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Ajay Singh is an Indian politician and diplomat. ==Early life == Ajay Singh was born on 15 August 1950. His father Captain Captain Bhagwan Singh, IAS (Rtd) was born in village Jaingara, Kerawli Tehsil, District Agra in UP. After a distinguished career in the Army and the IAS (he belonged to the first batch of the Service), He retired as India's High Commissioner to Fiji, Tonga, Nauru and other Pacific Islands. His mother, Shanta Singh was born in Bharau village, Sadabad Tehsil, District Mathura in UP. He has three sisters. Abha Singh, married to Karan Pal Singh, Vibha Singh, married to Maharaj Digvijay Sinh of Wankaner in Gujarat and younger sister Shubha Singh married to Yatinder Kumar. While Abha is settled in USA, Shubha (who lives in New Delhi) is a prominent journalist and author. He is married to Shiromani Tiwari Singh, daughter of Shreedhar and Sumitra Maharaj of Fiji. She is a 3/4th generation Fiji Indian, born and brought up there. She came to India to do BA (Hons) in English Literature from Miranda House, Delhi University before returning to join the Fiji Civil Service as an officer. Her forefathers hailed from Dhakiya village, District Faizabad in Uttar Pradesh. He studied at Delhi's prestigious Modern School before graduating in English (Hons) Literature from St Stephens College, Delhi University in 1971. In school, he was adjudged the "Best Sportsman of the Year (1967) and captained the school hockey, swimming and water polo teams. He captained the College as well as the University swimming and water polo teams, participating in inter State and inter University championships from 1965 to 1971. He did his post graduate studies at the School of Journalism, University of Canterbury (1974), Christchurch, New Zealand and later worked as Publicity and Promotions Officer with Television One, Avalon, Lower Hutt, in Wellington. He returned to Fiji as Senior Sub Editor with The Fiji Times before coming back to India after five years at the end of December 1976. From 1977 to 1980, he worked as Assistant Editor Surya India (a monthly magazine), News editor India Today and Deputy Editor in charge of Morning Echo (an English tabloid daily of The Hindustan Times group). In 1980 he took over as Managing Trustee of the Kisan Trust and Editor-in Chief of its publications: Asli Bharat (Hindi Weekly newspaper), Asli Bharat (Urdu weekly magazine and Real India (English weekly magazine). These journals were Oppositionist papers devoted to espousing the cause of rural India, hence their names. The Hindi weekly newspaper (later converted into a monthly magazine) won a wide and devoted readership, particularly in rural areas of the Hindi heartland. As a monthly, it was acclaimed as one of the leaders in “alternative” journalism as opposed to the “mainstream”. As Managing Trustee of the Kisan Trust, he worked closely with veteran Socialist leaders Madhu Limaye and George Fernandes, Shri Biju Patnaik, Karpoori Thakur Bihar, Biju Patnaik (Orissa) and Mulayam Singh Yadav. His close colleagues were Sharad Yadav, Ram Vilas Paswan among others. They were all Trustees of the Trust and its chairman was Ch Charan Singh. Afte CHaran Singh’ death in 1987, all thes veteran leaders unanimously elected him Chairamn in his place. He was elected to the Legislative Council of Uttar Pradesh unopposed in 1986. In 1989 he won the Lok Sabha Parliamentary seat from Agra defeating a family that had held the seat since Independence. He served as Union Deputy Minister for Railways in Mr VP Singh’s government. He later served as Chairman of the Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (CCRT), an autonomous body with the Human Resources Ministry. Later as chairman, Governing Body of the Sri Aurobindo College, Delhi University. In 2005 he was appointed India’s High Commissioner to Fiji Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Cook Islands. A rare honour because his father had held the same post thirty years earlier. He served there till June 2007. Besides being a sportsperson, a journalist/editor of prominent journals, a member of UP’s Legislative Council, of the Lok Sabha, a Union Minister, an educationist, and a diplomat, Ajay Singh has been asked by elders of his community to head their organisations. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ajay Singh (diplomat)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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