The Jannayak Janta Party, abbreviated as, JJP is an
Indian state-level
political
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party
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in
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 ...
, India. JJP is a recognized state political party. JJP was founded on 9 December 2018 by
Dushyant Chautala with the ideology of
Devi Lal, who served as
Deputy Prime Minister of India. Based on the ideology of Jat solidarity and
socialism
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, JJP is very strong and popular in some parts of
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 ...
.
Formation
JJP emerged from a split in the
Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) which itself had been cause by infighting among the Chautala family. An INLD rally at
Gohana
Gohana is a city and a municipal council, near Sonipat city in the Sonipat district of the Indian state of Haryana.
Geography
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in October 2018 had seen heckling of
Abhay Chautala
Abhay Singh Chautala (born 14 February 1963) is an Indian politician. He is a member of the Haryana Legislative Assembly from Ellenabad assembly constituency.
He was the leader of opposition from the party, INLD. He is the grandson of ex-dep ...
, 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 th ...
for which
Dushyant Chautala, a grandson, and his younger brother,
Digvijay Chautala
Sonipat Lok Sabha constituency (earlier spelt as Sonepat) is one of the 10 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Haryana state in northern India.
Assembly segments
At present, Sonipat Lok Sabha constituency comprises nine Vidhan Sabha (le ...
, were blamed.
When Dushyant and Digvijay were expelled from the INLD for allegedly permitting
indiscipline
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This album was King Crimson's fi ...
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
Jind in December 2018 by
Dushyant Chautala who held a seat in the
Lok Sabha
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of the national
Parliament of India
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, from when he was an INLD member.
He said that the party's name was in honour of
Devi Lal, a former
Deputy Prime Minister of India 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
Jind rally, being at that time in jail in relation to an alleged scam, as also was
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 th ...
. 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
Abhay Singh Chautala (born 14 February 1963) is an Indian politician. He is a member of the Haryana Legislative Assembly from Ellenabad assembly constituency.
He was the leader of opposition from the party, INLD. He is the grandson of ex-dep ...
who was leading the INLD in the absence of 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 th ...
reacted to the news by saying that "Everybody is not capable of floating a political party
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and then continue with it". At least three INLD MLAs, including Dushyant's mother, Naina Singh Chautala were early members of the new JJP.[
JJP in their debut ]2019 Haryana Legislative Assembly election
Legislative Assembly election was held in Haryana on 21 October 2019 to elect 90 members of the Haryana Legislative Assembly. The final voter turnout was recorded at 68.20%. The results were announced on 24 October 2019.
The Bharatiya Janata P ...
won 10 seats and the party President Dushyant Chautala was appointed as the Deputy Chief Minister
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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 Devi Lal, whose picture appears in the flag and Yellow symbolically represents 'Yuva Urja'.
List of Members of Legislative Assembly in Haryana
State Minister
Haryana
See also
* Devi Lal
* Dynastic politics of Haryana
* Dushyant Chautala
References
{{Indian political parties
Political parties in India
State political parties in Haryana
Janata Parivar
Political parties established in 2018
2018 establishments in Haryana