Ajay Maken

Some Lesser Known Facts About Ajay Maken

• Ajay Maken’s father turned him down when he first stated his desire to become a politician because Ajay’s uncles were also politicians and had died young.

• His maternal grandfather, Jagat Ram, and his paternal grandfather, O. P. Maken, were Indian freedom fighters.

• His uncle Lalit Maken entered politics after his brother Satya Prakash Maken, a Metropolitan Councilor, was assassinated at the age of 26.

• Lalit Maken rose to prominence as a trade union leader and member of parliament. He was wed to Gitanjali, the daughter of India’s ninth president, Shankar Dayal Sharma. Amid accusations that he was involved in the 1984 Sikh riots, Maken and his wife were shot and killed in July 1985 outside their house in Kirti Nagar, Delhi,  by Harjinder Singh Jinda, Sukhdev Singh Sukha, and Ranjit Singh Gill, also known as Kukki.

• Ajay Maken entered active politics following the assassinations of Lalit Maken and his wife, Gitanjali.

• At the age of 39, Maken was the youngest Speaker in the Country, and in 2012, Ajay Maken became the youngest Union Cabinet Minister from the Congress Party for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (2012–13). ^[4]The Times of India

• Ajay Maken enjoys playing Cricket and golf in his leisure time.

• Ajay Maken is the director of the Non-government corporate firm Fortune IT Park Private Limited along with his wife and daughter.

• In November 2022, Ajay Maken resigned from the Congress Working Committee (CWC) as well as the AICC in charge of Rajasthan. According to Maken, he resigned as he failed to resolve the leadership tussle between Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot. On 20 August 2023, when Mallikarjun Kharge announced the new CWC, Ajay Maken was brought back as a member.