Rashtriya Janata Dal

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Rashtriya Janata Dal
AbbreviationRJD
President Lalu Prasad Yadav
Chairman Tejashwi Yadav
Lok Sabha  Leader Abhay Kushwaha
Rajya Sabha  Leader Prem Chand Gupta
Founder
Founded5 July 1997(27 years ago) (1997-07-05)
Split from Janata Dal
Headquarters13, V. P. House, Rafi Marg, New Delhi, India-110001
Student wing Chhatra Rashtriya Janata Dal
Youth wing Yuva Rashtriya Janata Dal
Women's wing Mahila Rashtriya Janata Dal
Ideology
Political position Left-wing [5] [3]
Colours  Green
Slogan"Samaj Ka Bal, Rashtriya Janata Dal" "Bihar Ka Vishwas, Lalten Ka Prakash"
ECI StatusState party in Bihar
Alliance
Seats in  Lok Sabha
4 / 543
Seats in  Rajya Sabha
5 / 245
Seats in  State Legislative Assemblies
List
Bihar Legislative Assembly
Seats in  Bihar Legislative Council
14 / 75
Number of states and union territories in government
2 / 31
Election symbol
Indian Election Symbol Hurricane Lamp.png
Party flag
RJD Flag.svg
Website
rjd.co.in

The Rashtriya Janata Dal (abbreviated asRJD; translation: National People's Party) is an Indian political party, mainly based in the state of Bihar. The party was founded in 1997 by Lalu Prasad Yadav. [6] [7]

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The party's support base has traditionally been Other Backward Classes, Dalits and Muslims and it is considered a political champion of the lower castes. [8] In 2008, RJD received the status of recognized national level party following its performance in north-eastern states. [9] RJD was derecognised as a national party on 30 July 2010. [10] Leading the Mahagathbandhan alliance with 105 MLAs, it is currently the official opposition in Bihar. RJD is part of Ruling Government in Jharkhand and Kerala with its allies in Mahagathbandhan (Jharkhand) and LDF respectively. [11]

History

Formation

RJD Women's wing office in Delhi Mahilarjd.JPG
RJD Women's wing office in Delhi

On 5 July 1997, Pappu Yadav, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, Mohammad Shahabuddin, Abdul Bari Siddiqui, Kanti Singh, Mohammed Taslimuddin and Md Ali Ashraf Fatmi along with seventeen Lok Sabha MPs and eight Rajya Sabha MPs along with supporters gathered at New Delhi formed the new political party, Rashtriya Janata Dal. It was formed as breakaway of Janata Dal. Lalu Prasad was elected as the first president of RJD. It is a centre-left party.

In the March 1998 national elections, RJD won 17 Lok Sabha seats from Bihar but failed to make significant headway in any other state. Later that year, the party formed an alliance with Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party as an anti-Bharatiya Janata Party secular coalition but the coalition failed in garnering any widespread support.

In UPA

In the October 1999 elections, RJD fought the election in alliance with Indian National Congress but lost 10 Lok Sabha seats including the seat of Lalu Prasad Yadav.

In the 2000 state elections, however, it performed well, winning a majority of the seats in the state assembly in Bihar. Continuing its upswing in electoral fortunes, the party won 24 Lok Sabha seats in the 2004 elections that it fought in alliance with Indian National Congress. It was a part of Indian National Congress led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) from 2004 - May 2009, wherein Lalu Yadav held the position of the Minister of Railways.

In February 2005 Bihar Legislative Assembly election RJD won only 75 seats and lost the power. In the state elections held later that year – as a result of no party being able to form a government and RJD continued its downward slide winning only 54 seats.

In 2009 Indian general election, the RJD broke its alliance from UPA when seat sharing talks failed. RJD formed its alliance with Ram Vilas Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party and Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party what the media has dubbed the "Fourth Front". RJD performed poorly and won just four seats, all of them in Bihar. However, in 2010 Assembly election, the RJD did not continue their alliance with Samajwadi Party.

In the 2014 Indian general election, RJD came back to UPA and contested election in alliance with Indian National Congress and Nationalist Congress Party in Bihar. Out of 40 seats in Bihar, RJD will contest on 27 seats, INC on 12 and NCP on one. RJD won only four out of total forty Loksabha seats in Bihar. [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]

Organisation

The party leadership consists of the following bodies.

National President

Lalu Prasad Yadav is the National President of RJD.

National Vice President

The national vice president members of the party Mangani Lal Mandal, Mohammad Ilyas Hussain, Ahmed Ashfaq Karim, Rabri Devi, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, Shivanand Tiwary and Mehboob Ali Kaiser

National Secretary general: Abdul Bari Siddiqui.

National Treasurer: Sunil Kumar Singh [17]

Political Affairs Committee

National Executive Committee

The national executive members of the party Lalu Prasad Yadav, Tejashwi Yadav, Tej Pratap Yadav, Misa Bharti, Prem Chandra Gupta, Manoj Jha, Abdul Bari Siddiqui and Ram Chandra Purve. [18]

The Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance) in Bihar

On 14 April 2015, the RJD, Janata Dal (United), Janata Dal (Secular), the Indian National Lok Dal, Samajwadi Party, and Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) announced that they would merge into a new national Janata Parivar alliance in order to oppose the BJP, thus breaking their long time alliance with the INC. [19] This would give the alliance 14 Lok Sabha seats and 30 Rajya Sabha seats.

On 7 May 2015, the RJD expelled Pappu Yadav for six years due to anti-RJD activities after speculation rose that he may join the Biju Janata Dal for the 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election but he formed a new party called Jan Adhikar Party. [20]

In November 2015, RJD won the elections as party became the single largest party with 80 followed by Janata Dal (United) with 71 seats, BJP with 53 seats and Congress with 27 seats. In terms of vote share, BJP came first with 24.4%, followed by RJD with 18.4% and JD (U) with 16.8% and Congress got 6.7%. Janata Dal (United)'s Nitish Kumar became the Chief Minister and Lalu's son Tejashwi Yadav became the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar.

In July 2017, following the corruption cases against Tejashwi Yadav, Nitish Kumar asked Yadav to resign from the cabinet, which was refused by RJD. In order to protect his clean image towards corruption, Nitish Kumar resigned on 26 July 2017, ending RJD's stake in Bihar government. What followed next was a coalition BJP and JDU as a result Nitish Kumar became the Chief Minister again whereas Sushil Modi, a prominent BJP leader became the Deputy Chief Minister. [21] [22] [23]

Alliance between Indian National Congress and the RJD factioned in October 2021, [24] [25] when Tejashwi gave tickets to candidates in Bihar By-elections, [26] where Congress was fixed to stand candidates. [27] [28]

In August 2022, the Mahagathbandhan, Janata Dal (United), Indian National Congress, Hindustan Awam Morcha and Left Front joined again to form 2/3rd Majority government in Bihar Legislative Assembly. [29]

In January 2024, Nitish Kumar left the Mahagathbandhan once again and joined hands with the BJP. He later became the chief minister once again.

Controversies and criticism

Mohammad Shahabuddin, a leader of RJD, has been involved in several criminal cases. Shahabuddin has been accused of several murders, be it of political rivals, or police officers. [30] Shahabuddin, through his lawyers, attempted to also intimidate the legal proceedings, which led to more criminal cases against him. [31]

During Lalu Prasad Yadav's tenure as Chief Minister, Bihar's law and order was at lowest, [32] [33] kidnapping was on rise and private armies mushroomed. [34] He was also criticized by opposition in the Shilpi-Gautam Murder case and the death of his daughter Ragini Yadav's friend, Abhishek Mishra, in mysterious circumstances. [35] [36]

An investigation in the land-for-jobs scam implicated Tejashwi Yadav and Rabri Devi, Lalu Prasad Yadav's son and wife, as well as in other corruption scandals. [37] Tejashwi Yadav allegedly threatened Central Bureau of Investigation agents who were investigating him in another corruption case. [38]

Electoral performance

Lok Sabha elections

Lok Sabha TermIndian
General election		Seats
contested		Seats
won		Votes Polled % of
votes		State (seats)Ref.
13th Lok Sabha 1999 61710,150,4922.79Bihar (7) [39]
14th Lok Sabha 2004 42249,384,1472.4Bihar (22) Jharkhand (2)
[39]
15th Lok Sabha 2009 4445,280,0841.3Bihar (4)
[39]
16th Lok Sabha 2014 3047,442,3131.4Bihar (4)
 [39]
17th Lok Sabha 2019 2106,631,5851.1N/A [39]
18th Lok Sabha 2024 2341,01,07,4021.57Bihar (4)

[40]

Bihar Vidhan Sabha (Lower House) Election

Vidhan Sabha TermAssembly ElectionsSeats ContestedSeats Won% of votes% of votes
in seats contested		Party VotesRef
11th Vidhan Sabha 2000 29312428.3431.2810,500,361 [41]
12th Vidhan Sabha 2005 February 2107125.0728.356,140,223 [42]
13th Vidhan Sabha 2005 October 1755423.4532.635,525,081 [43]
14th Vidhan Sabha 2010 1682218.8427.315,475,656 [44]
15th Vidhan Sabha 2015 1018018.444.356,995,509 [45]
16th Vidhan Sabha 2020 1447523.1138.969,738,855 [46]

Jharkhand Vidhan Sabha Election

Vidhan Sabha TermJharkhand Assembly ElectionsSeats ContestedSeats Won% of votesParty VotesRef
2nd Vidhan Sabha 2005 5178.48 [47]
3rd Vidhan Sabha 2009 5655.03517,324 [48]
4th Vidhan Sabha 2014 1903.13133,815 [49]
5th Vidhan Sabha 2019 712.75413,167 [50]

List of chief ministers

Chief ministers

No.NameTerm in officePartyAssembly (Election)
1 Lalu Prasad Yadav 10 March 199028 March 19955 years, 18 days Janata Dal Tenth Assembly
2 Lalu Prasad Yadav 4 April 199525 July 19972 years, 112 days Janata Dal Eleventh Assembly
3 Rabri Devi 25 July 199711 February 19991 year, 201 daysRashtriya Janata Dal Eleventh Assembly
4 Rabri Devi 9 March 19992 March 2000359 daysRashtriya Janata Dal Eleventh Assembly
5 Rabri Devi 11 March 20006 March 20054 years, 360 daysRashtriya Janata Dal Twelfth Assembly

Deputy chief ministers

No.NameTerm in officeAssembly (Election)
1. Tejashwi Yadav 26 November 201526 July 20171 year, 244 days 17th Bihar Assembly
2. Tejashwi Yadav 10 August 202228 January 20241 year, 171 days 18th Bihar Assembly

List of central ministers

No.PhotoPortfolioName
(Birth–Death)		Assumed officeLeft officeDurationConstituency
(House)		 Prime Minister
1 The Union Minister for Railways, Shri Lalu Prasad addressing the Media to announce a policy matter in New Delhi on September 12, 2004.jpg Minister of Railways Lalu Prasad Yadav
(born 1948)		23 May 200422 May 20094 years, 364 days Chapra
(Lok Sabha)		 Manmohan Singh
2 No image available.svg Minister of Company Affairs
[MoS(I/C)]		 Prem Chand Gupta
(born 1950)		23 May 200429 Jan 20061 year, 251 days Bihar
(Rajya Sabha)
Minister of Company Affairs 29 Jan 20069 May 20071 year, 100 days
Minister of Corporate Affairs 9 May 200722 May 20092 years, 13 days
3 Raghuvansh Prasad Singh (1).jpg Minister of Rural Development Raghuvansh Prasad Singh
(1946–2020)		23 May 200422 May 20094 years, 364 days Vaishali
(Lok Sabha)
4 The Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Agriculture, Dr. Akhilesh Prasad Singh addressing at the National Productivity Awards Ceremony for the Agriculture Sector, in New Delhi on May 24, 2007 (cropped).jpg Minister of Agriculture
(MoS)		 Akhilesh Prasad Singh
(born 1962)		 Motihari
(Lok Sabha)
Minister of Food and Civil Supplies, Consumer Affairs & Public Distribution
(MoS)
5 Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav (cropped).jpg Minister of Water Resources
(MoS)		 Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav
(born 1954)		23 May 20046 Nov 20051 year, 167 days Monghyr
(Lok Sabha)
24 Oct 200622 May 20092 years, 210 days
6 Kanti Singh in 2008 (cropped).jpg Minister of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
(MoS)		 Kanti Singh
(born 1957)		29 Jan 20066 Apr 20082 years, 68 days Arrah
(Lok Sabha)
Minister of Human Resource Development
(MoS)		23 May 200429 Jan 20061 year, 251 days
Minister of Tourism
(MoS)		6 Apr 200822 May 20091 year, 46 days
Minister of Culture
(MoS)
7 No image available.svg Minister of Human Resource Development
(MoS)		 Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi
(born 1956)		23 May 200422 May 20094 years, 364 days Darbhanga
(Lok Sabha)
8 The Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Agriculture, Shri Sharad Pawar delivering the keynote address at the Conference of State Ministers of Fisheries, in Delhi on February 24, 2007.jpg Minister of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
(MoS)		 Mohammed Taslimuddin
(1943–2017)		23 May 200425 May 20042 days Kishanganj
(Lok Sabha)
Minister of Agriculture
(MoS)		25 May 200422 May 20094 years, 362 days
Minister of Food and Civil Supplies, Consumer Affairs & Public Distribution
(MoS)

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