rashtriyalokdal.com Rashtriya Lok Dal : Official Website

Party : Rashtriya Lok Dal
State : Uttar Pradesh
Symbol : Hand Pump
Year of Foundation : 1996
Current Leader : Ajit Singh

Home Page : http://rashtriyalokdal.com/

Rashtriya Lok Dal :

** Chaudhary Charan Singh, son of Smt. Netra Kaur and Chaudhary Meer Singh, was born on 23 December 1902 in Noorpur village in Meerut District of Uttar Pradesh.
** Chaudhary Charan Singh had his primary education in his native village school at Jani Khurd, and passed his matriculation from the Government High School, Meerut.

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** He graduated in Science from Agra College in 1923, did his M.A. in History from Agra University, passed the L.L.B. examination in 1927 and got himself enrolled as an advocate in Ghaziabad.
** In his youth, Chaudhary Charan Singh exhibited a strong social conscience, and the will to act in accordance with his moral compass.
** The ideas and teachings of Swami Dayanand Saraswati, the founder of Arya Samaj had a deep influence on him.
** Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel, Chaudhary Charan Singh joined the freedom movement.
** In 1930, he was sentenced to six months in prison for contravening the salt law.
** He was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment in 1940.
** Released in October 1941, Chaudhary Charan Singh was arrested again in 1942 under the Defence of India Rule.

Our President – Chaudhary Ajit Singh :

** Chaudhary Ajit Singh, the National President of Rashtriya Lok Dal is currently serving his 6th term as Lok Sabha Member of Parliament in the 15th Lok Sabha, and the Minister for Civil Aviation.
** Born on 12 February, 1939, he is an alumnus of Lucknow University, I.I.T, Kharagpur and the Illinois Institute of Technology (U.S.A).
** He worked for 17 years in the computer software engineer in the emerging IT industry in U.S.A.
** He worked for 17 years in the computer software engineer in the emerging IT industry in U.S.A.
** Ch. Ajit Singh first entered parliament as a Member of the Rajya Sabha in 1986.
** He led his own faction of Lok Dal (Ajit) in 1987.
** He was President of Janata Party in 1988 and was elected as Secretary-General in 1989 of the Janata Dal, and a Member of Parliament in the 1989 Lok Sabha elections.
** In December 1989, Ch. Ajit Singh became the Union Cabinet Minister for Industry in the National Front Government of Late Shri VP Singh (from December, 1989 to November, 1990).
** He was re-elected in 1991 as Member of Parliament from Janata Dal.
** He was appointed Cabinet Minister of Food in February, 1995 in the Congress Government and held the post till May, 1996.
** Ch. Ajit Singh was elected to the Lok Sabha again in 1996 and left the congress party to form his own Bharatiya Kisan Kamghar Party (BKKP).
** He resigned his membership as MP from Lok Sabha and contested the bye-election caused by his resignation as a BKKP candidate.
** In 1999, he contested Lok Sabha polls as a candidate of the Rashtriya Lokdal.
** In July 2001, he was sworn in as Cabinet Minister for Agriculture and served in the position till May 2003.
** Ch. Ajit Singh is a prominent advocate for a ‘rural development focussed’ model of growth.
** He has pushed for increased investment in the rural economy and introduction of measures to propagate sustainable technologies for improving agricultural productivity, and economic yields for farmers.
** Notably, in 1996, he reduced the circle distance between sugar mills from 25 km to 15 km, which resulted in greater investments and competition in the sugar industry and higher realizations for farmers.
** As Agriculture Minister, he also instituted the credit linked subsidy scheme for augmenting cold storage capacity, which enabled much needed flow of private investment into the industry.
** As Agriculture Minister Ch Ajit Singh was prompt in providing relief to the farmers facing the crisis of the 2002 drought.
** He extended assistance from the Calamity Relief Fund (CRF) which was till then restricted to farmers holding two hectares of land or less, to all farmers (this was critical for the farming community particularly in areas where the average landholding was high but productivity was low).
** The 2002 drought in the country He has spearheaded the public movement against the antiquated and inequitable land acquisition laws in the country, and also the successful agitation by the sugarcane farmers in Delhi against the FRP Amendment (2009) to the Essential Commodities Act, 1955.
** He is a votary of the movement for reorganising of some of India’s large and administratively unwieldy states including Andhra Pradesh, Maharasthra and Uttar Pradesh.
** Ch. Ajit Singh is serving as Chairman of the Kisan Trust founded by former Prime Minister, late Chaudhary Charan Singh in 1978

Contact :
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Address:
406, V P House, Rafi Marg, New Delhi Delhi 110001 India
Email: info@rashtriyalokdal.com