Jannayak Janta Party

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Jannayak Janta Party
AbbreviationJJP
Leader Dushyant Chautala
President Ajay Singh Chautala
Secretary Digvijay Chautala
Founder Ajay Singh Chautala
Dushyant Chautala
Founded9 December 2018;5 years ago (2018-12-09),
Jind,
Haryana,
India
Split from Indian National Lok Dal
Headquarters18, Janpath, New Delhi
Student wing Indian National Students Organisation
Ideology Democratic socialism
Colours Yellow   Green  
ECI Status Recognized State Party
Alliance NDA (2019 – 2024)
Seats in  Lok Sabha
0 / 543
Seats in  Rajya Sabha
0 / 245
Seats in  Haryana Legislative Assembly
10 / 90
Number of states and union territories in government
0 / 31
Election symbol
Indian election symbol Key.svg
Website
www.jannayakjantaparty.com

The Jannayak Janta Party, abbreviated as, JJP is an Indian state-level political party in Haryana, India. JJP is a recognized state political party. JJP was founded on 9 December 2018 by Dushyant Chautala with the ideology of Devi Lal, who served as Deputy Prime Minister of India.

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Formation

JJP emerged from a split in the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) which itself had been cause by infighting among the Chautala family. [1] An INLD rally at Gohana in October 2018 had seen heckling of Abhay Chautala, a son of INLD leader Om Prakash Chautala for which Dushyant Chautala, a grandson, and his younger brother, Digvijay Chautala, were blamed.

When Dushyant and Digvijay were expelled from the INLD for allegedly permitting indiscipline at the rally, their father, Ajay Chautala, supported them and so he, too, was expelled from the INLD. [2] [3]

The JJP was formally launched at a rally in Jind in December 2018 by Dushyant Chautala [4] who held a seat in the Lok Sabha of the national Parliament of India, from when he was an INLD member.

He said that the party's name was in honour of Devi Lal, a former Deputy Prime Minister of India whose supporters in Haryana refer to him as Jan Nayak, and that the party intended to follow his principles.

Dushyant's father, Ajay, absent from the Jind rally, being at that time in jail in relation to an alleged scam, as also was Om Prakash Chautala. Despite now being in opposite political factions, and claiming that the JJP was standing for values which the INLD had abandoned, Dushyant nonetheless asked supporters at the rally to chant "Long Live OP Chautala". [2] [3]

Abhay Chautala who was leading the INLD in the absence of Om Prakash Chautala reacted to the news by saying that "Everybody is not capable of floating a political party and then continue with it". At least three INLD MLAs, including Dushyant's mother, Naina Singh Chautala were early members of the new JJP. [2]

JJP in their debut 2019 Haryana Legislative Assembly election won 10 seats and the party President Dushyant Chautala was appointed as the Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana on 25 October 2019.

Symbolism

The JJP has proposed a flag that is primarily green in colour, with a quarter in light yellow. Key is election symbol. JJP said the colours symbolise- Green was also adopted as a symbolic colour by Devi Lal, whose picture appears in the flag and Yellow symbolically represents 'Yuva Urja'. [2] [5]

Electoral Performance

Legislative Assembly elections

Election YearOverall votes % of overall votesseats contestedseats won+/- in seats+/- in vote shareSitting side
Haryana Legislative Assembly
2019 1,858,03314.808710New PartyNew PartyRight

(Government- BJP coalition)

List of Members of Legislative Assembly in Haryana

Elected MLAGenderConstituencyPartyRemarks
Naina Singh Chautala Female Badhra JJP
Jogi Ram Sihag Male Barwala JJP
Ishwar Singh Male Guhla JJP
Amarjeet Dhanda Male Julana JJP
Ram Kumar Gautam Male Narnaund JJP
Ram Niwas Male Narwana JJP
Ram Karan Male Shahbad JJP
Devender Singh Babli Male Tohana JJP
Dushyant Chautala Male Uchana JJP Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana
Anoop Dhanak Male Uklana JJP Minister of State, Government of Haryana.

State Minister

Haryana

till 12 March 2024.

S.NoNameConstituencyDepartmentParty
1. Dushyant Chautala Uchana Kalan
  • Revenue and Disaster Management.
  • Excise and Taxation.
  • Development and Panchayats.
  • Industries and Commerce.
  • Public Works (B&R).
  • Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs.
  • Labour and Employment.
  • Civil Aviation.
  • Rehabilitation.
  • Consolidation.
 JJP
2. Anoop Dhanak Uklana
  • Archaeology and Museums
    (Independent Charge)
  • Labour and Employment
    (Attached with the Deputy Chief Minister)
 JJP

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