Ajit Prasad Jain
| Ajit Prasad Jain | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 1902 Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Died | 2 January 1977 |
| Organization | Indian National Congress |
| Movement | Indian Independence movement |
Ajit Prasad Jain (1902–1977) was a former President of the U. P. Congress Committee, member of the Constituent Assembly, Union minister and Governor of Kerala from Saharanpur, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.
He was born in Meerut in 1902 in a middle-class family.
He graduated with Honours at the Lucknow University and also took his LL.B. He started his legal practice in 1926.He was an alumnus of the SM College, Chandausi
Soon after A.P. Jain was drawn to politics and joined the Indian National Congress. He took part in the Civil Disobedience Movement (1930) and all later Congress movements. He soon became prominent in U.P. politics. He became a member of the U.P. Congress working committee and also the Secretary of Provincial Congress Committee.
He was elected to the Constituent Assembly from the United Provinces. He was appointed a Parliamentary Secretary in the U.P. Government 1937 and remained in office till the resignation of the Ministry in 1939. He was a member of the All India Congress Committee for a long time.
He was a minister with cabinet rank in charge of the Ministry of Rehabilitation under Nehru following the constitution of the First Lok Sabha in 1952.
He subsequently held the portfolio of Union Minister for Food and Agriculture in Mr Nehru's cabinet from December 1954 to August 1959. He became President of the U.P. Congress Committee in May 1961.
When Rafi Ahmed Kidwai formed the All India Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party owing to ideological differences with the then Congress president Purushottam Das Tandon, Jain handed in his resignation to Nehru in solidarity with Kidwai. Nehru however turned it down.
He succeeded V V Giri as the third governor of Kerala serving from 2 April 1965 to 6 February 1966 during which time the state remained under President's rule. He resigned from the post of Governor to canvass support for Mrs Indira Gandhi for position of Prime Minister following the untimely death of Lal Bahadur Shastri. He belonged to the leftist section of the Congress and wanted to strengthen this section by opposing Morarji Desai.
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