Jai Prakash Janta Dal

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The Jai Prakash Janta Dal (JPJD)

right-wing
party following the vision of JP.

As of 2023 shila yadav[3] becomes the National President of the party with B.K. Singh as the guiding head of the party. In the 2014 general election, JPJD under the leadership of Pankaj Sahay, contested the Lok Sabha elections for the very first time and the party fought these elections on 7 Parliamentary Seats in Bihar and Jammu & Kashmir. The Party Headquarter is located at Pratap Nagar, Mayur Vihar Phase-1 in New Delhi.Pankaj sahay appointed Shri Ankit mehta as a state president for gujarat state. Ankit mehta is a well known film producer, social activist, businessman, and speaker.

History

Formation

The party was founded in 2002, as four Members of the

Vishwanath Singh and Sashi Kumar Rai, with Rai heading the legislative faction.[4] The party supported the government of Rabri Devi.[5] However, in 2004 the four legislators broke their links with the Devi government and merged back into JD(U).[6] As of 2004 MP Jai Narain Prasad Nishad served as president of the party.[7]

Leadership

The party leadership went from Jai Narain Prasad Nishad to B.K. Singh in the year 2012. While in the year 2014 keeping the 16th Lok Sabha elections in mind, Pankaj Sahay was elected the National President[8] of the Jai Prakash Janta Dal who is also the current Party President. He took the charge of the party in 2014 and had played a very prominent role in the expansion of the party across the nation and under his leadership the party contested the 2014 general election on 7 of the Parliamentary Seats in Bihar and Jammu & Kashmir, this was the first time when JPJD fought the Lok Sabha elections.[9]

youths with JPJD. He also gave the slogan
of "Shanti Sadbhav Shamridhi" to the party.

National Executive Meetings, 2018

In the year 2018, two major National Executive Meetings of Jai Prakash Janta Dal (JPJD) took place. The first National Executive Meet of the party took place on 11 February 2018, in which the Prime Agendas were the expansion of the party across the country and to set up the Political Training Centers at every branch of the Party Office across India for youths and general citizens of the country to make their future in Politics. These agendas were laid down by the Party's President, Pankaj Sahay[10] in the meeting.

While on 5 August 2018, the second National Executive Meet of the party took place in which the prime agendas were Election of the Party's National President and Formation of the Party's National Council. For the post of the Party's National President, party's face Pankaj Sahay was nominated and he was re-appointed as the National President[11] of the party with a complete mandate to his name by the party leaders. Moreover, the newly appointed National President Pankaj Sahay proposed the creation of party's National Council soon after holding his post which got too constituted in this meet and the Party's Former President, B.K. Singh was appointed as the head of the National Council by Party's Current National President, Pankaj Sahay.

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