NEW DELHI: Rashtriya Lok Dal president Chaudhary Ajit Singh handed away on Thursday due to COVID-19. The stunning information of his loss of life was confirmed by his son Jayant Chaudhary.
Several prime political leaders, together with PM Narendra Modi, expressed their condolences of RKLD chief’s demise.
पूर्व केंद्रीय मंत्री चौधरी अजित सिंह जी के निधन से अत्यंत दुख हुआ है। वे हमेशा किसानों के हित में समर्पित रहे। उन्होंने केंद्र में कई विभागों की जिम्मेदारियों का कुशलतापूर्वक निर्वहन किया। शोक की इस घड़ी में मेरी संवेदनाएं उनके परिजनों और प्रशंसकों के साथ हैं। ओम शांति!
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 6, 2021
Chaudhary Ajit Singh had examined optimistic for COVID-19 on April 20 and was present process therapy at a Gurgaon hospital since then.
Ajit Singh’s situation worsened and he handed away on Thursday, his son and former MP Jayant Chaudhary wrote on Twitter.
“Chaudhary Ajit Singh Ji was diagnosed as Covid positive on April 20. He battled his condition till the very end and breathed his last today morning,” Jayant Chaudhary mentioned.
चौधरी साहब नहीं रहे!
pic.twitter.com/7cnLkf0c6K— Jayant Chaudhary (@jayantrld) May 6, 2021
A formidable farmers’ chief
The son of former Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh, Chaudhary Ajit Singh was a seven-time MP from Baghpat. He additionally served because the Union Minister of Civil Aviation.
Son of a formidable farmer chief Charan Singh, who helmed the nation for six months in 1979-1980, Ajit Singh labored 15 years within the laptop business within the United States earlier than he returned to the nation to inherit the political fief of his father within the affluent western Uttar Pradesh.
An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ajit Singh was first elected to Rajya Sabha in 1986.
The seven-time member of Lok Sabha, Ajit Singh, represented the household’s pocket borough of Baghpat within the Lower House of Parliament. His social gathering RLD wields affect in Jat-dominated western Uttar Pradesh.
