Ajit Singh, an engineer-turned-politician who drew strength from rural Uttar Pradesh
The Hindu
Ajit Singh, a computer engineer by training, was one of the first IITians to enter politics
Former Union Minister and chief of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) on Thursday in a hospital in Gurugram of COVID-19 complications. He had been admitted to hospital on April 20 and passed away on Thursday morning, according to a statement put out by his son, former MP Jayant Chaudhary. Mr. Ajit Singh, 82, a computer engineer by training, was one of the first IITians to enter politics, and became a Rajya Sabha member in after his father, former Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh fell ill. In his chequered political career, Mr. Ajit Singh’s political party and his alignments went through several avatars — from heading the Lok Dal (A) and the Janata Party in 1987 and 1988, before being general secretary of the Janata Dal in 1989 with V.P. Singh, he founded the RLD in 1998 and was Minister in the Vajpayee government from 2001-2003 and the Congress-led second United Progressive Alliance government till 2014 — but all political formations he headed or was part of saw him drawing strength from the rural hinterland of western Uttar Pradesh.
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