AAP appoints Ajoy Kumar as national spokesperson

Kumar, a former chief of the Jharkhand unit of the Congress, had quit the grand old party last month after a fallout with other senior leaders.

Ajoy Kumar was on Friday appointed national spokesperson of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), a day after senior AAP leader and Delhi’s deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia announced his joining in a press conference at the party’s head office in central Delhi.

Former Jharkhand Congress president Ajoy Kumar (C), on Thursday, after joining the AAP in the presence of deputy CM Manish Sisodia (R) and MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj (L). (Sonu Kumar/ HT Photo)

Kumar, a former chief of the Jharkhand unit of the Congress, had quit the grand old party last month after a fallout with other senior leaders.

Kumar, 57, a former IPS officer, had joined politics in 2011 and won the Jamshedpur by-election as a candidate of the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha-Prajatantrik but he lost the seat in 2014.

The same year, he joined the Congress and was appointed the party’s Jharkhand unit chief in 2017.