Eye color: black
family and caste
Ajit Singh was born into a wealthy Jat family in western Uttar Pradesh. His clan was “Teotia” and his family was politically active.
parents and siblings
His father, Chaudhary Charan Singh, was a famous farmer leader who later became the fifth Prime Minister of India. Ajit’s mother Gayatri Devi was a member of the Legislative Assembly from Igrath (1974) in Aligarh constituency in Uttar Pradesh. Thereafter, she became the Lok Sabha MP from Kairana constituency in 1980. Ajit was the only son among his parents’ six children. The names of his sisters are Satyavati, Vedvati, Gyanvati, Saroj and Sharda.
Ajit Singh’s parents
Ajit Singh’s sisters and other family members
wife and children
Ajit Singh married Radhika Bishnoi on June 17, 1967. He has three children with her, including two daughters, Nidhi and Deepa, and a son, Jayant Chaudhary, who is a former MP from Mathura constituency (2009-2014).
Ajit Singh and wife Radhika
Ajit Singh and his son Jayant Singh
religion
He believes in Hinduism.
Ajit Singh performs religious rituals
address
He lives at 244/2, Shivaji Road, Meerut, 220001, Uttar Pradesh. Later he moved to 16 Green Avenu Chruch Road Basant Kunj New Delhi 110070.
sign
Ajit Singh’s signature
Profession
corporate sector
Ajit Singh received his bachelor’s degree in computer science from IIT Kharagpur. Later, he went abroad for further studies. He received his master’s degree in computer engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. After his studies, he joined IBM as a computer scientist and became one of the first Indians to work there in the 1960s. He worked there for nearly 17 years.
politics
When his father’s health deteriorated, Ajit Singh returned to India. Lok Dal is a political party founded by Ch. In the early 1980s, Charan Singh was on the fringes of a faction. Ajit Singh had returned from the United States at that time to maintain his family’s legacy in peasant politics. In 1986, he entered politics by joining the Lok Dal and serving as its general secretary. In the same year, he became a member of the Upper House of Parliament. After a long illness, his father died in 1987, but before his death, he appointed Ajit Singh as party president and Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna as acting president. This arrangement could not meet the demands of party members, and the number of party members began to decrease. In 1987, the Lok Dal split into two factions, the Lok Dal (A) led by Ajit Singh and the Lok Dal (B) led by Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna.
Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna takes oath
In 1988, Ajit decided to merge the Janata Party with the Janata Party and became the chairman of the newly formed Janata Party. The merger upset many party members and Ajit subsequently faced strong opposition in the 1989 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections. The PPP won that election. Vice President Singh proposed the appointment of Ajit Singh as minister and Mulayam Singh Yadav as deputy minister, but Mulayam rejected the proposal and proposed a vote to decide the leader of the winning party . In the voting, Mulayam Singh got 115 votes and Ajit got 110 votes. A 5-vote lead prevented Ajit from becoming the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. Later, he became a member of the lower house of parliament and Vice President Manmohan Singh installed him in the cabinet as industry minister; he served in the ministry from 1989 to 1990.
Vice President Singh and Ajit Singh
Ajit Singh, known for taking major steps to help sugarcane farmers in western Uttar Pradesh, had proposed reducing the circle distance between sugar mills from 25 km to 15 km. From 1989 to 2009, he won six general elections in the Baghpat constituency and served successively as Minister of Industry, Minister of Food, Minister of Agriculture, and Minister of Civil Aviation.
During his political career, Ajit Singh played a crucial role in forming alliances with different political parties to form a coalition government. He once said of the coalition government,
“पहलेगठबंधननीतियोंकेआधरपरबनतेथे, अबजरतिके आधरे र पर बनते है। हम इन जरति, धर्म, भषर की विविधतरओं को क म करने की कोशि श नहीं कररहे है बल्कि और बढ़ा कर अप फरयदर कर रहे है। ऐसे लोकतंत्र करमयब नहीं हो परी ै।”
Ajit Singh interacts with people
He has only lost two general elections, first in 1998 and second in 2014, both times by BJP candidates. After being defeated in 1998, he founded a new political party, Rashtriya Lok Dal, in 1999. The decision bore fruit and he won again from the Baghpat seat, joining Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s coalition government and serving as the agriculture minister in the cabinet. He introduced a credit-linked subsidy scheme to expand cold storage capacity, thereby boosting investment flows.
Ajit Singh and Atal Bihari Vajpayee
dispute
Verbal attacks on PM Modi
In the last few years of his active political life, he made headlines for his verbal attacks on Narendra Modi. In 2019, he launched a verbal attack on Narendra Modi, saying:
“Ye jhoot nahi Bolta… bas isne aaj tak sach nahi bola… Bacchon ko kehte hain sach bola kar, lekin iske ma baap ne nahi sikhaya… Mahilaon ka pakshdhar hai, teen talaq teen talaq… apni patni ko ek baar bhi talaq nahi bola aur chhodiya“
“Ye bhaiya itna hoshiyar aur shatir aadmi hai, agar is Sri Lanka chala jaata na, laut ke kehta Ravan ko Maine hi maara. Kyonki desh mein aur kisi ne toh kuch kiya hi nahi“
#watch RLD chief Ajit Singh on PM Modi: Ye jhoot nahi Bolta..bas isne aaj tak sach nahi bola.Bacchon ko kehte hain sach bola kar,lekin iske Ma baap ne nahi sikhaya.Mahilaon ka pakshdhar hai,teen talaq teen talaq..apni patni ko ek bal bi talaq nahi bora aur chowder dia (3.4.19) pic.twitter.com/K6kDMcKcmN
— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) April 4, 2019
assets and property
movable property
- Deposits with banks, financial institutions and non-banking financial companies: Rs 12,00,399
- Corporate bonds, debentures and shares: Rs 97,25,573
- Personal Loan/Advance: Rs 42,15,615
real estate
- Agricultural land: Rs 9,06,97,666
- Residential Building: Rs 6,02,39,000
Note: Estimates of movable and immovable assets are calculated based on 2019 data.
net worth
Ajit’s net worth for the financial year 2019-2020 is estimated to be Rs. 16,61,25,602.
die
COVID-19 has claimed the lives of many people around the world and Ajit Singh is one of them. He was admitted to the hospital due to complications from COVID-19 on April 20, 2021, and died on May 6, 2021.
चौधरी सहब नहींरहे! 🙏🏽 pic.twitter.com/7cnLkf0c6K
— Jayant Singh (@jayantrld) May 6, 2021
Facts/Trivia
- During his tenure as industries minister, Ajit Singh drafted a bill along with Amar Nath Verma (secretary, industry department). The bill was drafted to curb licensing rule, but the other parties in the coalition did not support it, so it was consigned to the bin. Later, Narasimha Rao passed the same bill in 1991 to introduce liberalization in the Indian economy.
- He is interested in everything to do with agriculture and technology.
- Ajit’s favorite pastimes are reading and listening to music.
- Ajit Singh often enjoys smoking hookah.
Ajit Singh enjoys shisha
Categories: Biography
Source: HIS Education