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Ajay Tamta | |
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| Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways | |
| Assumed office 11 June 2024 | |
| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Minister | Nitin Gadkari |
| Minister of State for Textiles | |
| In office 6 July 2016 – 24 May 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| Assumed office 16 May 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Pradeep Tamta |
| Constituency | Almora |
| Member ofUttarakhand Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 2007–2014 | |
| Preceded by | Pradeep Tamta |
| Succeeded by | Rekha Arya |
| Constituency | Someshwar |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1972-07-16)16 July 1972 (age 53) |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Political party |  Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Spouse | Sonal Tamta |
| Residence(s) | Almora,Uttarakhand |
| Occupation | Politician |
Ajay Tamta (born 16 July 1972) is a politician fromUttarakhand,India. He representsBharatiya Janata Party serving as aMinister of State in theMinistry of Road Transport and Highways.[1] He had also served asMinister of State forTextiles and isMember of Parliament (MP) fromAlmora constituency.
He contested 2009 Lok Sabha elections fromAlmora of Uttarakhand but lost.[2] He was elected as member ofUttarakhand Legislative Assembly fromSomeshwar,Almora in 2012 elections as a member ofBharatiya Janata Party.[3] He is the member of Lok Sabha since 2014.
In2024 Indian general election, he won again with the margin of 234097 votes from the Almora.
He started his political career by contesting in thedistrict panchayat and he became a district panchayat member in 1996, that same year he was also elected as the vice-president of the panchayat.
Tamta unsuccessfully campaigned as an independent in the 2002 Assembly elections for theSomeshwar seat. On the BJP banner, he ran again in 2007 and was able to obtain entry into theDehradun Assembly.
He fought the Lok Sabha elections for the first time in 2009, but he lost. 2012 marked his first legislative victory when he won from the Someshwar constituency.
He fought the Lok Sabha elections in 2014, which he won. In the Lok Sabha elections of 2019, he repeated his victory again.
Tamta was elected to the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly twice, first in 2007 and then again in 2012. Additionally, he has held positions in the Uttarakhand government as a Minister of State from 2007 to 2008 and as the Cabinet Minister from 2008 to 2009.
During the first Modi administration, he was the Union Minister of State for Textiles.[4]
| Election | Constituency | Party | Result | Votes % | Opposition Candidate | Opposition Party | Opposition vote % | Ref | ||
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| 2002 | Someshwar | Independent | Lost | 4.84% | Pradeep Tamta | INC | 34.39% | [5] | ||
| 2007 | Someshwar | BJP | Won | 46.00% | Pradeep Tamta | INC | 41.64% | [6] | ||
| 2012 | Someshwar | BJP | Won | 39.43% | Rekha Arya | Independent | 33.29% | [7] | ||
| 2014 | Almora | BJP | Won | 53.00% | Pradeep Tamta | INC | 38.44% | [8] | ||
| 2019 | Almora | BJP | Won | 64.03% | Pradeep Tamta | INC | 30.48% | [9] | ||
| 2024 | Almora | BJP | Won | 64.2% | Pradeep Tamta | INC | 29.18% | [10] | ||
