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Janata Dal (United) abbreviated as JD(U) is a centre-left 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 and Arunachal Pradesh and is a part of government in Bihar. JD(U) heads the government in Bihar and is the second largest party in Arunanchal Pradesh. JD(U) won 16 seats in the 2019 Indian general election, making it the seventh largest party in the Lok Sabha. The party operates on the ideologies of socialism, secularism and integral humanism.
The Rashtriya Janata Dal is an Indian political party, based in the state of Bihar. The party was founded in 1997 by Lalu Prasad Yadav.
General elections were held in India in April–May 1996 to elect the members of the 11th Lok Sabha. The result of the election was a hung parliament, which would see three Prime Ministers in two years and force the country back to the polls in 1998. Atal Bihari Vajpayee of Bharatiya Janata Party, the single largest party to win this election, winning 67 more seats than previous 10th Lok Sabha, formed the government which lasted for only 13 days.
Shri Bashistha Narain Singh, a politician from Janata Dal (United). He is a Member of the Parliament of India representing Bihar in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He had served as Bihar state President of Janata Dal (United), the ruling party of the state. In January 2021, he was succeeded by Umesh Kushwaha to the post of Bihar state chief of JD (U). Previously, he was a member of Samata Party and was the President Bihar Samata Party from 1995 to 1998.
Pramila Bohidar is an Indian politician from the Biju Janata Dal party. She is a Member of the Parliament of India representing Orissa in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament.
Pyarimohan Mohapatra was a politician from the Odisha Jana Morcha as a member of the Parliament of India representing Odisha in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He was the political advisor of Naveen Patnaik. He started his career as an IAS officer and was principal secretary to Biju Patnaik. He was considered as the mastermind and the proxy leader of the Biju Janata Dal.
Smt Sushree Devi a politician from Biju Janata Dal is a Member of the Parliament of India representing Orissa in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament.
Elections in the state of Bihar, India are conducted in accordance with the Constitution of India. The Assembly of Bihar creates laws regarding the conduct of local body elections unilaterally while any changes by the state legislature to the conduct of state level elections need to be approved by the Parliament of India.
Virendra Verma was an Indian politician, born in Shamli, Uttar Pradesh. He served as the Governor of Punjab and the Administrator of Chandigarh (1990) as well as the Governor of Himachal Pradesh (1990–1993).
Daradahalli Byregowda Chandre Gowda, is a former Speaker of Karnataka Legislative Assembly, three-term MLA, one-term MLC, and Member of Parliament—three-term from Lok Sabha and one-term from Rajya sabha.
Rabinarayan Mohapatra is an Indian politician from the Biju Janata Dal party. He is a Member of the Parliament of India representing Orissa in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament.
Renubala Pradhan is an Indian politician from the Biju Janata Dal party. She is a Member of the Parliament of India representing Orissa in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament.
K. C. Tyagi is an Indian politician who is a former member of the Rajya Sabha representing of Bihar and serves as the Chief General Secretary and National Spokesperson of the Janata Dal (United). He was also the Chairman of the Parliamentary standing committee on The Industry.
Satya Prakash Malaviya was an Indian Politician and he was elected to the Upper House of Indian Parliament the Rajya Sabha in 1984 and 1990 from Uttar Pradesh as a member of the Janata Dal but rebelled and joined the Samajwadi Janata Party to become the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs in November 1990 till June 1991.
Saroj Dubey was an Indian politician. She was elected to the Lok Sabha the lower house of Indian Parliament from Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh in 1991 as a member of the Janata Dal. However, later after the break-up of the Janata Dal, She joined the Rashtriya Janata Dal and was a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India representing Bihar.
Sasmit Patra is an Indian politician and a member of the Biju Janata Dal. Since 28 June 2019, he is the member of the Parliament of India representing Odisha in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house and appointed as chief whip of the party. He is currently Spokesperson of Biju Janata Dal. He is an Indian Christian. His father was Swarupananda Patra, the former president of the Odisha Minority Forum (OMF).
Munna Khan, also known as Mujibulla Khan, is a member of parliament of India elected unopposed from Odisha on the ticket of Biju Janata Dal during 2020 Indian Rajya Sabha elections. He was one of the four new elect MPs of Biju Janata Dal elected unopposed since the major opposition party BJP refused to field any candidate from the state.