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Place of Birth: Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
About Ajay Rai
- Ajay Rai is an Indian politician and a member of the Indian National Congress since 2012.
- He is a five-time MLA from Uttar Pradesh.
- He was the nominee of the Congress party for the Varanasi parliament seat in the 2014 general elections, but lost the elections.
- He is the nominee of the Congress party for the Varanasi parliament seat in the 2019 general elections.A local strongman in the Varanasi area, Rai has changed his party affiliations several times.
- He began his political career as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party's student wing.
- He won the Legislative Assembly elections from the Kolasla constituency three times in a row between 1996 and 2007 on a BJP ticket.
- He left the party after being denied a Lok Sabha ticket.
- He then joined the Samajwadi Party and unsuccessfully contested the 2009 Lok Sabha elections.
- Subsequently, he won the 2009 Legislative Assembly by-election from the Kolasla constituency as an independent.
- He joined the Indian National Congress in 2012.
- After the Kolasla constituency ceased to exist post-delimitation, he won the 2012 Assembly elections from the newly created Pindra constituency, which comprises a sizeable portion of the former Kolasla constituency.
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