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| {{Short description|Indian politician}}
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| | image = File:The Union Minister for Civil Aviation, Shri Ajit Singh holding a Press Conference, in New Delhi on June 01, 2012.jpg
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| | caption = Singh in 2012
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| | birth_date = {{birth date |1939|2|12|df=y}}
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| | birth_place = [[Meerut]], [[United Provinces (1937–50)|United Provinces]], [[British India]]
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| | death_date = {{death date and age|2021|05|06|1939|2|12|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/rld-chief-ajit-singh-succumbs-to-covid/articleshow/82425914.cms | title=RLD chief Ajit Singh succumbs to Covid | publisher=[[The Times of India]] | work=Pankaj Shah | date=6 May 2021 | accessdate=6 May 2021}}</ref>
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| | death_place = [[Gurugram]], [[Haryana]], [[India]]
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| | father = [[Charan Singh]]
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| | mother = Gayatri Devi
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| | party = [[Rashtriya Lok Dal]]
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| |otherparty =[[Janata Dal]]
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| | office = [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha]]
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| | predecessor = [[Sompal Shastri]]
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| | successor = [[Satya Pal Singh (Uttar Pradesh politician)|Satyapal Singh]]
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| | term_start = 1999
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| | term_end = 2014
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| | constituency1= [[Baghpat (Lok Sabha constituency)|Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh]]
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| | parliament1 = India
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| | predecessor1 = [[Chaudhary Charan Singh]]
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| | successor1 = [[Sompal Shastri]]
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| | term_start1 = 1989
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| | term_end1 = 1998
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| | office2 = [[Ministry of Civil Aviation (India)|Minister of Civil Aviation]]
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| | primeminister2 = [[Manmohan Singh]]
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| | term_start2 = 18 December 2011
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| | term_end2 = 26 May 2014
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| | predecessor2 = [[Vayalar Ravi]]
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| | successor2 = [[Ashok Gajapathi Raju]]
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| | office3 = [[Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare|Union Minister of Agriculture]]
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| | primeminister3 = [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]
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| | term_start3 = 22 July 2001
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| | term_end3 = 24 May 2003
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| | predecessor3 = [[Nitish Kumar]]
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| | successor3 = [[Rajnath Singh]]
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| | office4 = [[Ministry of Food Processing Industries|Cabinet Minister for Food Processing Industries]]
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| | primeminister4 = [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]]
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| | term_start4 = February 1995
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| | term_end4 = May 1996
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| | predecessor4 = [[Tarun Gogoi]]
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| | successor4 = [[Dilip Ray]]
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| | office5 = [[Ministry of Commerce and Industry (India)|Minister of Commerce and Industry]]
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| | primeminister5 = [[V. P. Singh]]
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| | term_start5 = 5 December 1989
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| | term_end5 = 10 November 1990
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| | predecessor5 = [[Dinesh Singh (politician)|Dinesh Singh]]
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| | successor5 = [[Pranab Mukherjee]]
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| | alma_mater = [[IIT Kharagpur]]<br/>[[Illinois Institute of Technology]]
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| |spouse=Radhika Singh (m.1967)
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| |children=[[Jayant Chaudhary]]
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| '''Chaudhary Ajit Singh''' (12 February 1939 – 6 May 2021)<ref name="India Today Rashtriya Lok Dal chief and former Union minister Ajit Singh dies of Covid-19">{{cite news |title=Rashtriya Lok Dal chief and former Union minister Ajit Singh dies of Covid-19 |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/ajit-singh-rashtriya-lok-dal-covid-rld-union-minister-dies-1799361-2021-05-06 |access-date=6 May 2021 |work=India Today |language=en}}</ref> was an Indian politician. He was the founder and chief of the [[Rashtriya Lok Dal]], a political party recognized in western part of state of [[Uttar Pradesh]], and son of former [[Prime Minister of India]] late [[Charan Singh|Chaudhary Charan Singh]].<ref name=bio>{{Cite web |url=http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/Members/Biography.aspx?mpsno=14 |title=Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website |access-date=7 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201163047/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/Members/Biography.aspx?mpsno=14 |archive-date=1 February 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19860131-with-chaudhury-charan-singh-in-hospital-ajit-singh-likely-to-step-in-as-lok-dal-chief-800551-1986-01-31|title=With Chaudhury Charan Singh in hospital, Ajit Singh likely to step in as Lok Dal chief|work=India Today|access-date=8 September 2020}}</ref> He had tested positive for COVID-19 on 22 April 2021 and was admitted in a Gurugram hospital.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/ajit-singh-rashtriya-lok-dal-covid-rld-union-minister-dies-1799361-2021-05-06|title=Rashtriya Lok Dal chief and former Union minister Ajit Singh dies of Covid-19|work=India Today|access-date=6 May 2021}}</ref> He died on 6 May 2021 after his condition deteriorated.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/ajit-singh-dead-rashtriya-lok-dal-chief-covid-19-702802|title=Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Ajit Singh dies of Covid-19 at Gurugram hospital|work=India TV News|access-date=6 May 2021}}</ref>
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| ==Political career==
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| Chaudhary Ajit Singh was one of the most dynamic leaders of India, especially worked for Farmers and on economic condition of India. When Chaudhary Ajit Singh was Commerce and Industry Minister in [[Chandra Shekhar ministry|Chandra Shekhar government]], he drafted and tried to pass the bill against License Raj, in which was unsuccessful since most of the parties were against it. When Chandra Shekhar Government fell, [[P. V. Narasimha Rao|P.V Narasimha Rao]] and Finance Minister [[Manmohan Singh]] passed the same bill in the Parliament.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}} This bill was one of the major reform of Indian history better known as the Liberalization reforms of India, which opened the country for the Global market.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.thelallantop.com/kisse/political-kissa-of-rld-chief-chaudhary-ajit-singh-son-of-former-pm-chaudhary-charan-singh-who-was-an-iitian-but-later-joined-politics/ | title=Who was Chaudhary Ajit Singh | publisher=[[The Lallantop]] | work=Shaurya Kharb | date=6 May 2021 | accessdate=6 May 2021}}</ref> Ajit Singh was first elected to [[Rajya Sabha]] (the upper house of [[Indian Parliament]]) in 1986 after his father and former prime minister Charan Singh became ill. He was the President of Lok Dal (A) and [[Janata Party]] in 1987 and 1988. In 1989, he was General Secretary of [[Janata Dal]] after all the parties decided to merge under the leadership of VP Singh to take on the [[Indian National Congress]]. Ajit Singh brought in most political strength from Uttar Pradesh to [[Vishwanath Pratap Singh|VP Singh]] during that election.<ref name=bio /> At several occasions, Ajit Singh was a significant political figure in government formations as well as in alliances. One of the important movement was when Ajit Singh even threatened to leave the P.V. Narsimharao government because Manmohan Singh, the Finance Minister of India wanted to put the Indian farmers to also pay income tax, of which Chaudhary believed will destroy the Indian Farmers.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}}
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| He was elected to [[Lok Sabha]] (the lower house of [[Indian Parliament]]) from [[Baghpat (Lok Sabha constituency)|Baghpat]] in 1989. He was [[Ministry of Commerce and Industry (India)|Minister of Industry]] in V. P. Singh's [[V. P. Singh Ministry|cabinet]] from December 1989 to November 1990.<ref name=bio /> He was re-elected to Lok Sabha in [[1991 Indian general election]]. He served as Minister of Food in [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]]'s [[P. V. Narasimha Rao Ministry|cabinet]].<ref name=bio />
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| Ajit Singh was re-elected in 1996 as a Congress candidate but resigned from the party and Lok Sabha in 1996. He then founded [[Rashtriya Lok Dal]] and was re-elected in 1997 by-election. He lost the 1998 election and was re-elected in 1999, 2004 and 2009.
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| From 2001 to 2003, he was [[Minister of Agriculture (India)|Minister of Agriculture]] in [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]'s government.<ref name=bio />
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| After his party joined the ruling [[United Progressive Alliance]] in 2011, he was [[Ministry of Civil Aviation (India)|Minister of Civil Aviation]] from December 2011 to May 2014.<ref name=bio />
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| He was the candidate of [[Muzaffarnagar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Muzaffarnagar]] from [[Rashtriya Lok Dal|RLD]] and lost to [[Sanjeev Balyan]] of BJP by a margin of 6526 votes.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ajit Singh: Age, Biography, Education, Wife, Caste, Net Worth & More - Oneindia|url=https://hindi.oneindia.com/politicians/ajit-singh-35930.html|access-date=6 May 2021|website=hindi.oneindia.com|language=hi}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/rld-chief-ajit-singh-files-nomination-from-ups-muzaffarnagar-2012721|title = RLD Chief Ajit Singh Files Nomination from UP's Muzaffarnagar}}</ref>
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| ==Education==
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| He had a Bachelor of Technology (Mechanical Engineering) from [[IIT Kharagpur]] and M.S. from [[Illinois Institute of Technology]]. He was a computer scientist by profession and one of the first Indians to work with IBM in the 1960s.<ref name=bio />
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| ==Personal life==
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| He was married to Radhika Singh, and had one son and two daughters.<ref name=bio /> His son [[Jayant Chaudhary]], was a member of 15th Lok Sabha from [[Mathura (Lok Sabha constituency)|Mathura]], Uttar Pradesh.
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| == Death ==
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| Singh tested positive for [[COVID-19]] on 20 April 2021 and was admitted in a private hospital in [[Gurugram]].<ref name="The Economic Times Death news">{{cite news |title=Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Ajit Singh dies of COVID-19 |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/rashtriya-lok-dal-chief-ajit-singh-dies-of-covid-19/articleshow/82424615.cms |access-date=6 May 2021 |work=The Economic Times}}</ref> He died on 6 May 2021 after suffering from [[COVID-19]]. At the time of death, he was 82 years old.<ref name="India Today Rashtriya Lok Dal chief and former Union minister Ajit Singh dies of Covid-19" />
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| ==See also==
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| *[[Janata Dal (Ajit)]]
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| {{s-ttl|title=Member of Parliament<br />for [[Baghpat (Lok Sabha constituency)|Baghpat]] |years=1989 – 1998}}
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| {{s-ttl|title=Member of Parliament<br />for [[Baghpat (Lok Sabha constituency)|Baghpat]] |years=1999 – 2014}}
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| {{s-ttl|title=[[Ministry of Commerce and Industry (India)|Minister of Industry]]|years=5 December 1989 - 10 November 1990}}
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| {{s-ttl|title=[[Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare|Minister of Agriculture]]|years=2 July 2001 - 23 May 2003}}
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| {{s-ttl|title=[[Ministry of Civil Aviation (India)|Minister of Civil Aviation]]|years=8 December 2011 - 26 May 2014}}
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| ==External links==
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| * [https://web.archive.org/web/20130201163047/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/Members/Biography.aspx?mpsno=14 Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website]
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