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Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief and former union minister Ajit Singh passed away on Thursday (May 6) morning at a hospital in Gurugram due to COVID-19.
Updated : May 06, 2021, 09:36 AM IST | Edited by : Tanweer Azam
Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief and former union minister Ajit Singh passed away on Thursday (May 6) morning at a hospital in Gurugram due to COVID-19. He was 86.
Ajit Singh was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Gurugram after testing positive for coronavirus. According to reports, the RLD chief's condition deteriorated on Tuesday night due to a lung infection.
His son and former Mathura 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."
चौधरी साहब नहीं रहे!
— Jayant Chaudhary (@jayantrld) May 6, 2021
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Ajit Singh was the son of former Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh. He was a seven-time MP from Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh and also served as the Union Minister of Civil Aviation.
Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh expressed grief over Ajit Singh's demise and said that the late RLD chief was a true farmer leader.
चौधरी अजीत सिंह के निधन का समाचार बेहद पीड़ादायक हैं। अपने लम्बे सार्वजनिक जीवन में वे हमेशा जनता और ज़मीन से जुड़े रहे। साथ ही किसानों, मज़दूरों एवं अन्य निर्बल वर्गों के हितों के लिए संघर्ष भी करते रहे। उनके शोकाकुल परिवार और समर्थकों के प्रति मेरी संवेदनाएँ।ॐ शान्ति!
— Rajnath Singh (@rajnathsingh) May 6, 2021
Ajit Singh was an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. He was first elected to Rajya Sabha in 1986.