Jayant Chaudhary

Skilling activities should be aligned with the requirements of the industry and the job market, Union Minister Jayant Chaudhary said on Wednesday. Inaugurating the Airbus-Tata STRIVE skill development centre here, the Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Minister also asked the two companies to further deepen their collaborations with higher education institutions. "It (skilling) needs to be completely aligned with industry, with the requirements of the job market, with the labour market. It needs to be to accentuate what is already present in India," the minister said. Later talking to reporters, he mentioned increasing migration from rural to urban areas and said everyone might not be getting jobs. Against this backdrop, the minister pitched for encouraging development of entrepreneurship skills among youth. The centres at Delhi and Bengaluru will offer courses in the field of Information Technology (IT) such as cybersecurity, ethical hacking, web designing, cloud computing a

Political leaders congratulate and pay tribute to the winners of this year's Bharat Ratna awards - P V Narasimha Rao, Chaudhary Charan Singh, and M S Swaminathan. Here is what they had to say

The Samajwadi Party and the Rashtriya Lok Dal on Friday announced their alliance for the Lok Sabha polls, with the RLD saying that the other party will leave seven seats in western Uttar Pradesh for its nominees. SP president Akhilesh Yadav and RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary announced the tie-up for the elections later this year on social media. "Congratulations to everyone on the alliance of RLD and SP. Let us all unite for victory," Yadav said in a post on X. Reposting this tweet, Chaudhary said, "Always ready to protect national and constitutional values. We expect all workers of our alliance to move forward together for the development and prosperity of our region." He also posted pictures of the two leaders shaking hands. An RLD spokesperson told PTI that the seat-sharing deal was finalised at a meeting between the two leaders. "The RLD will contest seven seats in western Uttar Pradesh," he said. But the spokesperson did not name the specific seats.

Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) president Jayant Chaudhary on Monday said any discussion on a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) now is "wrong" as its "structure" is not known yet, but said men and women should get equal rights. RLD's alliance partner Samajwadi Party has slammed the government over UCC. "As of now, I do not know its 'swaroop' (structure). Discussing it now is wrong. In modern India, everyone should be given equal rights. Men and women should get equal rights. How the government does this job, this has to be seen," the RLD chief told reporters here when asked to comment on UCC. Chaudhary has made his remarks on UCC for the first time, said RLD's UP unit chief Ramashis Rai. A fresh debate on UCC has been ignited after the Law Commission initiated a public consultation process on June 14 by inviting views from all stakeholders, including people and recognised religious organisations, on the politically sensitive issue. Implementation of a UCC has been part of BJP election manifestos a

A day after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra entered Uttar Pradesh, none of the prominent opposition leaders joined the Yatra on Wednesday.

Samajwadi Party national secretary and state spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary said, "The SP president is busy with his programmes and there is no likelihood of his joining the yatra"

Accompanied by Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Chaudhary reached Uttar Pradesh Assembly premises in the morning to file his nomination

Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Jayant Chaudhary will be the joint candidate of the Samajwadi Party and RLD for the Rajya Sabha elections

The RLD, which had contested the state polls in alliance with the Samajwadi Party, had fielded candidates on 33 seats and won eight of them

Rashtriya Lok Dal president Jayant Chaudhary on Thursday said he respected the public opinion after his alliance with the Samajwadi Party lost the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls.

The battle for Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) president Jayant Chaudhary is almost over with the completion of the first two phases of polling in Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2022.

He said this while addressing a programme in favour of a party candidate in the Sadarpur area of Ghaziabad

BJP leader Amit Shah cautioned RLD president Jayant Chaudhary over his party's tie-up with SP, saying Akhilesh Yadav does not even listen to his father and uncle then how would he listen to him.

Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Jayant Chaudhary accused Union Home minister Amit Shah of consistently using "caste-based terminology" during his election campaign in western Uttar Pradesh.

The BJP says its government gives subsidised ration to 80 crore poor people in the country and that is their admission of India's growing poverty, confirmed by surveys worldwide, Akhilesh Yadav said

Akhilesh Yadav asked farmers to be wary of the BJP, saying the ruling party's government had withdrawn its controversial farm laws only for the sake of votes.

Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Jayant Chaudhary has chosen the "wrong home", Amit Shah said as he reached out to Jat leaders at a meeting

Chaudhary is ambitious, but is realistic enough to know his limitations

Yadav had earlier said that his party's alliance with the Rastriya Lok Dal is final and only sharing of seats is to be discussed

PM Modi must sack Union minister Ajay Mishra over the violence here which left eight people dead, Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Jayant Chaudhary demanded on Monday