Watch | Rashtriya Lok Dal Party Chief Ajit Singh Dies of COVID-19

Name: Watch | Rashtriya Lok Dal Party Chief Ajit Singh Dies of COVID-19 - The Wire
Uploaded: 2021-05-08T17:00:23+05:30
Channel: The Wire
Description: He was a seven-time member of parliament and had handled various portfolios as a Union minister in various governments.

He was a seven-time member of parliament and had handled various portfolios as a Union minister in various governments.

Yaqut Ali

He was a seven-time member of parliament and had handled various portfolios as a Union minister in various governments.

watch rashtriya lok dal party chief ajit singh dies of covid 19

Rashtriya Lok Dal chief and former union minister Ajit Singh passed away on Thursday, May 6, after losing battle to Covid-19. He was 82.

He was a seven-time member of parliament (MP) from Uttar Pradesh's Baghpat, and served as Union minister for civil aviation, agriculture, and food processing industries in different governments. He had served in the governments of V.P. Singh, P.V. Narasimha Rao, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh.

He was the son of former prime minister Chaudhary Charan Singh and had joined active politics in 1980. As a computer engineer, he worked with IBM in the US before returning to India in the 1980s to join politics.

This article went live on May eighth, two thousand twenty one, at zero minutes past five in the evening.

The Wire is now on WhatsApp. Follow our channel for sharp analysis and opinions on the latest developments.