The Jannayak Janta Party, abbreviated as, JJP is an

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state-level

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Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land a ...

, India. JJP is a recognized state political party. JJP was founded on 9 December 2018 by

Dushyant Chautala Dushyant Singh Chautala (born 3 April 1988) is a Jannayak Janta Party politician and current Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana. He is the president and co-founder of the Jannayak Janata Party. He represents Uchana Kalan constituency in Haryana ...

with the ideology of

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, who served as

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. Based on the ideology of Jat solidarity and

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, JJP is very strong and popular in some parts of

Formation

JJP emerged from a split in the

Indian National Lok Dal Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) is a political party in India, in the state of Haryana. INLD was founded in October 1996 as Haryana Lok Dal (Rashtriya) by Choudhary Devi Lal, who served as Deputy Prime Minister of India in the V.P. Singh's Cab ...

(INLD) which itself had been cause by infighting among the Chautala family. An INLD rally at Gohana in October 2018 had seen heckling of Abhay Chautala, a son of INLD leader

Om Prakash Chautala Om Prakash Chautala (born 1 January 1935) is an Indian politician from Haryana who served as a former Chief Minister of Haryana from Indian National Lok Dal and son of 6th Deputy Prime Minister Chaudhary Devi Lal. Biography Chautala is the ...

for which

, a grandson, and his younger brother, Digvijay Chautala, were blamed. When Dushyant and Digvijay were expelled from the INLD for allegedly permitting

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at the rally, their father, Ajay Chautala, supported them and so he, too, was expelled from the INLD. The JJP was formally launched at a rally in

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in December 2018 by

who held a seat in the

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of the national

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, from when he was an INLD member. He said that the party's name was in honour of

, a former

whose supporters in Haryana refer to him as ''Jan Nayak'', and that the party intended to follow his principles. Dushyant's father, Ajay, absent from the

rally, being at that time in jail in relation to an alleged scam, as also was

. Despite now being in opposite political factions, and claiming that the JJP was standing for values which the INLD had abandoned, Dushyant nonetheless asked supporters at the rally to chant "Long Live OP Chautala". Abhay Chautala who was leading the INLD in the absence of

reacted to the news by saying that "Everybody is not capable of floating a

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and then continue with it". At least three INLD

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, including Dushyant's mother,

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were early members of the new JJP. JJP in their debut

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won 10 seats and the party President

was appointed as the

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of Haryana on 25 October 2019

Symbolism

The JJP has proposed a flag that is primarily green in colour, with a quarter in light yellow. Key is election symbol. JJP said the colours symbolise- Green was also adopted as a symbolic colour by

, whose picture appears in the flag and Yellow symbolically represents 'Yuva Urja'.

List of Members of Legislative Assembly in Haryana

State Minister

Haryana

References