- Ajay Kumar
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Ajay Kumar Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha Incumbent Assumed office
July 2011Preceded by Arjun Munda Constituency Jamshedpur, Jharkhand Personal details Born 10 August 1962
Mangalore, Karnataka, IndiaPolitical party Jharkhand Vikas Morcha Spouse(s) Reena Arya (1988 - Present) Children 2 Residence Delhi,India Alma mater JIPMER, Pondichery Religion Hinduism As of 9 March, 2009 Ajay Kumar, a former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, was elected as the new MP (Member of Parliament) to the 15th Lok Sabha, from the Jamshedpur Lok Sabha constituency, for Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) (JVM) party, during the 2011 Jamshedpur by-elections. The by-election was held on 1 July 2011, and the result for the same was announced on 4 July. He defeated his nearest rival, Dineshanand Goswami of BJP, by a margin of over 1.55 lakh votes.[1][2][3] JVM is led by the former chief minister of Jharkand, Babulal Marandi. A former IPS officer of 1986 batch, Kumar served as the superintendent of Police in Jamshedpur (1994–96), after which he left the police service and joined Tata Motors as a senior executive.[1]
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Early Life
Bureaucratic Career
Kumar has also served Jamshedpur as an IPS officer (1986–1996). He was the city SP from the year 1994 to 1996, during which he was termed by the media as an encounter specialist. Before this Dr. Kumar was assigned as the SP of Jamshedpur, he was serving as the city SP of Patna. During the 1990s Jamshedpur was ruled by local "Goons", and crime was at a peak in the city, when the chief minister of Bihar Lalu Prasad Yadav, on request of the Tata Steel MD J. J. Irani, sent Kumar, as the City SP in 1994. In a short time the SP was successful in controlling and decreasing the crime rate in Jamshedpur.[4][5]
Political Career
Kumar obtained his MBBS, from (JIPMER) Pondicherry Medical College, in 1985. After joining as an IPS in 1986, he was awarded with the "Rastrapati Puraskar" in 1986.
As East Singhbhum SP, he weeded out crime. As Jamshedpur MP, he wants to stem corruption.
After catapulting himself to national politics with his phenomenal by-election victory, Ajay Kumar pledged honesty to the people of his constituency and said he would go the whole hog to ensure holistic development of both urban and rural pockets, leaving no scope for anomalies.
In his new avatar, the 49-year-old former supercop drew up an exhaustive to-do list on roads, ration cards, education and electricity, projects he means to take up “in the right earnest” during his short stint of two and a half years in Parliament.
For a man on the academic zenith with an MBBS degree from JIPMER, Pondicherry, and an MBA degree from Pondicherry University, it is little surprise that education too figured high on his priority list. Ajay Kumar promised to hold dialogues with corporate bigwigs for and persuade private cradles like Symbiosis, Kalinga Institute and Amity University to set up branches in the steel city.
References
- ^ a b JVM wrests Jamshedpur, state BJP chief resigns Indian Express, Jul 05 2011.
- ^ Tinsel town to steel city - for Dr Ajoy The Times of India, Jun 26, 2011.
- ^ Marandi's man wins Jamshedpur Lok Sabha seat, BJP loses deposit Economic Times, 5 July 2011.
- ^ Exploiting his stint as SP Patna to woo voters in Jamshedpur Bihar Times, 28 June 2011.
- ^ From Doc to MP-Dr Ajay kumar JUly 5, 2011.
6 ^http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110705/jsp/jharkhand/story_14198351.jsp
External links
- From Khaki to Khadi: BJP beaten by former IPS in Jamshedpur by-poll
- Jharkhand Vikas Morcha , Official website
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- People from Jamshedpur
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