The Jai Prakash Janta Dal (JPJD) is a

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based on the

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Jayaprakash Narayan Jayaprakash Narayan (; 11 October 1902 – 8 October 1979), popularly referred to as JP or ''Lok Nayak'' (Hindi for "People's leader"), was an Indian independence activist, theorist, socialist and political leader. He is remembered for le ...

popularly known as Lok Nayak who as an

n Independence Activist,

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, Theorist and a Political Leader, deeply remembered for leading the mid-1970s opposition against PM

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. The primary motive of the party is to work for the

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of the common

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by providing them their

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, Jai Prakash Janta Dal aims to solve the fundamental issues of

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and

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inequality along with the issues of

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and the

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prevailing in the

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. The party has been registered by the

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in the year 2002 and has been allotted the symbol of Diesel Pump. The JPJD is a

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party following the vision of JP. As of 2023 shila yadav becomes the National President of the party with B.K. Singh as the guiding head of the party. In the 2014 general election, JPJD under the leadership of Pankaj Sahay, contested the

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elections for the very first time and the party fought these elections on 7 Parliamentary Seats in

Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Be ...

and Jammu & Kashmir. The Party Headquarter is located at Pratap Nagar,

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Phase-1 in

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History

Formation

The party was founded in 2002, as four Members of the

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broke away from the

Janata Dal (United) Janata Dal (United) ("People’s Party (United)”) abbreviated as JD(U) is an 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 , Arunachal Pra ...

. The four founding legislators were

Laxmi Narayan Yadav Laxmi Narayan Yadav is a socialist leader and former member of parliament (MP) of Bhartiya Janta Party. He has won the 2014 Indian general elections from the Sagar (Lok Sabha constituency). He is two times MLA from Surkhi (Vidhan Sabha cons ...

, Jainandan Yadav, Vishwanath Singh and Sashi Kumar Rai, with Rai heading the legislative faction. The party supported the government of

Rabri Devi Rabri Devi Yadav (born 1 January 1955) is an Indian politician who formerly served three terms as the Chief Minister of Bihar, the first and only woman till date to have held the office. She is a Member of Bihar Legislative Council (MLC), and ...

. However, in 2004 the four legislators broke their links with the Devi government and merged back into JD(U). As of 2004 MP

Jai Narain Prasad Nishad Jai Narain Prasad Nishad (18 November 1930 – 24 December 2018) was an Indian politician and member of parliament from Muzaffarpur Lok Sabha Constituency in the Indian State of Bihar. He was a Union Minister for State in 1996-1998 and has been ...

served as president of the party.

Leadership

The party leadership went from

to B.K. Singh in the year 2012. While in the year 2014 keeping the 16th

elections in mind, Pankaj Sahay was elected the National President of the Jai Prakash Janta Dal who is also the current Party President. He took the charge of the party in 2014 and had played a very prominent role in the expansion of the party across the nation and under his leadership the party contested the 2014 general election on 7 of the Parliamentary Seats in

and Jammu & Kashmir, this was the first time when JPJD fought the

elections. Pankaj Sahay had carried out several

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s for the party in the different States of

and associated many new members,

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s and

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with JPJD. He also gave the

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of "Shanti Sadbhav Shamridhi" to the party.

National Executive Meetings, 2018

In the year 2018, two major National Executive Meetings of Jai Prakash Janta Dal (JPJD) took place. The first National Executive Meet of the party took place on 11 February 2018, in which the Prime Agendas were the expansion of the party across the country and to set up the Political Training Centers at every branch of the Party Office across India for youths and general citizens of the country to make their future in

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. These agendas were laid down by the Party's President, Pankaj Sahay in the meeting. While on 5 August 2018, the second National Executive Meet of the party took place in which the prime agendas were Election of the Party's National President and Formation of the Party's National Council. For the post of the Party's National President, party's face Pankaj Sahay was nominated and he was re-appointed as the National PresidentNational President
National President of JPJD
' of the party with a complete mandate to his name by the party leaders. Moreover, the newly appointed National President Pankaj Sahay proposed the creation of party's National Council soon after holding his post which got too constituted in this meet and the Party's Former President, B.K. Singh was appointed as the head of the National Council by Party's Current National President, Pankaj Sahay.

References

{{reflist Political parties in Bihar Memorials to Jayaprakash Narayan 2002 establishments in India Political parties established in 2002