Rashtriya Lok Dal

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Rashtriya Lok Dal
AbbreviationRLD
President Jayant Chaudhary [1]
Founder Ajit Singh
Founded1996;28 years ago (1996)
Split from Janata Dal
Preceded by Lok Dal
HeadquartersAB 97, Shahjahan Road, New Delhi, 110011
Youth wing Yuva Rashtriya Lokdal
Ideology Jats upliftment [2] [3]
Regionalism [4]
Farmers' rights [5]
ECI Status Unrecognised party [6]
AllianceCurrent
  • NDA (2024 - Present, 2009 - 2011)

Previously

Seats in  Lok Sabha
2 / 543
Seats in  Rajya Sabha
1 / 245
Seats in  State Legislative Assemblie's
Seats in  State Legislative Council's
Number of states and union territories in government
2 / 31
Election symbol
Indian Election Symbol Hand Pump.png
Party flag
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Website
www.rashtriyalokdal.com

Rashtriya Lok Dal (abbreviated as RLD) (translation: National People's Party) 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. [7] [8]

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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. [9] [10]

In 1999, he relaunched his party with the name Rashtriya Lok Dal. [10] [11] 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. [12] After his party joined the ruling United Progressive Alliance in 2011, he was Minister of Civil Aviation from December 2011 to May 2014. [13] [14] In 2019 Indian general election, he contested from Muzaffarnagar but lost to Sanjeev Balyan of BJP by a very small margin of 6526 votes. [13] [15]

RLD could not make any strong presence from 2014 to 2022, even losing its traditional seats. [16] [17] 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. [18] [19]

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 [20] 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 June 2024Incumbent Baghpat
Uttar Pradesh
2 Chandan Singh Chauhan June 2024Incumbent Bijnor
Uttar Pradesh

Vidhan sabha members (MLAs)

No.NameConstituencyState
1 Dr. Subhash Garg Bharatpur Rajasthan
2 Rajpal Singh Baliyan Budhana Uttar Pradesh
3 Persann Chaudhary Shamli
4 Chaudhary Ajay Kumar Tomar Chhaprauli
5 Pradeep Kumar Singh Sadabad
6 Ghulam Mohammad Siwalkhas
7 Ashraf Ali Khan Thana Bhawan
8 Mithlesh Pal Meerapur
9 Anil Kumar Purqazi
10 Madan Bhaiya Khatauli

Vidhan parishad members (MLCs)

No.NameConstituencyState
1 Yogesh Choudhary elected by Legislative assembly member's Uttar Pradesh

List of ministers in union government

No.NameTerm in officePortfolioPrime Minister
1 Chaudhary Ajit Singh 22 July 200124 May 2003 Minister of Agriculture Atal Bihari Vajpayee
18 December 201126 May 2014 Minister of Civil Aviation Manmohan Singh
2 Jayant Chaudhary 7 June 2024Incumbent Minister of State (Independent Charge) For Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
Government of India

Minister of State For Education
Government of India

Narendra Modi

List of ministers in state governments

1.Rajasthan

No.NameTerm in officePortfolioChief Minister
1 Subhash Garg 20182023State 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

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