Ajay Singh (Karnataka politician)

Ajay Singh
Member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly
In office
May 2013  till date
Constituency Jewargi
Personal details
Nationality India
Political party Indian National Congress
Spouse(s) Shwetha Singh
Relations Mr. Dharam Singh
Children 1 son, 1 daughter
Alma mater M.S Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore

Dr. Ajay Singh is the current Member of Legislative Assembly of the Jewargi Constituency, in office since May 2013. Born in Gulbarga, Dr. Ajay Singh pursued M.B.B.S (1992 Batch) from M.S Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore.

After completion of his M.B.B.S degree, he founded Accident Relief Care in Bangalore in 2000. The Accident Relief Care is a service-oriented organisation providing necessary insurance to the accident victims. Till date around 50000 accident victims got benefitted from his organisation all over India.

He got involved in social service activities from 2005 onwards. He organised the first health camp at Jewargi in 2005. The health camp is being organised every year at Jewargi from 2005 onwards. Around 30,000 people got benefitted from these health camps so far. He founded "Dharam Singh Foundation", an NGO organisation in the year 2007. "Dharam Singh foundation" provides free ambulance service to the Jewargi taluka people from 2007 onwards.[1] Presently there are 8 ambulances available round the clock for the service of Jewargi taluka people.

Dr. Ajay singh is a vivid sportsman. During his college life he regularly participated in volleyball and cricket. In tenpin bowling, he represented India at the Doha Asian Games, World Championships and Asian indoor meet. He also captained Karnataka to its maiden National tenpin bowling team title in 2007. Currently he is the vice-president of the Tenpin Bowling Federation (India).

He was the general secretary, Youth congress Karnataka from 1999 to 2009. He became KPCC member in the year 2005. In 2010, Gulbarga South by-election was held due to sudden demise of the sitting BJP MLA Chandrasekhar Patil Revnoor.[2] Dr. Ajay Singh took the challenge to fight the election from Congress in this unknown turf. He was defeated by the widow of the late MLA by a narrow margin.[3] He took the charge of election campaigning and management for his father, Mr. Dharam Singh, in the 2009 parliament election from Bidar. Mr. Dharam Singh won the election by 39619 votes. He led the Congress team in Jewargi Taluk in 2010 local body election. In the election, Congress won 4 Zila panchayat seats out of 6 available seats and 14 taluk panchayat seats out of 22 available seats. He became a unanimous choice of the MLA candidate in the 2013 assembly election. In 2013 assembly election of Karnataka, he defeated the sitting BJP MLA, Dodapagouda by 36700 votes from Jewargi.[4] This is the highest margin in the Gulbarga district and 3rd best margin in the overall hydrabad-karnataka region.

Personal life

Dr. Ajay Singh was born in Gulbarga, Karnataka, to Mr. Dharam Singh and Mrs. Prabhavathi. He completed M.B.B.S (1992 Batch) from M.S Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore. Dr. Ajay Singh is married to Shwetha Singh. The couple has a daughter Saina Singh and a son Arhaan Jai Singh.

Political career

Social Welfare

Sports Activities

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