Key facts
- Abbreviation
- JD(U)
- President
- Nitish Kumar
- Rajya sabha leader
- Sanjay Kumar Jha
- Lok sabha leader
- Dileshwar Kamait
- Founder
- Sharad Yadav George Fernandes Nitish Kumar
- Founded
- 30 October 2003 (22 years ago) ( 30 October 2003 )
- Merger of
- Janata Dal (Sharad Yadav faction) Samata Party Lok Shakti
- Headquarters
- 7, Jantar Mantar Road, New Delhi, India-110001
- Newspaper
- JD(U) Sandesh
- Student wing
- Chhatra Janata Dal (U)
- Youth wing
- Yuva JD(U)
- Ideology
- Social democracy , Secularism
- Political position
- Centre
- Eci status
- State Party:, Arunachal Pradesh , Bihar , Manipur
- Seats in rajya sabha
- 4 / 245
- Seats in lok sabha
- 12 / 543
- Seats in state legislative assemblies
- List 85 / 243 ( Bihar ) , 1 / 81 ( Jharkhand ) , 1 / 60 ( Manipur )
- Number of states and union territories i
- 1 / 31
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Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- political party
- Country
- India
- Official website
- www.janatadalunited.org
- Political ideology
- democratic socialism
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- short name
- JD(U)
- inception
- 2003-01-01
- Commons category
- Janata Dal (United)
- topic's main category
- Category:Janata Dal (United)
- member category
- Category:Janata Dal (United) politicians
- sRGB color hex triplet
- 003366
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Encyclopedic overview
Janata Dal (United) (JD(U), lit. 'People's Party (United)'), is a social democratic and secular Indian political party, rooted mainly in eastern and north-eastern India, whose stated goals are promoting social justice and lifting up marginalised people. JD(U) is recognised as a state party in the states of Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh & Manipur where they are in coalition government. JD(U), as part of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance, won 12 seats in the 2024 Indian general election, making it the seventh largest party in the Lok Sabha.
JD(U) was formed with the merger of Sharad Yadav's faction of the Janata Dal, the Samata Party and the Lok Shakti party on 30 October 2003. The party's mentor and patron was the veteran socialist George Fernandes, successively leader of the Samyukta Socialist Party, the Socialist Party and the Samata Party. However, the Election Commission of India initially refused the merger of the latter: party president Brahmanand Mandal was suffering from Alzheimer's disease and not physically well, so Uday Mandal replaced him.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Janata Dal (United)” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.