New Delhi: From an obscure Panchayat functionary to a Union Minister, it has been a spectacular political journey for Ajay Tamta.
Tamta, who would turn 44 on July 16, cut his teeth in politics as a member of district panchayat in his home state Uttarakhand and rose to become its vice president.
The induction of the Dalit leader from Almora comes at a time when BJP is promoting leaders of the Dalit and backward communities in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand where assembly polls are due early in 2017.
A first term member of the Lok Sabha, Tamta is a member of the Standing Committee on Human Resource Development (HRD) as also of the Consultative Committee in the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.
He was earlier a member of the Committee on Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
Earlier he was a minister in his home state between 2007 and 2009.
He had contested state assembly polls in 2002 as an independent but lost.
Tamta tried his luck at the hustings again in 2007 and won on BJP ticket.
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