Rashtriya Lok Dal

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Rashtriya Lok Dal
AbbreviationRLD
President Jayant Chaudhary [1]
Secretary Manisha Ahlawat
General SecretaryTrilok Tyagi (Organization)
Chandan Chauhan
Anil Dubey
Yashpal Baghel
Rajkumar Sangwan
Subhash Garg
Abdul Sagir Khan
Malook Nagar
Munshi Rampal
Sukhbir Singh Gathina
Anupam Mishra
Girish K Chaudhary
Rajendra Sharma
Qammer Rabbani Chechi
Lok Sabha  Leader Rajkumar Sangwan
Rajya Sabha  Leader Jayant Chaudhary
Founder Ajit Singh
Founded1996;29 years ago (1996)
Split from Janata Dal
Preceded by Lok Dal
HeadquartersAB 97, Shahjahan Road, New Delhi, 110011
Student wing Rashtriya Lokdal Student Wing
Youth wing Yuva Rashtriya Lokdal
Women's wing Nari Shakti Sangathan
Peasant's wingRashtriya Lokdal Farmer Cell
Ideology Secularism [2]
Regionalism [3]
Farmers Rights [4]
Political position Centre
Colours   White and Green
ECI Status Unrecognised party [5]
Alliance
Former Alliances
Seats in  Lok Sabha
2 / 543
Seats in  Rajya Sabha
1 / 245
Seats in  State Legislative Assemblie's
Seats in  State Legislative Councils
Number of states and union territories in government
2 / 31
Election symbol
Indian Election Symbol Hand Pump.png
Party flag
Rashtriya-Lok-Dal-620x413-1-620x400.jpg
Website
www.rashtriyalokdal.com

Rashtriya Lok Dal (abbreviated asRLD) is an Indian regional political party in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. It was founded by Chaudhary Ajit Singh, son of the former prime minister of India, Chaudhary Charan Singh in 1996 as a breakaway faction of the Janata Dal. [6] [7]

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History

Ajit Singh was re-elected in 1996 as a Congress candidate but resigned from the party and Lok Sabha. He then founded Bharatiya Kisan Kamgar Party and was re-elected from Baghpat in 1997 by-election. [8] [9]

In 1999, he relaunched his party with the name Rashtriya Lok Dal. [9] [10] While Singh lost the 1998 election and was re-elected in 1999, 2004 and 2009. From 2001 to 2003, he was Minister of Agriculture in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's government. [11] After his party joined the ruling United Progressive Alliance in 2011, he was Minister of Civil Aviation from December 2011 to May 2014. [12] [13] In 2019 Indian general election, he contested from Muzaffarnagar but lost to Sanjeev Balyan of BJP by a very small margin of 6526 votes. [12] [14]

RLD could not make any strong presence from 2014 to 2022, even losing its traditional seats. [15] [16] On the other hand, the party was able to win nine of 33 seats in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election which it contested in alliance with Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh which gave boost to the party life. [17] [18]

RLD party office bearers

Electoral history

Lok Sabha (Lower House)

TermIndian
General Election
Seats
contested
Seats
won
% of
votes
12th Lok Sabha 1998 80-
13th Lok Sabha 1999 720.37%
14th Lok Sabha 2004 1030.63%
15th Lok Sabha 2009 750.44%
16th Lok Sabha 2014 800.13%
17th Lok Sabha 2019 30 [19] 0.24%
18th Lok Sabha 2024 220.14%

Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha (Lower House)

Term
Assembly Election
Seats
contested
Seats
won
% of
votes
13th Legislative assembly19963882.13%
14th Legislative assembly200238142.65%
15th Legislative assembly2007254101.95%
16th Legislative assembly20124692.33%
17th legislative assembly201717111.71%
18th Legislative assembly20223392.85%

Legislative members

Rajyasabha members (MPs)

No.NameTerm in officeConstituency
1 Jayant Chaudhary 5 July 2022Incumbent Uttar Pradesh

Lok sabha members (MPs)

No.NameTerm in officeConstituency
1 Dr.Rajkumar Sangwan 4 June 2024Incumbent Baghpat
Uttar Pradesh
2 Chandan Singh Chauhan 4 June 2024Incumbent Bijnor
Uttar Pradesh

Vidhan sabha members (MLAs)

No.NameTerm in officeConstituencyState
1 Dr. Subhash Garg 11 December 2018Incumbent Bharatpur Rajasthan
2 Rajpal Singh Baliyan 10 March 2022Incumbent Budhana Uttar Pradesh
3 Persann Chaudhary 10 March 2022Incumbent Shamli
4 Dr. Ajay Kumar Tomar 10 March 2022Incumbent Chhaprauli
5 Pradeep Chaudhary "Guddu" 10 March 2022Incumbent Sadabad
6 Ghulam Mohammad 10 March 2022Incumbent Siwalkhas
7 Ashraf Ali Khan 10 March 2022Incumbent Thana Bhawan
8 Mithlesh Pal 23 November 2024 (by-election)Incumbent Meerapur
9 Anil Kumar 10 March 2022Incumbent Purqazi
10 Madan Bhaiya 6 November 2022 (by-election)Incumbent Khatauli

Vidhan parishad members (MLCs)

No.NameTerm in officeConstituencyState
1 Yogesh Choudhary 6 May 2024Incumbentelected by Legislative assembly member's Uttar Pradesh

List of ministers in union government

No. Photo Portfolio Name
(Lifespan)
Assumed office Left office Duration Constituency
(House)
Prime Minister
1 The Union Minister for Civil Aviation, Shri Ajit Singh holding a Press Conference, in New Delhi on June 01, 2012 (cropped).jpg Minister of Agriculture Chaudhary Ajit Singh
(19392021)
22 July
2001
24 May
2003
1 year, 306 days Baghpat
(Lok Sabha)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Minister of Civil Aviation 18 December
2011
26 May
2014
2 years, 159 days Manmohan Singh
2 Shri Jayant Singh Chaudhary.jpg Minister of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship
(MoS I/C)
Jayant Chaudhary
(1978)
10 June
2024
Incumbent1 year, 45 days Uttar Pradesh
(Rajya Sabha)
Narendra Modi
Minister of Education
(MoS)

List of ministers in state governments

1. Rajasthan

No.NameTerm in officePortfolioChief Minister
1 Subhash Garg 20182023
  • State Minister of Technical Education (I.C.)
  • Ayurveda & Indian Medicines (I.C.)
  • Public Grivences & Redressal (I.C.)
  • Minority Affairs Waqf
  • Colonisation Agriculture Command Area
  • Development & Water Utilisation
Ashok Gehlot

2. Uttar Pradesh

No.NameTerm in officePortfolioChief Minister
1 Anil Kumar 2024IncumbentCabinet Minister of Science & Technology Yogi Adityanath

State Leadership

The Rashtriya Lok Dal has state units in Jharkhand, Delhi, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and other states.

StateState President
Uttar PradeshRamashish Rai
Rajasthan Joginder Singh Awana
HaryanaJagjit Singh Sangwan
DelhiRajneesh Malik
JharkhandD P Lala
Jammu and KashmirDr. Zahoor Ahmad Sheikh
MaharashtraSudhir Raut
GujaratK. Praveen Singh Jadeja
UttarakhandRajendra Pant

See also

References

  1. "Jayant Chaudhary appointed new RLD president". The Economic Times.
  2. "Obituary: Ajit Singh Braved All Odds but Never Sacrificed His Secular Ideology". 11 January 2022.
  3. "Obituary: Ajit Singh Braved All Odds But Never Sacrificed His Secular Ideology". 11 January 2022.
  4. "RLD: SP, RLD release first list of 29, field 9 Jats & 9 Muslims | Uttar-Pradesh Election News - Times of India". The Times of India . 14 January 2022. Farmers Upliftment
  5. "Big blow to RLD from Election Commission, snatched the status of state level party Dated 10.04.2023". India: Patrika. 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  6. BKKP, RLD merge with Lok Dal
  7. "रालोद के अध्यक्ष चौधरी अजित सिंह का कोरोना से निधन, मेदांता अस्पताल में थे भर्ती". Zee News Hindi (in Hindi). 6 May 2021. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  8. "Ajit Singh". India Today. 2 May 2009. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  9. 1 2 "Explained: Jats and the BJP in Uttar Pradesh". The Indian Express. 29 January 2022. Archived from the original on 29 January 2022. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  10. Yadav, Nicholas (6 May 2021). "A Tribute To Chaudhary Ajit Singh". Outlook.
  11. Phadnis, Aditi. "The Jazz-Loving Politician With No Enemies". Rediff. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
  12. 1 2 "Ajit Singh: Age, Biography, Education, Wife, Caste, Net Worth & More - Oneindia". hindi.oneindia.com (in Hindi). Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  13. "RLD leader Ajit Singh sworn-in as Civil Aviation Minister". The Economic Times. 19 December 2011. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  14. "RLD Chief Ajit Singh Files Nomination from UP's Muzaffarnagar".
  15. "RLD's political journey comes full circle in 24 years of its existence". The Times of India. 13 April 2023. ISSN   0971-8257 . Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  16. Scroll Staff (24 May 2019). "2019 results: Ajit Singh and son Jayant Chaudhary of Rashtriya Lok Dal lose close contests in UP". Scroll.in. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  17. "Ties strained, RLD sends SP a signal: Wants 12 seats in LS polls". The Indian Express. 9 July 2023. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  18. "U.P. Assembly polls: RLD finds some of its lost mojo in west". The Hindu. 10 March 2022. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  19. "RLD undeterred by Lok Sabha results". The Economic Times. 26 May 2019. ISSN   0013-0389 . Retrieved 6 August 2023.