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Political party in India
The
Jan Morcha
(
translation
:
People's Front
) was an Indian political party founded by
V. P. Singh
after he left the
Indian National Congress
party in 1987 upon being dismissed as Defence Minister by Prime Minister
Rajiv Gandhi
.
[
citation needed
]
Together with
Arun Nehru
,
Arif Mohammed Khan
,
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
,
Vidya Charan Shukla
,
Ram Dhan
,
Raj Kumar Rai
and
Satyapal Malik
, Singh formed a nucleus of opposition to the Rajiv Gandhi government that had a commanding majority in the
Lok Sabha
.
[1]
Following the increasing visibility of his stand against corruption in public life and his growing popularity, the social-democratic parties like the
Janata Party
,
Lok Dal
and
Congress (S)
? many of them survivors of the original Janata Party of 1977 ? came together and merged with the Jan Morcha to form the
Janata Dal
to fight the
1989 general elections
. In which, the
National Front
, together with the Leftist parties and Rightist parties opposed to the Congress gained a plurality of seats. Subsequently V. P. Singh served as prime minister for eleven months.
Following the Janata Dal's time in power and its subsequent split and decline, V. P. Singh, after surviving a battle with cancer, re-formed the Jan Morcha in 2005 with socialist actor-politician
Raj Babbar
as its public face.
[2]
In the
2007 Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections
, the party fielded 118 candidates, but other than
Dharmpal Singh
, who won from
Dayalbagh
, defeating Kishan Lal Baghel of the
Bahujan Samaj Party
by three thousand votes (1.7%), no other candidate was successful.
[3]
After this poor showing, Babbar joined the Congress, and Singh's elder son
Ajeya Pratap Singh
took over the reins of the party in anticipation of the 2009 general elections.
[4]
In March 2009 Ajeya Singh announced that Jan Morcha was to be merged with the
Lok Janshakti Party
(LJP), of which he became a vice president and its Lok Sabha candidate from
Fatehpur
constituency.
[5]
However, later,
Ram Vilas Paswan
joined hands with the
Samajwadi Party
(SP) of
Mulayam Singh Yadav
and the RJD of
Laloo Prasad Yadav
, to form a
Fourth front
, and Mulayam Singh declared that the LJP would not contest any seats in UP. Ajeya Singh then contested as Jan Morcha candidate from Fatehpur, but lost to
Rakesh Sachan
of the SP. The Jan Morcha was renamed as the National Jan Morcha in June 2009 and dedicated to farmer's causes and to forging a third alternative in national politics.
[6]
A month later, the Jan Morcha merged with the
Indian National Congress
.
[7]
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