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Career bureaucrat: Ajit Jogi
A career bureaucrat-turned politician, Congress spokesman Ajit Pramod Kumar Jogi was born on April 29, 1946 at village Pendra Road, Bilaspur in Madhya Pradesh.
A career bureaucrat-turned politician, Congress spokesman Ajit Pramod Kumar Jogi was born on April 29, 1946 at village Pendra Road, Bilaspur in Madhya Pradesh.
He was all set on a career of engineering and he studied BE (Mechanical) from Vikram University. A gold medallist, he went on to do his LLB from Delhi University.
He became a lecturer at Government Engineering College, Raipur in 1967 but the following year he got selected for the IPS. Jogi stayed in the police force till 1970 when he got selected for the IAS.
He has a record for being the longest serving District Magistrate for 12 years in the districts of Indore, Sidhi, Shahdol and Raipur. Several villages, roads and tanks in these areas have been named after him in recognition of his impressive development work. He was responsible for the formulation and implementation of the radical and popular Tendu Leaf Policy and submission and implementation of the Jogi Report on Welfare of SCs and STs.
But soon, this young bureaucrat’s dormant political ambitions erupted and he quit the IAS in 1986. As a student leader, he was president of the students union of Maulana Azad College of Technology, Bhopal and later of the student body of Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy of Administration (Mussourie).
He entered politics in the mid-1980s during the Rajiv Gandhi administration. All his past experience helped him and in 1987, he became the general secretary of the MP Congress Committee. As a member of All India Congress Committee, he was sent as a Congress observer for the Lok Sabha elections in Manipur in 1989 and assembly elections in Sikkim in 1985. He was also a member of the core group, AICC cell monitoring the 1996 Lok Sabha elections. Jogi was elected to the Rajya Sabha in June 1986 and was re-elected in 1992. In 1998, he was made the official spokesman of the Congress Party and is often seen addressing the media.
He has also been the chairman of the Madhya Pradesh Government Minor Forest Produce Committee, holding the rank of a Cabinet Minister, and was the chairman of State Government SC/ST Welfare Committee and Committee on Science and Technology. A member of the governing bodies of the Council of Indian Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, Lawrence School, Sanawar, he was a member of the Indian delegation to the United Nations 50th anniversary celebrations and addressed the General Assembly in 1996.
A sports lover, he was the President of the Madhya Pradesh Badminton Association and Madhya Pradesh Boat and Gliding Club and Cricket Club Indore. A winner of the Giants International Most Outstanding Man of the State Award in 1984, a soft spoken Jogi is a prolific writer. He has penned several poems and stories and has written articles on public administration. An outdoor person, he loves horse riding, gliding, swimming, yoga, trekking and the occult sciences.
He became a lecturer at Government Engineering College, Raipur in 1967 but the following year he got selected for the IPS. Jogi stayed in the police force till 1970 when he got selected for the IAS.
He has a record for being the longest serving District Magistrate for 12 years in the districts of Indore, Sidhi, Shahdol and Raipur. Several villages, roads and tanks in these areas have been named after him in recognition of his impressive development work. He was responsible for the formulation and implementation of the radical and popular Tendu Leaf Policy and submission and implementation of the Jogi Report on Welfare of SCs and STs.
But soon, this young bureaucrat’s dormant political ambitions erupted and he quit the IAS in 1986. As a student leader, he was president of the students union of Maulana Azad College of Technology, Bhopal and later of the student body of Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy of Administration (Mussourie).
He entered politics in the mid-1980s during the Rajiv Gandhi administration. All his past experience helped him and in 1987, he became the general secretary of the MP Congress Committee. As a member of All India Congress Committee, he was sent as a Congress observer for the Lok Sabha elections in Manipur in 1989 and assembly elections in Sikkim in 1985. He was also a member of the core group, AICC cell monitoring the 1996 Lok Sabha elections. Jogi was elected to the Rajya Sabha in June 1986 and was re-elected in 1992. In 1998, he was made the official spokesman of the Congress Party and is often seen addressing the media.
He has also been the chairman of the Madhya Pradesh Government Minor Forest Produce Committee, holding the rank of a Cabinet Minister, and was the chairman of State Government SC/ST Welfare Committee and Committee on Science and Technology. A member of the governing bodies of the Council of Indian Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, Lawrence School, Sanawar, he was a member of the Indian delegation to the United Nations 50th anniversary celebrations and addressed the General Assembly in 1996.
A sports lover, he was the President of the Madhya Pradesh Badminton Association and Madhya Pradesh Boat and Gliding Club and Cricket Club Indore. A winner of the Giants International Most Outstanding Man of the State Award in 1984, a soft spoken Jogi is a prolific writer. He has penned several poems and stories and has written articles on public administration. An outdoor person, he loves horse riding, gliding, swimming, yoga, trekking and the occult sciences.