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Jannayak Janta Party | |
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| Abbreviation | JJP |
| Leader | Dushyant Chautala |
| President | Ajay Singh Chautala |
| Secretary | Digvijay Chautala |
| General Secretary | Digvijay Chautala |
| Founder | Ajay Singh Chautala Dushyant Chautala |
| Founded | 9 December 2018; 6 years ago (2018-12-09), Jind,Haryana,India |
| Split from | Indian National Lok Dal |
| Headquarters | 18,Janpath,New Delhi |
| Student wing | Indian National Students Organisation |
| Colours | Yellow Green |
| ECI Status | Recognized State Party |
| Alliance | ASP (2024) NDA(2019 – 2024) |
| Seats in Rajya Sabha | 0 / 245 |
| Seats in Lok Sabha | 0 / 543 |
| Seats in Haryana Legislative Assembly | 0 / 90 |
| Number of states and union territories in government | 0 / 31 |
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TheJannayak Janta Party, abbreviated as,JJP is anIndian state-levelpoliticalparty inHaryana, India. JJP is a recognized state political party. JJP was founded on 9 December 2018 byDushyant Chautala with the ideology ofDevi Lal, who served asDeputy Prime Minister of India.
JJP emerged from a split in theIndian National Lok Dal (INLD) which itself had been cause by infighting among the Chautala family.[1] An INLD rally atGohana in October 2018 had seen heckling ofAbhay Chautala, a son of INLD leaderOm Prakash Chautala for whichDushyant Chautala, a grandson, and his younger brother,Digvijay Chautala, were blamed.
When Dushyant and Digvijay were expelled from the INLD for allegedly permittingindiscipline at the rally, their father,Ajay Chautala, supported them and so he, too, was expelled from the INLD.[2][3]
The JJP was formally launched at a rally inJind in December 2018 byDushyant Chautala[4] who held a seat in theLok Sabha of the nationalParliament of India, from when he was an INLD member.
He said that the party's name was in honour ofDevi Lal, a formerDeputy Prime Minister of India whose supporters in Haryana refer to him asJan Nayak, and that the party intended to follow his principles.
Dushyant's father, Ajay, absent from theJind rally, being at that time in jail in relation to an alleged scam, as also wasOm Prakash Chautala. Despite now being in opposite political factions, and claiming that the JJP was standing for values which the INLD had abandoned, Dushyant nonetheless asked supporters at the rally to chant "Long Live OP Chautala".[2][3]
Abhay Chautala who was leading the INLD in the absence ofOm Prakash Chautala reacted to the news by saying that "Everybody is not capable of floating apolitical party and then continue with it". At least three INLDMLAs, including Dushyant's mother,Naina Singh Chautala were early members of the new JJP.[2]
JJP in their debut2019 Haryana Legislative Assembly election won 10 seats and the party PresidentDushyant Chautala was appointed as theDeputy Chief Minister of Haryana on 25 October 2019.
It however drew a blank in the2024 Haryana Legislative Assembly election and its vote share was reduced to just 0.9%. All but one of its candidates including former deputy cmDushyant Chautala lost theirelection deposit.
The JJP has proposed a flag that is primarily green in colour, with a quarter in light yellow. Key is election symbol. JJP said the colours symbolise- Green was also adopted as a symbolic colour byDevi Lal, whose picture appears in the flag and Yellow symbolically represents 'Yuva Urja'.[2][5]
| Election Year | Overall votes | % of overall votes | seats contested | seats won | +/- in seats | +/- in vote share | Sitting side |
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| Haryana Legislative Assembly | |||||||
| 2019 | 1,858,033 | 14.80 | 87 | 10 | New Party | New Party | Right (Government-BJP coalition) |
| 2024 | 125,022 | 0.90 | 66 | 0 |  10 | 13.9% | Lost |
| S.No | Name | Constituency | Department (2019-2024) | Party | |
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| 1. | Dushyant Chautala | Uchana Kalan |
| JJP | |
| 2. | Anoop Dhanak | Uklana |
| JJP | |