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Rashtriya Lok Dal
Political party in India
Political party in India
| Field | Value | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| party_name | Rashtriya Lok Dal | |||||||
| flag | Rashtriya-Lok-Dal-620x413-1-620x400.jpg | |||||||
| colorcode | ||||||||
| abbreviation | RLD | |||||||
| president | Jayant Chaudhary | |||||||
| foundation | ||||||||
| founder | Ajit Singh | |||||||
| headquarters | AB 97, Shahjahan Road, New Delhi, 110011 | |||||||
| eci | Unrecognised party | |||||||
| alliance | * National Alliance | |||||||
| loksabha_seats | ||||||||
| rajyasabha_seats | ||||||||
| state_seats_name | State Legislative Assemblies | |||||||
| state_seats | {{hidden | |||||||
| headerstyle | background:#ccccff | |||||||
| style | text-align:center; | (Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council) | ||||||
| (Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly) | ||||||||
| (Rajasthan Legislative Assembly)}} | ||||||||
| ideology | Secularism | |||||||
| Regionalism | ||||||||
| Farmers Rights | ||||||||
| website | www.rashtriyalokdal.com | |||||||
| symbol | [[File:Indian Election Symbol Hand Pump.png | 100px]] | ||||||
| predecessor | Lok Dal | |||||||
| colours | White and Green | |||||||
| split | Janata Dal | |||||||
| no_states | youth=Yuva Rashtriya Lokdal | |||||||
| https://www.patrika.com/bagpat-news/preparation-for-lok-sabha-elections-rashtriya-lok-dal-announced-list-of-state-executive-8511170 | Political position | Centre | loksabha_leader=Rajkumar Sangwan | rajyasabha_leader=Jayant Chaudhary | women=Nari Shakti Sangathan | students=Rashtriya Lokdal Student Wing | peasants=Rashtriya Lokdal Farmer Cell | general_secretary=Trilok Tyagi (Organization) |
| Chandan Chauhan | ||||||||
| Anil Dubey <br> Yashpal Baghel <br>Rajkumar Sangwan<br>Subhash Garg<br> Abdul Sagir Khan <br> Malook Nagar <br> Munshi Rampal<br> Sukhbir Singh Gathina<br> Anupam Mishra<br> Girish K Chaudhary<br>Rajendra Sharma<br> Qammer Rabbani Chechi | secretary | Manisha Ahlawat |
|Politica
- National Democratic Alliance (1999-2003) (2009-2011) (2024–present)
- United Progressive Alliance (National) (2011–2014)
- Samajwadi Alliance (Uttar Pradesh) (2003-2007) (2018-2024)}} | List (Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly) (Rajasthan Legislative Assembly)}} Regionalism Farmers Rights
||https://www.patrika.com/bagpat-news/preparation-for-lok-sabha-elections-rashtriya-lok-dal-announced-list-of-state-executive-8511170|Political position=Centre|loksabha_leader=Rajkumar Sangwan|rajyasabha_leader=Jayant Chaudhary|women=Nari Shakti Sangathan|students=Rashtriya Lokdal Student Wing|peasants=Rashtriya Lokdal Farmer Cell|general_secretary=Trilok 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|secretary=Manisha Ahlawat}}
The Rashtriya Lok Dal (abbr. RLD, ) 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.
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.
In 1999, he relaunched his party with the name Rashtriya Lok Dal. 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. After his party joined the ruling United Progressive Alliance in 2011, he was Minister of Civil Aviation from December 2011 to May 2014. In 2019 Indian general election, he contested from Muzaffarnagar but lost to Sanjeev Balyan of BJP by a very small margin of 6526 votes.
RLD could not make any strong presence from 2014 to 2022, even losing its traditional seats. 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.
In 2024 Indian general election, the party joined the Bharatiya Janata Party led National Democratic Alliance and it won both the seats from which it contested in alliance (Bijnor and Baghpat).
RLD party office bearers
- National President - Jayant Singh
- National Vice President - Dr. Yashveer Singh
- National General Secretary (Organization)- Trilok Tyagi
- National General Secretary-
- K.P. Choudhary
- Abdul Sagir Khan
- Sukhveer Singh Gathina
- Malook Nagar
- Girish Kumar Chaudhary
- Rajendra Sharma
- Munshi Ram
- Chandan Chauhan
- State President, Uttar Pradesh - Ramashish Rai
- Nari Shakti Sangathan (RLD) National President - Manisha Ahlawat
- State President Chatrasabha, Uttar Pradesh - Aman Pandey
Electoral history
Lok Sabha (Lower House)
| Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Term | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Indian | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Election | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Seats | ||
| contested | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Seats | ||
| won | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | % of | ||
| votes | ||||
| 12th Lok Sabha | 1998 | 8 | 0 | - |
| 13th Lok Sabha | 1999 | 7 | 2 | 0.37% |
| 14th Lok Sabha | 2004 | 10 | 3 | 0.63% |
| 15th Lok Sabha | 2009 | 7 | 5 | 0.44% |
| 16th Lok Sabha | 2014 | 8 | 0 | 0.13% |
| 17th Lok Sabha | 2019 | 3 | 0 | 0.24% |
| 18th Lok Sabha | 2024 | 2 | 2 | 0.14% |
Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha (Lower House)
| Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Term | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly Election | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Seats | ||
| contested | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Seats | ||
| won | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | % of | ||
| votes | ||||
| 13th Legislative assembly | 1996 | 38 | 8 | 2.13% |
| 14th Legislative assembly | 2002 | 38 | 14 | 2.65% |
| 15th Legislative assembly | 2007 | 254 | 10 | 1.95% |
| 16th Legislative assembly | 2012 | 46 | 9 | 2.33% |
| 17th legislative assembly | 2017 | 171 | 1 | 1.71% |
| 18th Legislative assembly | 2022 | 33 | 9 | 2.85% |
Legislative members
Lok sabha members (MPs)
| Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | No. | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Name | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Term in office | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Constituency | 1 | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr.Rajkumar Sangwan | 4 June 2024 | Incumbent | Baghpat | ||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||
| Chandan Singh Chauhan | 4 June 2024 | Incumbent | Bijnor | ||||||
| Uttar Pradesh |
Rajyasabha members (MPs)
| Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | No. | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Name | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Term in office | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Constituency | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jayant Chaudhary | 5 July 2022 | Incumbent | Uttar Pradesh |
Vidhan parishad members (MLCs)
| Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | No. | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Name | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Term in office | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Constituency | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | State | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yogesh Choudhary | 6 May 2024 | Incumbent | elected by Legislative assembly member's | Uttar Pradesh |
Vidhan sabha members (MLAs)
| Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | No. | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Name | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Term in office | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Constituency | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | State | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Subhash Garg | 11 December 2018 | Incumbent | Bharatpur | Rajasthan | |||||||||||||||
| Rajpal Singh Baliyan | 10 March 2022 | Incumbent | Budhana | Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||||
| Persann Chaudhary | 10 March 2022 | Incumbent | Shamli | ||||||||||||||||
| Dr. Ajay Kumar Tomar | 10 March 2022 | Incumbent | Chhaprauli | ||||||||||||||||
| Pradeep Chaudhary "Guddu" | 10 March 2022 | Incumbent | Sadabad | ||||||||||||||||
| Ghulam Mohammad | 10 March 2022 | Incumbent | Siwalkhas | ||||||||||||||||
| Ashraf Ali Khan | 10 March 2022 | Incumbent | Thana Bhawan | ||||||||||||||||
| Mithlesh Pal | 23 November 2024 (by-election) | Incumbent | Meerapur | ||||||||||||||||
| Anil Kumar | 10 March 2022 | Incumbent | Purqazi | ||||||||||||||||
| Madan Bhaiya | 6 November 2022 (by-election) | Incumbent | Khatauli |
List of ministers in union government
| Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | No. | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Photo | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Portfolio | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Name | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Lifespan) | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Assumed office | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Left office | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Duration | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Constituency | ||
| (House) | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | [](prime-minister-of-india) | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| [[File:The Union Minister for Civil Aviation, Shri Ajit Singh holding a Press Conference, in New Delhi on June 01, 2012 (cropped).jpg | 70px]] | Minister of Agriculture | Chaudhary Ajit Singh | |||||||
| (19392021) | 22 July | |||||||||
| 2001 | 24 May | |||||||||
| 2003 | Baghpat | |||||||||
| (Lok Sabha) | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |||||||||
| Minister of Civil Aviation | 18 December | |||||||||
| 2011 | 26 May | |||||||||
| 2014 | Manmohan Singh | |||||||||
| [[File:Shri Jayant Singh Chaudhary.jpg | 70px]] | Minister of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship | ||||||||
| (MoS I/C) | Jayant Chaudhary | |||||||||
| (1978) | 10 June | |||||||||
| 2024 | Incumbent | Uttar Pradesh | ||||||||
| (Rajya Sabha) | Narendra Modi | |||||||||
| Minister of Education | ||||||||||
| (MoS) |
List of ministers in state governments
1. Rajasthan
| Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | No. | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Name | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Term in office | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Portfolio | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Chief Minister |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Subhash Garg | 2018 | 2023 |
2. Uttar Pradesh
| Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | No. | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Name | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Term in office | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Portfolio | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | Chief Minister |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anil Kumar | 2024 | Incumbent | Cabinet Minister of Science & Technology |
State Leadership
The Rashtriya Lok Dal has state units in Jharkhand, Delhi, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and other states.
| Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | State | Rashtriya Lok Dal}};color:white" | State President |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | Ramashish Rai | ||
| Rajasthan | Joginder Singh Awana | ||
| Haryana | Jagjit Singh Sangwan | ||
| Delhi | Rajneesh Malik | ||
| Jharkhand | D P Lala | ||
| Jammu and Kashmir | Dr. Zahoor Ahmad Sheikh | ||
| Maharashtra | Sudhir Raut | ||
| Gujarat | K. Praveen Singh Jadeja | ||
| Uttarakhand | Rajendra Pant |
References
References
- "Jayant Chaudhary appointed new RLD president". The Economic Times.
- (2013). "Big blow to RLD from Election Commission, snatched the status of state level party Dated 10.04.2023". Patrika.
- (11 January 2022). "Obituary: Ajit Singh Braved All Odds but Never Sacrificed His Secular Ideology".
- (11 January 2022). "Obituary: Ajit Singh Braved All Odds But Never Sacrificed His Secular Ideology".
- (14 January 2022 }}[[Farmer's upliftment (politics)). "RLD: SP, RLD release first list of 29, field 9 Jats & 9 Muslims | Uttar-Pradesh Election News - Times of India".
- [http://www.tribuneindia.com/1998/98sep30/nation.htm#2 BKKP, RLD merge with Lok Dal]
- (2021-05-06). "रालोद के अध्यक्ष चौधरी अजित सिंह का कोरोना से निधन, मेदांता अस्पताल में थे भर्ती".
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- Yadav, Nicholas. (6 May 2021). "A Tribute To Chaudhary Ajit Singh".
- Phadnis, Aditi. "The Jazz-Loving Politician With No Enemies".
- (2011-12-19). "RLD leader Ajit Singh sworn-in as Civil Aviation Minister". The Economic Times.
- "Ajit Singh: Age, Biography, Education, Wife, Caste, Net Worth & More - Oneindia".
- "RLD Chief Ajit Singh Files Nomination from UP's Muzaffarnagar".
- (2023-04-13). "RLD's political journey comes full circle in 24 years of its existence". The Times of India.
- Scroll Staff. (2019-05-24). "2019 results: Ajit Singh and son Jayant Chaudhary of Rashtriya Lok Dal lose close contests in UP".
- (2023-07-09). "Ties strained, RLD sends SP a signal: Wants 12 seats in LS polls".
- (2022-03-10). "U.P. Assembly polls: RLD finds some of its lost mojo in west". The Hindu.
- (2019-05-26). "RLD undeterred by Lok Sabha results". The Economic Times.
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