All India Progressive Janata Dal (formerly All India Janata Dal), was a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or p ...

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. AIJD was launched on 11 December 2002, by several leaders of

Janata Dal (Secular) The Janata Dal (Secular) is an Indian political party led by former prime minister of India, H. D. Deve Gowda. The party is recognized as a State Party in the states of Karnataka, Kerala and Arunachal Pradesh. It was formed in July 1999 by the ...

and Janata Dal (United) in

Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO 15919, ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reor ...

, including the main JD(U) leader in the state

Ramakrishna Hegde Ramakrishna Mahabaleshwar Hegde (29 August 1926 – 12 January 2004) was an Indian politician who served as the tenth Chief Minister of Karnataka for three terms between 1983 and 1988. He was elected to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly in 1 ...

and JD(S) leader

S. R. Bommai Somappa Rayappa Bommai (6 June 1924 – 10 October 2007) was an Indian Politician who was the 11th Chief Minister of Karnataka. He was also the Ministry of Human Resource Development (India), Human Resource Development Minister in the United Fr ...

. AIJD president was former Union minister S. R. Bommai (coming from JD(S)) and vice-president was

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member

Vijay Mallya Vijay Vittal Mallya (born 18 December 1955) is an Indian businessman, former politician and fugitive. He is the subject of an extradition effort by the Indian Government to return him from the UK to face charges of financial crimes in India. ...

(previously vice-president of JD(U)). C. M. Ibrahim was also the National President for a brief periodhttp://164.100.133.69/spb/Documents/BRIEF%20RESUME%20OF%20SHRI.%20C.M.%20IBRAHIM.pdf BIODATA OF C.M. IBRAHIM S/o Late C.M.K. Ali.

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