Ajit Pramod Kumar Jogi was an Indian politician, who served as the first chief minister of the state of Chhattisgarh, India. He was a member of the Janta Congress Chhattisgarh political party.
During the run-up to the 2014 Lok Sabha election over the Mahasamund seat, eleven independent candidates all named Chandu Lal Sahu filed to run. At the time, Jogi's main contender was Chandu Lal Sahu of the BJP party. Sahu ultimately won the election only by small margin of 133 votes and Jogi was accused of planting those names to confuse voters.
1987–1989 General secretary, Pradesh-Congress Committee, Madhya Pradesh and also, member of committees on Public Undertakings, Industries, and Railways.
1989 Central Observer of the Indian National Congress for elections to Lok Sabha from constituencies in Manipur.
1995 Central Observer of the Indian National Congress for elections to Sikkim Assembly.
1998–99 Member, Committee on Human Resource Development and its Sub-Committee-II on Medical Education, Committee on Coal, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Coal
In June 2007, Jogi and his son were arrested in connection with the murder of Nationalist Congress Party treasurer Ram Avtar Jaggi, who was shot dead in June 2003. However, after five years of the registering of a case against him, Central Bureau of Investigation based on an opinion of then Additional Solicitor General of IndiaGopal Subramanian said that Jogi could not be prosecuted under any law. However the Bharatiya Janata Party alleged that the Congress led UPA government misused the Central Bureau of Investigation to protect Jogi. On 6 June 2016, Jogi announced he was breaking his affiliation with Indian National Congress at a political gathering in Chhattisgarh. In August 2019, a high-level judicial committee dismissed Jogi's claim of belonging to a Scheduled Tribe and canceled all his caste certificates. Jogi was booked under Indian Penal Code sections 420, 467, 468 and 471. Additionally, Jogi was accused of cheating and forgery in connection with the declaration in a poll affidavit submitted by him during the 2013 Assembly elections. Facing a first information report and arrests in the fake caste certificate case, Jogi was admitted to a private hospital in Delhi-NCR after he complained of breathing problem.
Death
Jogi died in the afternoon of Friday, 29 May 2020, aged 74. His son, Amit Jogi, confirmed the news on his official Twitter page. Jogi was admitted to hospital after a heart attack, which happened due to a tamarind seed which got stuck in his throat.
Janta Congress Chhattisgarh (J)
The Janta Congress Chhattisgarh political party was founded by Jogi, after he and his son Amit were expelled from the Indian National Congress due to anti-party activities as well as sabotaging an Antagarh by-poll elections. Amit was expelled for six years. Jogi launched a party in Thathapur village of Kawardha district and directly challenged Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Raman Singh. In February 2018, Jogi announced that he would contest the election from Rajnandgaon, and after some time he also announced that he would contest the election from Marvahi. On 29 April Jogi gathered more than 72000 people for rally on his birthday.
