Ajay Maken

Ajay Maken is a politician from the Indian National Congress party. He is the general secretary of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) and member of the Congress Working Committee (CWC).[1] He was formerly a minister in the Indian Cabinet of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh[2] and a minister in the Cabinet of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.

Ajay Maken
General Secretary of
AICC for Rajasthan
Assumed office
11 September 2020
Preceded byAvinash Pandey
Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
In office
28 October 2012 – 15 June 2013
Prime MinisterManmohan Singh
Preceded bySelja Kumari
Succeeded byGirija Vyas
Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Youth Affairs and Sports
In office
May 2011 – 28 October 2012
Prime MinisterManmohan Singh
Preceded byM. S. Gill
Succeeded byJitendra Singh
Minister of State for Home Affairs
In office
28 May 2009 – May 2011
Prime MinisterManmohan Singh
MinisterP. Chidambaram
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
13 May 2004 – 16 May 2014
Preceded byJagmohan
Succeeded byMeenakshi Lekhi
ConstituencyNew Delhi
Member of Delhi Legislative Assembly
In office
1993–2004
Preceded byconstituency created
Succeeded byRamesh Lamba
ConstituencyRajouri Garden
Personal details
Born (1964-01-12) 12 January 1964
New Delhi, India
Political partyIndian National Congress
Spouse(s)Radhika Maken
Children3
ResidenceNew Delhi
Alma materUniversity of Delhi
As of 16 September, 2006
Source:

He was twice elected as a Member of the Parliament of India, and three times to the Delhi Legislative Assembly.He was the President of Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee.[3]

Political career

Maken has been a two-time Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha from 2004-2014)[4] and three-time Member of Legislative Assembly of Delhi (from 1993-2004).

At the National level, Maken was the youngest Union Cabinet Minister from the Congress Party for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (2012–13),[5][6] Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Sports and Youth Affairs (2011–12),[7] Union Minister of State for Home Affairs (2009-2011),[8] Union Minister of State for Urban Development (2006-2007).[9]

At the State level, he was Speaker of Delhi Legislative Assembly (2003–04) [10] at the age of 39, Maken was the youngest Speaker in the Country, a Cabinet Minister of Power, Transport and Tourism (2001-2003) at the age of 37, the youngest till that time and Parliamentary Secretary to the Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit (1998-2001).

Maken was the first NSUI candidate in a direct election to be elected as the President of Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) in 1985,[11] the first B.Sc. Chemistry (Hons) final year student in this post.[3]

Lok Sabha

In the 2004 general election, Maken represented the Congress for the New Delhi constituency. He defeated a sitting Cabinet Minister, Jagmohan, from the Bharatiya Janata Party.[12]

In the 2009 general elections, he retained the New Delhi Parliamentary constituency. He was appointed as the Minister of State for Home Affairs.

In 2011, Maken was appointed the Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs[13] after the 2010 Commonwealth Games scam, replacing M. S. Gill as Sports Minister.[14]

He was appointed as Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (I/C) in 2012.[15]

Maken was defeated in the 2014 general elections by the BJP candidate Meenakshi Lekhi. He served as the Congress General Secretary until 2015, when he resigned after the party's failure to win any seat in the 2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly election.[16]

Personal life

Maken is married and has three children. He received his education in St. Xavier's School, Delhi.[17]

References
  1. "Congress Appoints Ajay Maken As AICC General Secretary Of Rajasthan; Gehlot, Pilot Welcome Move". Outlook. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  2. "The Big Cabinet Reshuffle". NDTV.com. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  3. "Aiyar angers Hansarians". The Telegraph. Kolkota. 13 September 2011. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
  4. "Detailed Profile: Shri Ajay Maken". Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  5. "Achiever Maken moves up theLadder". Times Of India. 29 October 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  6. "Times Of India".
  7. "Know your ministers". NDTV.COM. 19 January 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  8. "Parliament Archives".
  9. "Archives Government of India".
  10. "Delhi Legislative Assembly".
  11. "Delhi University Beat News". 31 August 2017.
  12. "Confidence, killer instinct did the trick". The Times of India. 14 May 2004. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  13. "Cabinet Secretariat – Ministers of State (Independent Charge)(as on 18.12.2011)". Cabsec.nic.in. Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
  14. Mather, Nazrin (2 January 2018). "Can Rajyavardhan Rathore surpass Ajay Maken as India's best Sports Minister". thebridge.in.
  15. "Achiever Maken moves up the ladder". The Times of India. 19 October 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  16. "Delhi poll debacle: Ajay Maken takes responsibility, resigns as Congress General Secretary". deccanchronicle.com. 10 February 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  17. "Ajay Maken Biography - About family, political life, awards won, history". www.elections.in. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
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