Janata Dal (United),abbreviated as JD(U),is an Indian political party with political presence mainly in eastern and north-eastern India. JD(U) is recognised as a state party in the states of Bihar,Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur and is a part of government in Bihar. JD(U) heads the government in Bihar and has remained the second largest party in Manipur. JD(U) won 16 seats in the 2019 Indian general election,making it the seventh largest party in the Lok Sabha.
The Rashtriya Janata Dal is an Indian political party,based in the states of Bihar,Jharkhand and Kerala. The party was founded in 1997 by Lalu Prasad Yadav.
Nitish Kumar is an Indian politician,who is serving as Chief Minister of Bihar since 22 February 2015,having previous held the office from 2005 to 2014 and for a short period in 2000. The leader of the Janata Dal (United),previously he has also served as a Union Minister as the Samata Party member.
Mohammad Shahabuddin was a politician and former Member of Parliament from the Siwan constituency in the state of Bihar. He was a former member of the National Executive Committee of the Janata Dal and the Rashtriya Janata Dal. Shahabuddin was disqualified from contesting elections following his conviction for the kidnapping and disappearance of Chote Lal Gupta,an activist of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation for which he was serving a life sentence. He was also accused of killing 15 other Communist Party activists,including the former student leader Chandrashekhar Prasad.
Shyam Rajak is an Indian Leader from Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD),previously serving as the Minister for Industries in the Government of Bihar under Nitish Kumar. He has previously served as Minister for Food and Consumer Protection from 2010-2015 in the JD(U) Government. He has also served as Minister of State for Energy,Public Relations Department and Law in Bihar government in the RJD rule under Rabri Devi. He is whip for main opposition party in Bihar legislative Assembly.
The politics of Bihar,an eastern state of India,is dominated by regional political parties. As of 2021,the main political parties are Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD),Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),Janata Dal (United) (JDU),and Indian National Congress (INC). There are also some smaller regional parties,including Samata Party,Hindustani Awam Morcha,Jan Adhikar Party and Vikassheel Insaan Party,Lok Janshakti Party and Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party,which play a vital role in politics of state. As of 2022,Bihar is currently ruled by Mahagatbandhan (Grandalliance) coalition.
The voter turnout in 2000 assembly polls was 62.6%.
Dr. Abdul Ghafoor: was an Indian politician who served as Minister of Minority Welfare in government of Bihar from 20 November 2015 to 26 July 2017. He served as a member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly representing Mahishi vidhan sabha for 4 terms in 1995,2000,2010 and 2015. His political party was Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD).
Shivanand Tiwari is a prominent politician from Bhojpur district,Bihar who was a member and an officer of the Janata Dal (United) political party,which he represented in the Rajya Sabha. First he was a prominent leader and spokesperson of Lalu Prasad Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal party. Later he was the General Secretary and spokesman for the JD (U). On 27 February 2014 he was denied renomination to Rajya Sabha,and expelled from the Nitish's Janata faction along with four other Lok Sabha members of the party. After his stint with Nitish's Janata Dal (U),he re-joined Lalu Prasad Yadav's RJD.
Tejashwi Prasad Yadav is an Indian politician,former professional cricketer,and the current Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar,in office since August 2022. He also serves as the Minister of Health,Minister of Road Construction and Public Works Department,Minister of Urban Development and Housing as well as the Minister of Rural Works and Development and in the Bihar Government. Yadav leads the Rashtriya Janata Dal,the single largest political party in the state,and is the chairperson of the Mahagathbandhan alliance.
Chhedi Paswan is a former member of 16th Lok Sabha and a former member of Bihar Legislative Assembly. He represents the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since 2014. At various points,he has been with Janata Party,then its Charan Singh faction,then the reunited Janata Dal,Bahujan Samaj Party,Nationalist Congress Party,Lalu Prasad Yadav's RJD and Nitish Kumar's JD(U).
The Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD) was an unrecognized registered political party in India. It was nationally launched by Sharad Yadav and Ali Anwar in May 2018. The party was formed after Yadav parted ways from Janata Dal (United),due to its alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar. It merged with Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) on 20 March 2022.
Jitan Ram Manjhi is an Indian politician from the eastern state of Bihar who served as its 23rd Chief Minister from 20 May 2014 to 20 February 2015. He is President of Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM). Previously,he had served as minister for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes welfare in Nitish Kumar's cabinet. He has been a minister in several Bihar state governments,under multiple chief ministers like Chandrashekhar Singh,Bindeshwari Dubey,Satyendra Narayan Sinha,Jagannath Mishra,Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi.
The Legislative Assembly election was held over five-phases in Bihar through October–November 2015 before the end of the tenure of the prior Legislative Assembly of Bihar on 29 November 2015.
Anant Kumar Singh is an Indian politician and an MLA from the Mokama assembly constituency of Bihar. A former member of the Janata Dal (United) party,he joined Rashtriya Janata Dal in 2020. According to his election affidavit of 2020,he is facing 38 criminal charges including 7 murders,11 attempt-to-murder and 4 cases of kidnapping.
Tej Pratap Yadav(born 16 April 1988) is an Indian politician and cabinet minister of Environment,Forest &Climate Change Department in the Government of Bihar. He was MLA of Bihar Legislative Assembly from the Mahua constituency as a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) from 2015 to 2020.
Mahagathbandhan (MGB),also known as Grand Alliance,is a coalition of political parties in the Eastern state of Bihar in India,formed ahead of the 2015 Vidhan Sabha elections in Bihar. The alliance consists of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD),Janata Dal (United),Indian National Congress (INC) and Left parties including Communist Party of India (CPI),Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation-CPIML (Liberation) and Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM),with Nitish Kumar as the leader and Tejashwi Yadav as the chairperson. It is the ruling coalition government in Bihar.
Awadh Bihari Choudhary or Awadh Bihari Yadav is an Indian politician. He has been elected five times from Siwan constituency as a member of Janata Dal as well as Rashtriya Janata Dal. He is nominated as Bihar legislative speaker in August 2022 under Nitish Kumar-RJD led Mahagathbandhan. He is one of the most senior politicians in Rashtriya Janata Dal,also served as an Education Minister of Bihar in Rabri Devi government.
Ram Balak Mahto was the longest serving Advocate General of the state of Bihar and chief legal advisor of Nitish Kumar. From 1937 to date only 20 Advocate Generals have been appointed and out of these Mahto was appointed six times,becoming the longest serving Advocate general. He served both Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad Yadav led government and was first appointed to the post in the year 1980.
The Luv-Kush equation is a political term used in the context of the politics of Bihar,to denote the alliance of the agricultural Kurmi and the Koeri caste,which together constitutes approximately 15% of the state's population. The alliance of these two caste groups has remained the support base of Nitish Kumar,as against the MY equation of Lalu Prasad Yadav,which constitutes Muslims and the Yadavs. Caste consciousness and the quest for political representation largely drive the politics of Bihar. The political alliance of the Koeri and the Kurmi castes,termed the "Luv-Kush equation" was formed when a massive Kurmi Chetna Rally was organised by members of the Kurmi community in 1994 against the alleged casteist politics of Lalu Yadav,who was blamed by contemporary community leaders for promoting Yadavs in politics and administration.
