Ajoy Kumar, a former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, was elected as the MP in the 15th Lok Sabha, from the Jamshedpur Lok Sabha constituency. He is the AICC (All India Congress Committee) In-charge of 3 states namely the Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee, Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee, and Sikkim Pradesh Congress Committee. He is a member of the CWC (Congress Working Committee). He is also the National Spokesperson of the Indian National Congress. He was also the Former President of Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee.
Dr. Ajoy Kumar was born as Ajay Kumar Bhandary in Mangalore to Vathsala and K.S. Bhandary. His mother tongue is Tulu language. He did his schooling at Hyderabad Public School. 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 Kumar was assigned as the SP of Jamshedpur, and he was serving as the city SP of Patna.
He was elected as a member of 15th Lok Sabha, from the Jamshedpur Lok Sabha constituency in a mid-term election. He belongs to Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) (JVM) party, during the 2011 Jamshedpur by-elections held on 1 July 2011, the result for the same was announced on 4 July. He defeated his nearest rival, Dineshanand Goswami of the BJP, by a margin of over 1.55 lakh votes. JVM is led by the former chief minister of Jharkhand, Babulal Marandi. A former IPS officer of the 1986 batch, Kumar served as the superintendent of Police in Jamshedpur (1994–96), after which he left the police service and joined Tata Motors as a senior executive.
In 2014, he lost the election for the 16th Lok Sabha from Jamshedpur by a margin of almost 100,000 votes to BJP candidate, Bidyut Baran Mahato.
He joined Indian National Congress on 23 August 2014. After much speculation on the nomination for Member of Parliament of Rajya Sabha, he was appointed as the National Spokesperson for the Congress party on 26 September 2014.
He was appointed as president of the Congress party in Jharkhand (JPCC) on 16 November 2017.
He joined Aam Aadmi Party on 19 September 2019 in Delhi party headquarters in the presence of Senior Leaders of the Party Manish Sisodia, Saurabh Bharadwaj, and Durgesh Pathak. On 27 September 2020, Ajoy Kumar quits Aam Aadmi Party and rejoined Congress.
He was appointed as the AICC in charge of 3 North Eastern states (Tripura, Nagaland, Sikkim) in August 2021. He was subsequently appointed as a member of the Congress Working Committee.
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