Udit Raj
Udit Raj is an Indian politician and member of Indian National Congress. He was a Member of Parliament between 2014 to 2019 in the Lok Sabha, representing the North West Delhi as a member of BJP. Raj is also the National Chairman of the All India Confederation of SC/ST Organizations.
Raj was born in Ramnagar, Uttar Pradesh. He studied for BA at Allahabad University, and went on to study at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi in 1980. He was selected for the Indian Revenue Service in 1988 and served as the Deputy Commissioner, Joint Commissioner and Additional Commissioner of Income Tax at New Delhi. On 24 November 2003, he resigned from government service and formed the Indian Justice Party.
Raj joined the BJP on 23 February 2014. In the past he had opposed the BJP, but after getting a BJP ticket for Lok Sabha, he said that it was more sympathetic to the SC and ST communities and declared that the "Dalits have a brighter future in BJP". On being denied a ticket to contest for the 2019 Indian general election, Raj quit the BJP and joined the Congress, saying that the BJP "is against the interests of Dalits".
Raj, a Dalit, converted from Hinduism to Buddhism in 2001.
