Ajatshatru Singh

Ajatshatru Singh (born 6 February 1966) is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a former member of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council in the Government of Jammu and Kashmir. He was a member of the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference and was minister of state with portfolios of Tourism, Youth Services & Sports, Parks and Gardens, Science & Technology and Transport & Information in Farooq Abdullah's government from 1996 to 2002. He was also Member of Legislative Assembly from Nagrota constituency from 1996 to 2002.

He is a younger brother of senior Congress leader Vikramaditya Singh and son of former Sadr-e-Riyasat Karan Singh and Yasho Rajya Lakshmi, granddaughter of the last Rana Prime Minister of Nepal, Mohan Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana. He is also Trustee of J&K Dharmarth Trust which was founded by Maharaja Gulab Singh. His elder brother Vikramaditya Singh was a member of the Indian National Congress.

In November 2014, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in presence of party's President Amit Shah.

Electoral performance

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