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Ajit Singh: A political leader who effortlessly changed hats

Ajit Singh cut his teeth on non-Congress politics, though he did steer his party into an alliance with the second Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) govt till 2014

Ajit Singh
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Arguably, his most controversial tenure was as civil aviation minister from 2011 to 2014

Aditi Phadnis New Delhi
A political leader who effortlessly changed hats he wore for Bharat and India, died today. Ajit Singh, 82, variously known as leader of farmers, Jats and representative of the area loosely known as western Uttar Pradesh, several-term union minister and a trained engineer from IIT who worked at IBM for a brief period, had been politically inactive in recent years. But he inherited a strong political legacy left behind by his father, former prime  minister Charan Singh, that he has bequeathed to his son, Jayant Choudhary, former MP from Mathura.

Ajit Singh cut his teeth on non-Congress politics, though he