Socialist Janata (Democratic) Party broke away from

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 ...

. It merged with Janata Dal (United) on 29 December 2014.

History

The Kerala unit of the Janata Dal (Secular) is a part of the

CPI (M) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a Marxist–Leninist communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party of India in terms of membership and electoral seats and one of the ...

-led

Left Democratic Front The Left Democratic Front (LDF) is an alliance of left-wing political parties in the state of Kerala, India. It is the current ruling political alliance of Kerala, since 2016. It is one of the two major political alliances in Kerala, the ...

. The CPI(M)-JD(S) ties came under strain around 2008. Things worsened when the CPI(M) hesitated to give the JD(S) seat of the

Kozhikode Kozhikode (), also known in English as Calicut, is a city along the Malabar Coast in the state of Kerala in India. It has a corporation limit population of 609,224 and a metropolitan population of more than 2 million, making it the second ...

parliamentary constituency, in the 2009 Lok Sabha election, and the leading newspaper Mathrubhumi published lavalin issues, which is against Pinarayi vijayan. He got angry with the managing director of Mathrubhumi and the chief of SJ(D) MP Virendra Kumar. A major portion of the JD(S) led by M.P. Veerendra Kumar aligned with the United Democratic Front and launched the Socialist Janata (Democratic) Party on 7 August 2010. It merged with Janata Dal (United) on 29 December 2014. In 2018, the Veerendra Kumar fraction of the Janata Dal (United) unit of

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South Ca ...

under the leadership of

M. P. Veerendra Kumar Maniyankode Padmaprabha Veerendra Kumar (22 July 1936 — 28 May 2020) was an Indian politician, writer and journalist, who was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha. He was a member of the Loktantrik Janata Dal political party and president of the ...

merged with

Loktantrik Janata Dal The Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD) was an unrecognized registered political party in India. It was nationally launched by Sharad Yadav and Ali Anwar in May 2018. The party was formed after Yadav parted ways from Janata Dal (United), due to its ...

Leaders

* M. P. Veerendrakumar * K. P. Mohanan * M. V. Shreyams Kumar * V. Surendran Pillai * Varghese George * Sheikh. P. Harris * Gregorious Sakaria * Manayath Chandran * Charupara Ravi * K. Shankaran Master * Augustin Kolenchery * V Kunjali * Koran Master * A.V Ramachandran * Saleem Madavoor * Ugin Morely * Sabah Pulpatta * N.C Moyinkutty * T.M Sivarajan

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*http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/article/08wK3983Wx9vN?q=janata+party Defunct political parties in Kerala 2010 establishments in Kerala 2014 disestablishments in India Defunct socialist parties in India Democratic socialist parties in Asia Former member parties of the United Progressive Alliance Janata Dal Janata Parivar Political parties disestablished in 2014 Political parties established in 2010 Political parties in Kerala Secularism in India {{India-party-stub