Ajay Singh Chautala (born 13 March 1961) is a former Indian MP and sports administrator. He is elder son of former

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and father of current Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana

Dushyant Chautala Dushyant Singh Chautala (born 3 April 1988) is a Jannayak Janta Party politician and current Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana. He is the president and co-founder of the Jannayak Janata Party. He represents Uchana Kalan constituency in Haryan ...

Biography

Ajay Singh Chautala is a son of

, a former

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, and a grandson of

Chaudhary Devi Lal Chaudhary Devi Lal (born Devi Dayal; 25 September 1915 – 6 April 2001) was an Indian statesman who served as 6th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1991 in the governments of V. P. Singh and Chandra Shekhar. Also popularly known as ...

, a former deputy prime minister of

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. He has two sons

, incumbent deputy chief minister of Haryana (youngest MP, Hisar Haryana 16th Lok Sabha) and Digvijay Chautala (national President N INSO). He did his B.A. from

Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra (KUK) is a university established on 11January 1956 in Kurukshetra, in the Indian state of Haryana, from the capital, Delhi. It is a member of Association of Commonwealth Universities. History The univer ...

, M.A. (Public Administration) and LL.B. from

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. He entered active politics in 1980s, became MLA from

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twice: first from Data Ram Garh (1989) and then from Nohar (1993). Ajay became MP, Lok Sabha from

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in 1999. He then became MP, Rajya Sabha from

in 2004. He then became MLA from

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in 2009. Later Ajay Singh's wife

Naina Singh Chautala Naina Singh Chautala is an Indian politician from Jannayak Janata Party and a member of Haryana Legislative Assembly from Badhra. Previously she was the member of Indian National Lok Dal and represented Dabwali in Haryana Legislative Asse ...

became MLA from Dabwali In 2014. Their son

was MP, Lok Sabha from Hisar from 2014 to 2019.

Conviction in Recruitment scam

In June 2008 Chautala and 53 others were charged in connection with the appointment of 3,206 junior basic teachers in the

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during 1999 and 2000. In January 2013 a New Delhi court sentenced Chautala and his father

to ten years' imprisonment under various provisions of the IPC and the

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. Chautala was found guilty of illegally recruiting over 3,000 teachers. A CBI investigation was ordered by the Supreme Court based on a writ filed by former director of primary education Sanjeev Kumar, a 1989 batch IAS officer. His and his father's sentences have been upheld by the

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and the Supreme Court.

References

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Jannayak Janata Party: Ajay Chautala faction unveils new partyThe Indian Express.
10 December 2018.

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Biography

Conviction in Recruitment scam

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