Ajay Kumar
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Ajay Kumar, a former Indian Police Service
Indian Police Service
The Indian Police Service , simply known as Indian Police or IPS, is one of the three All India Services of the Government of India...

 (IPS) officer, was elected as the new MP (Member of Parliament) to the 15th Lok Sabha
15th Lok Sabha
Members of the 15th Lok Sabha were elected in 2009 during the General Elections in India.- Important members :* Speaker: Meira Kumar, Indian National Congress, Sasaram, Bihar...

, from the Jamshedpur
Jamshedpur (Lok Sabha constituency)
Jamshedpur Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 14 Lok Sabha constituencies in Jharkhand state in eastern India. This constituency covers the entire East Singhbhum district.-Assembly segments:...

 Lok Sabha
Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha or House of the People is the lower house of the Parliament of India. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by direct election under universal adult suffrage. As of 2009, there have been fifteen Lok Sabhas elected by the people of India...

 constituency, for Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik)
Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik)
The Jharkhand Vikas Morcha is a state political party in the state of Jharkhand , India . The party formed by former Jharkhand chief minister Babulal Marandi. The name of the party roughly translates to 'Jharkhand Progress Front '. The party's formation was announced by Marandi at Hazaribagh on...

 (JVM) party, during the 2011 Jamshedpur by-elections. The by-election was held on 1 July 2011, and the result for the same was announced on 4 July. He defeated his nearest rival, Dineshanand Goswami of BJP, by a margin of over 1.55 lakh votes.
JVM is led by the former chief minister of Jharkand, Babulal Marandi
Babulal Marandi
Babu Lal Marandi was the first Chief Minister of Jharkhand. He is the founder and national president of Jharkhand Vikas Morcha . He is the Member of Parliament from Koderma Lok Sabha constituency. He was the Minister of State, Forests & Environment, Govt...

. A former IPS officer of 1986 batch, Kumar served as the superintendent of Police in Jamshedpur (1994–96), after which he left the police service and joined Tata Motors
Tata Motors
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 as a senior executive.

Bureaucratic career

Kumar has also served Jamshedpur as an IPS officer (1986–1996). He was the city SP from the year 1994 to 1996, during which he was termed by the media as an encounter specialist. Before this Dr. Kumar was assigned as the SP of Jamshedpur, he was serving as the city SP of Patna. During the 1990s Jamshedpur was ruled by local "Goons", and crime was at a peak in the city, when the chief minister of Bihar
Bihar
Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....

 Lalu Prasad Yadav
Lalu Prasad Yadav
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, on request of the Tata Steel
Tata Steel
Tata Steel is a multinational steel company headquartered in Jamshedpur, India and part of Tata Group. It is the world's seventh-largest steel company, with an annual crude steel capacity of 31 million tonnes, and the largest private-sector steel company in India measured by domestic production...

 MD J. J. Irani, sent Kumar
Kumar
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, as the City SP in 1994. In a short time the SP was successful in controlling and decreasing the crime rate in Jamshedpur.

Political career

Kumar obtained his MBBS, from (JIPMER) Pondicherry Medical College, in 1985. After joining as an IPS in 1986, he was awarded with the "Rastrapati Puraskar" in 1986.

As East Singhbhum SP, he weeded out crime. As Jamshedpur MP, he wants to stem corruption.

After catapulting himself to national politics with his phenomenal by-election victory, Ajay Kumar pledged honesty to the people of his constituency and said he would go the whole hog to ensure holistic development of both urban and rural pockets, leaving no scope for anomalies.

In his new avatar, the 49-year-old former supercop drew up an exhaustive to-do list on roads, ration cards, education and electricity, projects he means to take up “in the right earnest” during his short stint of two and a half years in Parliament.

For a man on the academic zenith with an MBBS degree from JIPMER, Pondicherry, and an MBA degree from Pondicherry University, it is little surprise that education too figured high on his priority list. Ajay Kumar promised to hold dialogues with corporate bigwigs for and persuade private cradles like Symbiosis, Kalinga Institute and Amity University to set up branches in the steel city.

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