The Narendra Modi’s swearing ceremony and his council of ministers is underway. With this, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by the Bharatiya Janata (BJP) party formed the government at the center for a third consecutive term.
All eyes are on the division of ministerial seats among the partners of the NDA. While the BJP, which is most of the 18th Lok Sabha with 240 seats, will retain most of the pie, its allies should be rewarded to help it return to power for the third time.
One of these allies is the chief of Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) Jayant Singh Chaudhary. Although he did not challenge the Lok Sabha elections this time, the deputy of Rajya Sabha was inducted in Modi’s 3.0 cabinet.
Who is it? How did his party work in Lok Sabha’s polls? Let’s take a closer look.
Who is Jayant Chaudhary?
Born in the United States, Jayant Chaudhary comes from a political family from Uttar Pradesh. His grandfather, Charanry Charan Singh, was the fifth Indian Prime Minister.
Jayant’s father, Ajit Singh, was a former minister of the Union and a popular face of JAT politics in the state of the North.
Jayant Singh studied at the University of Delhi and finished a master’s degree in accounting and finance of the London School of Economics.
According to a Indian Express Report, he made his electoral debut in 2009 when he won the Mathura Lok Sabha siege.
The RLD, which relied on a combination of the JAT community and Muslim voters in the sugar cane belt in the state of Hindi Heartland, faced huge reversals in Lok Sabha’s polls in 2014 Due to the riots of Muzaffarnagar, a district of West Up, in 2013 during Akhilesh the mandate of Yadav as Minister of Chief.
At the time, the RLD lost the eight seats of Lok Sabha which he disputed, with Ajit Singh defeated of his original grass of Baghpat and his losing son of Mathura.
According to Lok Sabha’s Lok Sabha polls, Jayant Singh had taken control of his father’s party. For the general elections, the RLD forged an alliance with the Samajwadi (SP) party, the Congress and the Bahujan Samaj party of Mayawati (BSP).
The RLD only challenged three Lok Sabha seats of Westen Up – Muzaffarnagar, Baghpat and Mathura. Although he cannot win any of these seats, Ajit and Jayant have obtained more than 45% from the votes of their respective seats in Muzaffarnagar and Baghpat, added the newspaper report.
Although the RLD failed to make big gains in the assembly polls in 2022, it saw a renewal.
In May 2021, Ajit Singh died of prolonged disease. Jayant took charge of the president of the RLD this month. As Times of India (you) Noted, Jayant’s “greatest recognition” came on September 20, 2021 when members of various Kapidae gathered in Baghpat and “coronated” him as “Baden Chaudhary” after the death of his father.
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The chief of the RLD is the president of the Kisan Trust founded by his late grandfather in 1978. Jayant had supported Protestant farmers for their agitation of a year in 2020-2010 against the three agricultural laws of the center (now abandoned).
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Despite their survey losses and the BJP becoming a dominant force in UP since 2014, the RLD-SPE alliance continued to grow. The bonhomie between Akhilesh Yadav by SP and Jayant Chaudhary was visible several times.
Until February of this year, the RLD was part of the opposition block in India formed to face the NDA led by Modi. Jayant had declared famous in 2022 when the BJP would have approached the RLD for a link before the polls of the Assembly, “Hand koi chawanni nahi jo palat yellowed (I am not a piece of 25 pastures that will return). »»
The RLD bet borne fruit because it increased its statement as a siege from one in 2017 to eight in the surveys of the 2022 assembly. It also improved its share of voice by 1.8% in 2017 to 2.9 %.
Jayant Singh’s crossing for greener pastures occurred after an important gesture this year.
At the beginning of February, the Modi government conferred Bharat Ratna, the highest civil prices in India, on the late Charany Singh, the grandfather of Jayant.
Responding to the announcement of PM Modi, the chief of the RLD wrote on X: “Dil Jeet Liya (You won my heart) ”.
When asked if he would go to the BJP, he told journalists: “Dekhiye Koi Kasar Rehti Hai? AAJ May Kis Muh se Inkaar Karoon Aapke Iss Sawal Ko? “(Is there anything left? What face can I deny this question today?).
Video | “The decision, which could not be taken by any other government, which was boldly taken by this government because of the vision of the PM Modi and its dedication,” said RLD chief @jayerrld On Bharat Ratna to the former Prime Minister CHAPHARY Charan Singh. pic.twitter.com/rjbvbnoeng
– Press Trust of India (@pti_news) February 9, 2024
Later, the chief of the RLD met the friend Shah and JP Nadda of the BJP and joined the NDA, officially leaving the Indian block.
According to the siege sharing agreement with the Safran party, the RLD challenged two Lok Sabha – Bijnor and Baghpat seats. He put the two seats in the Uttar Pradesh this time.
And now, Jayant, who had become a deputy for Rajya Sabha with the support of the SP, would become Minister of the Third Government Modi.
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– Jayant Singh (@jayerrld) June 5, 2024
Row on seats
The SP and the Congress took boosts recently after Jayant Chaudhary was spotted seated
Friday, on the benches of Samvidhan Sadan (old parliament) in the parliamentary meeting of the NDA.
This camera as tdp chief chandrababu naidu, jd (u) president nitish kumar, shiv sena’s eknath shinde, ljp (ram vilas) chief chirag paswan, jana sena party’s pawan kalyan, ncp’s ajit pawar, jd (s) hd kumaraswamy, ham’s jitan The Anupriya Patel of Ram Majhi and Apna Dal (Sonelal) were seated with Modi and other senior BJP leaders on the platform.
Taking a search to the chief of the RLD, the deputy Sp Rajeev Rai would have said: “Not giving him (Jayant Chaudhary) a seat on stage is an insult to the leader who is the grandson of the greatest farmers, Chaudhary sahib. The BJP is the same celebration that calls terrorists and the traitors of farmers. If Jayant Chaudhary is concerned about respecting farmers and his own self -respect, he should not tolerate this insult. ”
However, the RLD played on the incident. About India todayRLD Anil Kumar deputy said,
“When did (the) Indian block give us respect? Whether you are above or below is not a big problem. Politics must be made with a wide mind. Do not think of small questions. The RLD is a main constituent party of the NDA and will remain with it ”.
With the level of uncertainty in Indian politics, only time will tell us if loyalty changes or will remain the same.
With agency entries
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