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{{Short description|Indian politician (1902–1977)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Ajit Prasad Jain
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|caption =
|order = 3rd
|office = Governor of Kerala
|1blankname = Chief Minister
|1namedata = ''Office Vacant''
|term_start = 2 April 1965
|term_end = 6 February 1966
|predecessor = [[V. V. Giri]]
|successor = [[Bhagwan Sahay]]
|office1 = 5th [[Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare|Minister of Agriculture]]
|primeminister1 = [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]
|term_start1 = 25 November 1954
|term_end1 = 24 August 1959
|predecessor1 = [[Rafi Ahmed Kidwai]]
|successor1 = [[S. K. Patil]]
|birth_date = {{birth-date|6 October 1902}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZLZVAAAAYAAJ&q=Ajit+Prasad+Jain+6+October+1902|title=Indian Parliamentary Companion: Who's who of Members of Lok Sabha|last1=Lok Sabha|first1=India. Parliament|year=2003}}</ref>
|death_date = {{d-da|2 January 1977|6 October 1902}}
|birth_place = [[Saharanpur]], [[United Provinces (India)|United Provinces]], [[British Raj|British India]]<br>''(Now in [[Uttar Pradesh]], India)''
|death_place =
|alma_mater = [[Lucknow University]]
|party = [[Indian National Congress]]
}}

'''Ajit Prasad Jain''' (6 October 1902 – 2 January 1977) was an Indian politician who served as the President of the [[Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee|U. P. Congress Committee]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Vijai Pratap Singh vs Ajit Prasad And Ors. on 20 September, 1965|url=http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/1030565/}}</ref> member of the [[Constituent Assembly of India|Constituent Assembly]],<ref>{{cite web|title=LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY|url=http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/constituent_assembly/constituent_assembly.asp}}</ref> Union minister and [[Governor of Kerala]] from [[Saharanpur]], in the state of [[Uttar Pradesh]], India.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?ei=tU-DTKPYA-OJOLaivcMO&ct=result&id=dm0AAAAAMAAJ&dq=Ajitprasad+Jain+Governor+of+kerala&q=Ajit+prasad+Jain+Governor+of+kerala#search_anchor Progressive Jains of India Satish Kumar Jain ,Shraman Sahitya Sansthan, 1975 -]</ref>

== Early life ==
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]]<ref>{{cite web|title=SM College Alumni|url=http://smcollegechandausi.org/alumni.html|access-date=27 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927205959/http://smcollegechandausi.org/alumni.html|archive-date=27 September 2013|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Soon after A.P. Jain was drawn to politics and joined the [[Indian National Congress]].

== Political career ==
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 (1937-1950)|United Provinces]].<ref>{{cite web|title=LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY|url=http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/constituent_assembly/constituent_assembly.asp}}</ref>
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 [[Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party|All India Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party]] owing to ideological differences with the then [[President of the Indian National Congress|Congress president]] [[Purushottam Das Tandon]], Jain handed in his resignation to Nehru in solidarity with Kidwai. Nehru however turned it down.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=7GAZay3vMVoC&pg=PA113&dq=Ajit+Prasad+Jain,+India's+Minister+for+Rehabilitation&hl=en&ei=V1eDTP-VEI6oOPTLtZQO&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CFMQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=jain&f=false Remembering Our Leaders: Bipin Chandra Pal by Anita Mahajan]</ref>

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]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in/STATISTICAL/kerala.htm |title=KERALA LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY |access-date=10 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090409223009/http://legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in/STATISTICAL/kerala.htm |archive-date=9 April 2009 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> 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]].

Later he was elected to the [[Rajya Sabha]] in 1967 and remained a member till 1975

He accepted the Chairmanship of the Irrigation Commission and the report of this commission remains a monumental work.

He was a member of the Zamidari Abolition Committee in UP and was instrumental in the drafting of Zamidari Abolition bill and in the plan to link the rivers of India. His far-slightness in this project and in the establishment of [[Green Revolution|green revolution]] led to the self-sufficiency of food in India.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=5Wrc1K0uJTgC&pg=PA61&dq=Ajit+Prasad+Jain,+India's+Minister+for+Rehabilitation&hl=en&ei=lWWDTLSzK5OkOJ7YmYIO&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CE4Q6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Ajai%20Prasad&f=false, Commissions and Omissions by Indian Prime Ministers: 1947–1980 By Janak Raj Jai]</ref>

He established Seva Nidhi Trust in Saharanpur & in Fatehpur in UP, India, which till date is running a house for destitutes, TB clinic & free eye camps. Additionally it gives out scholarship's to poor and needy students. These establishments are being by his son Dr K P Jain, a renowned doctor in Delhi (Ex chairman Ganga Ram Hospital).<ref>{{cite web|title=IBN Politics|url=http://ibnlive.in.com/politics/electionstats/candidate/Ajit%20Prasad%20Jain.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130126150324/http://ibnlive.in.com/politics/electionstats/candidate/Ajit%20Prasad%20Jain.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-01-26|publisher=IBN India}}</ref> Ajit Prasad Jain won the 1952 and 1957 Lok Sabha election as the Congress Party candidate from Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh) and from Tumkur (Karnataka) where he won in 1962.<ref>{{cite news|title=Two outsiders sent to Rajya Sabha from State|url=http://www.hindu.com/2004/06/29/stories/2004062907750400.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050126000026/http://www.hindu.com/2004/06/29/stories/2004062907750400.htm|url-status=dead|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=2004-06-29|archive-date=2005-01-26}}</ref>

He chaired the [[Uttar Pradesh Police]] Commission, looking into police reforms in the state, from 1960 and it submitted its report in 1961.<ref>{{cite web|title=State Police Commissions|url=http://www.humanrightsinitiative.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=35%3Apolice-reforms&id=778%3Astatepolicecommissions&Itemid=100|publisher=Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative}}</ref> His ''Shadow of the bear: The [[Indo-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation|Indo-Soviet treaty]]'' was published in 1971<ref>{{cite web|title=Shadow of the bear: The Indo-Soviet treaty |url=http://www.getcited.org/pub/101661958 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130414225642/http://www.getcited.org/pub/101661958 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-04-14 }}</ref> and ''[[Kashmir]]: what really happened'', based on his recollection of events that led to the arrest of [[Sheikh Abdullah]] in 1953, in 1972.<ref>{{cite news|title=The legacy of 1953 |url=http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2517/stories/20080829251707800.htm |newspaper=Frontline |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091118070942/http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2517/stories/20080829251707800.htm |archivedate=18 November 2009 }}</ref>

== Death ==
Ajit Prasad Jain died on 2 January 1977 at the age of 75.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=SXtDAAAAYAAJ&q=Ajit+Prasad+JAIN,+December+31,+1977&dq=Ajit+Prasad+JAIN,+December+31,+1977&hl=en&ei=A4aETOr1Go-mOMmr2MwO&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA Data India Press Institute of India, 1977, Page 32]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://niyamasabha.org/codes/ginfo_4.htm List of Kerala Governor]
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=mrLNEnirPfwC&pg=PA141&dq=Ajit+Prasad+Jain,+India's+Minister+for+Rehabilitation&hl=en&ei=V1eDTP-VEI6oOPTLtZQO&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CEUQ6AEwAw#v=snippet&q=Ajit%20Prasad&f=false The city of hope: the Faridabad story By L. C. Jain]

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* http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10689/11626/9/Chapter%204_221-273p.pdf

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