the Union of India. ... February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Tewatia, Tewathia, Tebatiya, Tevatia or Teotia is clan or gotra found in Jats of Haryana, Rajasthan, Western Uttar Pradesh and Delhi in India. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Prime Minister of India is, in practice, the most powerful person in the government of India. ... Choudhary Charan Singh (23 December 1902 – 29 May 1987) was the fifth Prime Minister of the Republic of India, serving from 28 July 1979 until 14 January 1980. ...

Education

Ajit Singh did his Bsc, B Tech and MS from the Lucknow University, IIT Kharagpur and Illinois Institute of Technology,Chicago, USA. He has a special interest in agriculture and modern technology. He is a Profession Computer Scientist , Engineer. He worked in the computer industry in the US for 17 years. Kharagpur is a town in India. ... State Street Village, S.R. Crown Hall, Armour Main Building Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) is a private Ph. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... By the mid 20th century humans had achieved a level of technological mastery sufficient to leave the surface of the planet for the first time and explore space. ...

Entered Politics

Ajit Singh plunged into politics in the late eightees and was elected to Rajya Sabha in 1986. He was Secretary General of Janata Dal and was elected in 9th Lok Sabha. He was a Union Cabinet Minister from Dec. 1989 to Nov. 1990 Executive President Vice-President Prime Minister Dy. ... Janata Dal is an Indian political party which was formed through the merger one of the major Janata Party factions, the Lok Dal and a group of Congressmen led by V.P. Singh. ... Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house of Parliament of India. ...

Ajit Singh first entered Parliament as a Rajya Sabha member in 1986, and is a fourth time member of the Lok Sabha. He became a Union minister for the first time in 1989-90 when he was inducted into National Front government of Vishwanath Pratap Singh. He went on to become the food minister under the Congress government (1995-96) when P V Narasimha Rao was the prime minister. Singh formed his own faction of the Lok Dal called Lok Dal (Ajit) in 1987 and a year later merged it with the Janata Party of which he became the president. When Janata Dal was formed by a merger of the Janata Party, Lok Dal (B) and Jan Morcha, Singh was elected its secretary general. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1989 and re-elected in 1991. Vishwanath Pratap Singh (born 25 June 1931) was the seventh Prime Minister of the Republic of India. ... Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao (June 28, 1921 - December 23, 2004) was the ninth Prime Minister of the Republic of India. ...

In the mid-nineties, he moved to the Congress with a large slice of the Janata Dal MPs.After winning the 1996 Lok Sabha poll in 1996 on a Congress ticket, he left the party within a year to form the Bharatiya Kisan Kamgar Party. He resigned from the Lok Sabha membership and contested the by-election as a BKKP candidate in Baghpat, defeating his Samajwadi Party rival.

Singh lost the 1998 election to Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Som Pal but avenged the defeat in 1999 as an Rashtriya Lol Dal member. Singh won from the Bagpat constituency in 2004 elections.

Hobbies

His Favourite Pastime includes reading and music.

See also

• Teotia : For the gotra history of Chaudhary Ajit Singh