The Jannayak Janta Party, abbreviated as, JJP is an Indian state-level

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Haryana Haryana () is a States and union territories of India, state located in the northern part of India. It was carved out after the linguistic reorganisation of Punjab, India, Punjab on 1 November 1966. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with les ...

, 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 an Indian politician who served as the 6th Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana from 2019 to 2024. He represented the Uchana Kalan constituency in Haryana Legislative Assembly from 2019 until 2024 ...

with the ideology of

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, who served as

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Formation

JJP emerged from a split in the

Indian National Lok Dal The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) is a political party based primarily in the Indian state of Haryana. It was initially founded as the Haryana Lok Dal (Rashtriya) by Devi Lal in 1996, who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of India. The ...

(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 for which

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

Ajay Chautala Ajay Singh Chautala (born 13 March 1961) is a former Indian MP and sports administrator. He is elder son of former Chief Minister of Haryana Om Prakash Chautala and father of former Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana Dushyant Chautala. Biog ...

, 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 Om Prakash Chautala. 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 Om Prakash Chautala 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, Naina Singh Chautala 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. It however drew a blank in the

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and its vote share was reduced to just 0.9%. All but one of its candidates including former deputy cm

lost their

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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'.

Electoral Performance

Legislative Assembly elections

Former State Ministers

Haryana

References

{{Indian political parties State political parties in Haryana Janata Parivar Political parties established in 2018 2018 establishments in Haryana