Jayant Chaudhary, key BJP ally, on UP govt's Kanwar Yatra order: 'Taken without much thought'
5 months ago

Jayant Chaudhary, key BJP ally, on UP govt's Kanwar Yatra order: 'Taken without much thought'

India TV News  

Rashtriya Lok Dal chief and Bharatiya Janata Paraty ally Jayant Chaudhary on Sunday demanded the Uttar Pradesh government roll back its order that eateries along the Kanwar route must display the names of their owners. "It seems that the order was taken without much thought and the government is adamant on it because the decision has been taken," he told reporters in Muzaffarnagar. Sources said Chaudhary's party RLD wants to field a Muslim candidate in the by-election of the Meerapur seat of Muzaffarnagar. Chaudhary's statement against the Yogi government on the Kanwar Yatra diktat is being seen as part of this strategy to retain the Meerapur seat.

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Haryana assembly elections: Congress bets on Chaudhary again for Kalka
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Haryana assembly elections: Congress bets on Chaudhary again for Kalka

Hindustan Times  

The Congress has picked sitting Kalka MLA Pradeep Chaudhary in its attempt to retain the seat in the upcoming Haryana assembly elections. Polarisation of Jat votes, especially of the Gurjar community, had helped spur Chaudhary’s win in 2019. In 2019, Chaudhary had defeated BJP candidate Latika Sharma by 5,931 votes, wresting the Kalka seat after his defeat to Sharma in …

BJP allies concerned over U.P. government’s ‘nameplate’ diktat for Kanwar yatra
5 months ago

BJP allies concerned over U.P. government’s ‘nameplate’ diktat for Kanwar yatra

The Hindu  

Differences surfaced within the ruling National Democratic Alliance on the Uttar Pradesh government’s order asking those running eateries, tea stalls, and fruit carts to display nameplates during the Kanwar yatra. The decision is “communally divisive and unconstitutional”, said Ramashish Rai, state president of the RLD, the BJP’s only ally in western U.P. The RLD’s Bijnor MP Chandan Chauhan said that …

Dushyant Chautala’s JJP seeks floor test in Haryana as BJP loses majority
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Dushyant Chautala’s JJP seeks floor test in Haryana as BJP loses majority

The Hindu  

After three Independent MLAs withdrew support to the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Haryana earlier this week, the Jannayak Janta Party and the Indian National Lok Dal on Thursday wrote to the Governor seeking directions for an immediate floor test to determine the majority of the government or the imposition of President’s rule in the State. Jannayak Janta Party leader …

Litmus test for Jayant crossover to NDA in Jat politics heartland
8 months ago

Litmus test for Jayant crossover to NDA in Jat politics heartland

New Indian Express  

BAGHPAT: Along the narrow lanes of Baghpat’s Chhaprauli Dehat village, the smiling photographs of former PM Chaudhary Charan Singh and his grandson Jayant Chaudhary don the walls of many houses. While his son Ajit Singh won the Baghpat seat seven times, his grandson Jayant Chaudhary lost the seat to BJP’s Satyapal Singh in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Political equations …

RLD announces candidates from Baghpat, Bijnor
9 months, 2 weeks ago

RLD announces candidates from Baghpat, Bijnor

The Hindu  

A day after formalising its entry into the National Democratic Alliance, the Rashtriya Lok Dal on Monday announced its candidates from Baghpat and Bijnor Lok Sabha seats and a Legislative Council slot. Striking a balance between its Jat and Gurjar vote base and giving a firm answer to erstwhile partner Samajwadi Party, the RLD announced its trusted veteran and national …

Ecostani | Jayant Chaudhary hopes that the NDA will help his party — and the BJP, too
10 months ago

Ecostani | Jayant Chaudhary hopes that the NDA will help his party — and the BJP, too

Hindustan Times  

Since Jayant Chaudhary, president of the Rashtriya Lok Dal, a party with influence among Jats in western Uttar Pradesh, announced that he would be part of Bharatiya Janata Party -led National Democratic Alliance giving a severe blow to INDIA bloc, the Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has not spoken a word against him. The RLD had failed to win even …

Voices in RLD favour strategic shift, all eyes on party chief Jayant Chaudhary now
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Voices in RLD favour strategic shift, all eyes on party chief Jayant Chaudhary now

Hindustan Times  

A section of Rashtriya Lok Dal leaders has begun emphasising the need for the party to go for a strategic shift under altered political equations after the Ram temple consecration ceremony in Ayodhya last week and the return of Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, architect of the Opposition’s INDIA alliance, to the National Democratic Alliance camp on Sunday. Rashtriya Lok …

Amid INDIA bloc talks, Akhilesh Yadav announces alliance with Jayant Chaudhary's RLD in western Uttar Pradesh
11 months ago

Amid INDIA bloc talks, Akhilesh Yadav announces alliance with Jayant Chaudhary's RLD in western Uttar Pradesh

Hindustan Times  

Lucknow: The Samajwadi Party and the Rashtriya Lok Dal on Friday announced an alliance for the upcoming general elections. Per the agreement, the Akhilesh Yadav-led party will leave seven seats in Western Uttar Pradesh for Jayant Chaudhary's party. An RLD leader told PTI that his party will contest seven seats in western Uttar Pradesh. The announcement of the alliance comes …

Bhupendra Chaudhary 'likely to be UP BJP chief'
2 years, 4 months ago

Bhupendra Chaudhary 'likely to be UP BJP chief'

Firstpost  

The likely appointment of Chaudhary is seen as BJP’s attempt to reach out to the influential Jat community, which was at the forefront of the year-long farmers’ protest against the three contentious farm laws New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh minister Bhupendra Chaudhary is likely to be appointed the BJP’s state unit chief, sources in the party have said. The likely appointment …

K’taka: Leadership change denied. All you need to know of Amit Shah visit
2 years, 7 months ago

K’taka: Leadership change denied. All you need to know of Amit Shah visit

Live Mint  

Union Minister Amit Shah was on a day long visit to Bengaluru on Tuesday, 3 May, only a little over a month after his previous visit to the state on 1 April. The BJP senior leader's visit had sparked rumours of change in leadership in the southern state, now helmed by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai. Amid buzz over possible change …

‘Shows his opinion on democracy…’: Anurag Thakur slams Jayant Chaudhary for failing to vote
2 years, 10 months ago

‘Shows his opinion on democracy…’: Anurag Thakur slams Jayant Chaudhary for failing to vote

Hindustan Times  

Union minister Anurag Thakur on Friday took a swipe at Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Jayant Chaudhary as the latter did not cast his vote in the first phase polling of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, held a day ago, saying that this clearly shows ‘their opinion on democracy.’ Union minister Anurag Thakur “A few dynastical people don't cast their votes. However, …

Abandoned idea of winning, asks BJP as RLD's Jayant Chaudhary skips voting in Mathura
2 years, 10 months ago

Abandoned idea of winning, asks BJP as RLD's Jayant Chaudhary skips voting in Mathura

India Today  

As voting for the first phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections began on Wednesday, Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Jayant Chaudhary said it was "physically impossible to cast a vote in Mathura". BJP leader Amit Malviya hit out at Jayant Chaudhary for not voting in the UP elections and asked, "How responsible is it for Jayant Chaudhary to not go …

Yogi Adityanath to News18: Jats Part of the 80% in UP, Jayant Chaudhary Good Person in Bad Alliance
2 years, 10 months ago

Yogi Adityanath to News18: Jats Part of the 80% in UP, Jayant Chaudhary Good Person in Bad Alliance

News 18  

RLD leader Jayant Chaudhary might be a good person but he is in the wrong alliance, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said in an exclusive interview with Network18 Group Editor-in-Chief Rahul Joshi on Friday. News18 February 4, 2022 RLD leader Jayant Chaudhary, the grandson of iconic farmer leader and former prime minister Chaudhary Charan Singh, has entered into an …

UP election 2022: BJP tries to woo Jat community in western UP ahead of Feb 10 polls
2 years, 10 months ago

UP election 2022: BJP tries to woo Jat community in western UP ahead of Feb 10 polls

India Today  

Ahead of the first phase of polling for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election on February 10, the Bharatiya Janata Party is putting all its might into wooing the Jat voters in western Uttar Pradesh. After Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya, MP Hema Malini, and others reached Mathura to woo the Jat voters. In 2013, the Jat …

Will never accept Amit Shah's invitation as BJP trying to stir communal tension: RLD's Jayant Chaudhary
2 years, 10 months ago

Will never accept Amit Shah's invitation as BJP trying to stir communal tension: RLD's Jayant Chaudhary

India Today  

Rashtriya Lok Dal president Jayant Chaudhary on Friday said that Bharatiya Janata Party’s Amit Shah was trying to create communal tension and that he would never join the saffron party. Amit Shah on Wednesday, while reaching out to Jat leaders, had said that Jayant Chaudhary had “chosen the wrong home” and hinted that the doors were open for him in …

Jat-Muslim Fault Lines Re-Emerge in Traditional RLD Seat; Candidates Changed in Two Constituencies
2 years, 11 months ago

Jat-Muslim Fault Lines Re-Emerge in Traditional RLD Seat; Candidates Changed in Two Constituencies

News 18  

A day before the last day of filing nominations for Phase 1 of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, the Rashtriya Lok Dal is grappling with candidate issues on as many as three seats, including its traditional seat of Siwalkhas where Jat-Muslim fault lines have remerged despite best efforts of the party. The party cadre has been camping at the house of …

SP-RLD Combine 'Attractive, Viable Alternative', BJP's Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Won't Work: Jayant Chaudhary
2 years, 11 months ago

SP-RLD Combine 'Attractive, Viable Alternative', BJP's Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Won't Work: Jayant Chaudhary

News 18  

Accusing the BJP of indulging in polarisation in the run-up to the Uttar Pradesh polls, RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary on Sunday said the BJP is driving a “one gear-car” that is headed backwards, and asserted that the anti-Muslim rhetoric will not work as people are fed up of such politics. In an interview to PTI, Chaudhary said the quitting of …

SP's Akhilesh Yadav, RLD's Jayant Chaudhary discuss seat-sharing arrangement ahead of UP polls
2 years, 11 months ago

SP's Akhilesh Yadav, RLD's Jayant Chaudhary discuss seat-sharing arrangement ahead of UP polls

India Today  

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav and Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Jayant Chaudhary held a meeting on Thursday to discuss their seat-sharing arrangement for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly election. While Akhilesh Yadav wanted the RLD to contest in 28 constituencies, negotiations resulted in the Samajwadi Party sparing between 34 and 36 seats for its allied party, sources said. Additionally, the …

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