The Jan Morcha (

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: ''People's Front'') was an Indian political party founded by V. P. Singh after he left the

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party in 1987 upon being dismissed as Defence Minister by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Together with

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, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Vidya Charan Shukla, Ram Dhan, Raj Kumar Rai and

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, Singh formed a nucleus of opposition to the Rajiv Gandhi government that had a commanding majority in the

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. Following the increasing visibility of his stand against corruption in public life and his growing popularity, the social-democratic parties like the

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and

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– many of them survivors of the original Janata Party of 1977 – came together and merged with the Jan Morcha to form the

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to fight the 1989 general elections. In which, the National Front, together with the Leftist parties and Rightist parties opposed to the Congress gained a plurality of seats. Subsequently V. P. Singh served as Prime Minister for eleven months. Following the Janata Dal's time in power and its subsequent split and decline, V. P. Singh, after surviving a battle with cancer, re-formed the Jan Morcha in 2005 with socialist actor-politician

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as its public face. In the

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, the party fielded 118 candidates, but other than

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, who won from Dayalbagh, defeating Kishan Lal Baghel of the Bahujan Samaj Party by three thousand votes (1.7%), no other candidate was successful. After this poor showing, Babbar joined the Congress, and Singh's elder son Ajeya Pratap Singh took over the reins of the party in anticipation of the 2009 general elections. In March 2009 Ajeya Singh announced that Jan Morcha was to be merged with the

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(LJP), of which he became a vice president and its Lok Sabha candidate from Fatehpur constituency. However, later,

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joined hands with the Samajwadi Party (SP) of

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and the RJD of Laloo Prasad Yadav, to form a ''Fourth front'', and Mulayam Singh declared that the LJP would not contest any seats in UP. Ajeya Singh then contested as Jan Morcha candidate from Fatehpur, but lost to Rakesh Sachan of the SP. The Jan Morcha was renamed as the National Jan Morcha in June 2009 and dedicated to farmer's causes and to forging a third alternative in national politics. A month later, the Jan Morcha merged with the

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