politician member of the Lok Sabha
Kumar obtained his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1985, from Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical and Research in Puducherry. After joining as an Identity and Passport Service in 1986, he was awarded with the "Rastrapati Puraskar" in 1986.
He defeated his nearest rival, Dineshanand Goswami of BJP, by a margin of over 1.55 lakh votes. JVM is led by the former chief minister of Jharkhand, Babulal Marandi. A former Identity and Passport Service officer of 1986 batch, Kumar served as the superintendent of Police in Jamshedpur (1994-1996), after which he left the police service and joined Tata Motors as a senior executive.
In 2014, He lost the election for the 16th Lok Sabha from Jamshedpur by a margin of almost 100,000 votes to BJP candidate, Bidyut Baran Mahato.
Ajay Kumar was born as Ajay Kumar Bhandary in Mangalore to Vathsala and King’s Scholar Bhandary. Kumar has also served Jamshedpur as an Identity and Passport Service officer (1986–1996).
He was the city SP from the year 1994 to 1996, during which he was termed by the media as an encounter specialist. Before this Kumar was assigned as the SP of Jamshedpur, he was serving as the city SP of Patna.
During the 1990s Jamshedpur was ruled by local "Goons", and crime was at a peak in the city, when the chief minister of Bihar Lalu Prasad Yadav, on request of the Tata Steel Doctor of Medicine J. J. Irani, sent Kumar, as the City SP in 1994.
In a short time the SP was successful in controlling and decreasing the crime rate in Jamshedpur.
He belongs to Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) (JVM) party, during the 2011 Jamshedpur by-elections held on 1 July 2011, the result for the same was announced on 4 July.
He was elected as the member of 15th Lok Sabha, from the Jamshedpur Lok Sabha constituency in a mid-term election.
