Political fortunes of Ch Ajit Singh

[rkumar]

After sharing power with Mulayam Singh, Ch Ajit Singh is now pointing fingers and seeking aliance with congress. There is hardly a party with which he has not joined hands to share power. One wonders where his political future is heading to ? Can Ch Ajit Singh and congress win majority in UP elections to form government ? In my view I see no hopes for this combination in UP. I won't be surprised if Ch Ajit Singh looses few more assembly seats this time. Jats in western UP are once again at cross roads and many are even joing hands with BSP. Jats of western UP very badly need a bold leader who can bring back the lost glory we once enjoyed.

Rajendra

[chhillar]

Is ka te koi bharosa nahin...ke bera kitni party badal/nai bana ke marre ga....perfect example of aya ram gaya ram......

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
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.
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 (http://www.jatland.com/home/Bagpat) constituency in 2004 elections.

[kharub]

Jats of western UP very badly need a bold leader who can bring back the lost glory we once enjoyed.

Rajendra

Same is the State 'D Affairs of Jats everywhere ... its rather unfortunate , but its true

[vivek]

Unlike in Haryana, jats do not have the numbers in terms of votes to do anything by themselves in UP. What you hope for is that the other parties are divided enough that they will bid for your share of votes. This is the only way jats can wield power in UP. Ch. Ajit Singh is trying his best to play this 'powerbroker' game. He may not be good at it, but the other option is to have no power at all....and consequentially be useless to the jat community.

[ashwani]

Ch Ajit Singh has got his position and respect in the political circle as well as jat society diminished very much in the last 5-7 years. His withdrawing support from Mulayam was a very wrong decision. Not withdrawing support would have definetely helped him in the forthcoming UP elections. Further on with the increasing rift between the factions supporting jayant (Ajit Singh's son) and Anuradha Chaudhary, there is a likelyhood of more people from the community moving away from the party. As Mr Rajendra has rightly pointed out there are Jats from western U.P shifting towards BSP also. In the forthcoming elections atleast in the Khandla constituency Lok Dal candidate may face a tough fight with a local jat leader likely to fight with BSP ticket.

Futher Ajit Singh has never let any of the famous Jat leaders from western UP to come to the forefront and increase there popularity base. Apart from getting few sugar mills in the region the development of western UP was the slowest. Even during his tenure of cabinet minister he has not been able to push for the policies which could have brought some development in the region. He is extremely self centred and i believe does not have a vision for the party.

[pmalhan]

At this rate, soon Ch Ajit Singh may become A one man party. He needs to rebuild his party and promote other Jat leaders in Western UP.

[itsnavin]

From the very start of his political career, Ch Ajit Singh is making mistakes one after another. This is the latest one. If he wants to be a Jat leader of western UP, he needs to change his stance from "Thali ka baingan" to something concrete. He needs to work hard to unite Jats and try to make it's own platform to contest elections. Today...no one knows his party name. Keeping a bunch of MLAs and running from here to there won't benefit him in any sense. Overall, he's not a genuine politician. One day he coined the idea of Harit Pradesh but nothing hot is happening in this regard. Moreover, Harit Pradesh is not possible when SP is in power. But Ajit Singh has no choice because of his personality. No one takes him seriously...don't think he himself as well.

Any new good Jat leader who can unite western UP or Jats is desperately needed. So far this seems just a dream but who knows...

[rkumar]

There are major development related issues facing western UP, particulary north of DElhi side ares adjoining river Yamuna. One need not go too far to feel the effect. Roads entering Delhi at Loni are enough to tell the whole story of neglect. There is not a single township which can be anywhere near to national level. There is not a single leader who has ever rais4ed our issues in parliament. NCR regin in Haryana extends all the way to Panipat but ends near Baraut in UP. I am just wondering whom Ch Ajit Singh will join after the polls as congress is unlikely to form government in UP ? Won't he be available to anyone even after the polls? May be he will join even Mulayam Singh after the polls if there is a possibility of government formation?

RK^2

[mann123]

I think he is useless politician and i won't call him a Leader like Ch. Charan Singh. He got good political ancestory from his father, which he is not even able to retain.

He is not even have value for his own words made for "Harit Pardesh".

if we compare Chautala (who got politcal ancestory from Ch. Devi Lal) with him. he is not even near to him in maintaining the leadership, which they got from their respective fathers.

[saharan21]

CH. ajit singh is a leader without leadership qualities. I REMEMBER during last haryana assembly elections in 2005 he tried to enter into haryana politics just to challenge chautala.
i think its better for him if he gives his best to WESTERN UP which i think needed him more thn haryana or ANY other part of country.
he is nothing as compared to his father CH. CHARAN SINGH

[rkumar]

I am told that Ch. Ajit Singh's party is likely to get only 10-12 seats this time. His candidates are facing tough elections in almost all constituencies including Chaprauli. Can anyone give us more feed back on this topic?

RK^2

[raj2rif]

I am told that Ch. Ajit Singh's party is likely to get only 10-12 seats this time. His candidates are facing tough elections in almost all constituencies including Chaprauli. Can anyone give us more feed back on this topic?

RK^2

Dear Dr. Sahab,

Nice to see you back on site after a long time.

Your observations on Ch. Ajit Singh are good. Actually, I wonder for how long one can live on the parent's legacy.

I don't know how Ch. Ajit Singh has been able to sell his political moves to some fellows of the community. I wish he was consistent with his policies. I am sure he would have done much better than what he is today.

He needs to get to the issues of farmers if he wishes to garner support of the farmland. Unfortunately, he always preferred to be Industry Minister rather than agriculture minister when he was in power with various political parties. May be there was the money.

Ch. Ajit Singh lost once the MP seat. I hope he does not repeat that in MLA's election.

[mann123]

I think regardless of the result of this election if he concentrates on the agenda of "Harit Pradesh" he would be a leader of not only Jats in this region but also from other castes.

As I am living in this region for quiet sometime every caste have support for "Harit Pradesh" but they believe that political parties has used their sentiments regarding the same specially Ch. Ajit Singh's party.

In my opinion if the Ch. Ajit Singh make the "Harit Pradesh" on the top of his agenda honestly he can be undisputed CM for the newly carved state.

[gabbar]

Hi,
I just came back this sunday from India after casting my vote.I spent considerable time with 2 candidates Brijpal Tewatia(RLD) from muradnagar and Rajpal Tewatia(BSP) from modinagar.People in the area feels that it will be a very big thing for Ajit singh if he gets even 10 seats .There is no support for Harit pradesh atleast in these 3-4 districts near delhi.The most important thing which i noticed was that people are frustrated with all these political parties and their incompetent candidates(mostly).But they have no other option,so in the end it comes to caste and people say "Sab chor hai,jab chor ko hi vote dene hai to apni caste wale ko hi de do".During my visit i had an oppurtunity to meet the people of Bharat punarnirman dal (www.bharatpunarnirman.org). (http://www.bharatpunarnirman.org).) a new political party founded by professionals. they have put some candidates also.Lets see how they perform but they were getting very good response from the people.they are lacking in resourses but they had taken a initiative. let hope for the best