Jayant Chaudhary,RLD

Jayant Chaudhary

Akhilesh Yadav

RLD, ally declare Jayant Chaudhary as UP CM candidate

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		Jayant Chaudhary is the grandson of India&rsquo;s fifth Prime Minister, Chaudhary Charan Singh and son of former Union minister Ajit Singh. Currently, he is the president of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and a Rajya Sabha MP.</div>
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		In 2024 LS polls, Jayant-led RLD was part of the NDA coalition and his party won 2 seats in Uttar Pradesh. After the declaration of the results, Jayant was inducted as the Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship</div>
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		Jayant has been critical of the 1894 land acquisition law and the large-scale land acquisitions in UP. He has been a part of the agitations to protest the unfair acquisition of land in the state and in the Mathura, Noida, Hathras, Greater Noida, Agra and Aligarh districts.</div>
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	<strong>Life and education</strong></div>
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	The Indian politician was born on December 27, 1978, in Dallas, USA. His father Ajit Singh had served as Union minister and was a multiple-time parliamentarian.</div>
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	Jayant Chaudhary, a former Lok Sabha MP, graduated from Shri Venkateswara College of the Delhi University and in 2002 received a master&#39;s degree in accounting and finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Jayant started heading the RLD after the death of Ajit Singh in 2021 due to Covid-19 infection.</div>
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	Jayant is married to Charu Singh and the couple has two children.</div>
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	Jayant Chaudhary was a member of the Parliament from Mathura in Uttar Pradesh in the 15th Lok Sabha. The RLD leader introduced a Private Member&rsquo;s Bill on Land Acquisition in the Lok Sabha on August 5, 2011.</div>
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	He also proposed a Private Member&rsquo;s bill to amend the Right To Information Act to increase the applicability of the act to include PPPs (Public-Private Partnerships) for greater transparency.</div>
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	Chaudhary contested from Mathura in the 2014 general elections, however, he lost to BJP candidate Hema Malini.</div>
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	In the 2019 LS polls, Jayant lost by a slim margin of 23,000 votes from Baghpat to BJP&#39;s Satya Pal Singh.</div>
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	However, in the 2024 LS polls, Jayant decided not to field himself from any seat.</div>
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	He continues to remain a Rajya Sabha MP to which he was elected in July 2022 with the support of Samajwadi Party.</div>
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	During his first term in the Lok Sabha, the RLD chief was a member of various Parliamentary Committees; the Standing Committees on Commerce, Agriculture and Finance, the Consultative Committee on Finance, the Committee on Ethics, and the Committee on Government Assurances.</div>
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	He has been a member of the General Board of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). Chaudhary has also co-chaired the FICCI Indo-British Forum of Parliamentarians and was a member of the Indo-Venezuela Parliamentary Friendship Group.</div>
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	Moreover, Jayant Chaudhary serves as the Chairman of the Kisan Trust founded by former PM, late Chaudhary Charan Singh in 1978.</div>

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