Dushyant Chautala is the leader of the Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) and the former Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana (2019 to 2024). Dushyant is the grandson of Om Prakash Chautala and the son of Ajay Chautala and Naina Singh Chautala. In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, he won the Hisar parliamentary seat as the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) candidate by defeating Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) leader Kuldeep Bishnoi with a margin of 31,847 votes. Dushyant became the youngest ever elected MP at 26, for which he holds a record in the 'Limca Book of Records'. Dushyant ended his ties with the INLD in 2018 and founded the JJP. In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Chautala was comfortably beaten by Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Brijendra Singh by a massive margin of 3,14,068 votes. However, he won the Uchana Kalan constituency in the 2019 Haryana Assembly polls by defeating BJP candidate Prem Lata with a margin of 47,452 votes. His party won 10 seats in the Haryana Assembly, and he became the Deputy Chief Minister in the Manohar Lal Khattar government after the BJP couldn't get the majority mark on its own. He is again contesting from the Uchana Kalan constituency in the 2024 Haryana Assembly polls.
Read MoreUchana Kalan Assembly Election 2024: In the last Assembly election in 2019, JNP's Dushyant Chautala won the Uchana Kalan seat, defeating Prem Lata of the Bharatiya Janata Party with a margin of 47,452 votes.
Dushyant Chautala was accompanied by his mother and Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) MLA Naina Chautala as he filed his nomination on the first day of filing the papers.
The 90-member Haryana assembly will go to polls in a single phase on October 5 and the results will be announced on October 8.
With Haryana Assembly elections approaching, political parties are vying for the Dalit vote, recognizing its potential to sway the election outcome.
Chandrasekhar said at a press conference that the formal alliance has been formed now, but talks were going on for a long time.
The ties between the BJP and Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala-led JJP severed following their failure to reach a seat-sharing agreement in the state for the Lok Sabha polls.
Following the resignations of Independent MLA Ranjit Chautala and former chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar from the 90-member Haryana Assembly, the BJP now has only 40 MLAs out of 88.
Haryana political crisis: Dushyant Chautala has declared that the party would vote against the Nayab Singh Saini-led government in case a no-confidence motion is moved by the Leader of Opposition, Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
In 2019 Haryana Assembly elections, BJP won a total of 40 seats out of the total 90. To form the government, any party has to show support of 45 MLAs. With three Independents withdrawing their support, the Nayab Singh Saini-led government finds itself on unstable footing.
Haryana is set to witness polling in a single phase on May 25 for the much-awaited general elections.
Earlier, Khattar and all 13 other members of the BJP-led council of ministers submitted their resignations to the Governor prompting the party to form a new government without JJP on board.
The BJP-JJP alliance in Haryana is on the verge of getting over after Chief Minister Manohar along with his entire Cabinet resigned from their posts. According to sources, oath-taking ceremony of new chief minister is likely to take place today itself.
Nuh violence: The communal clash in Nuh sparked a spell of violent incidents in several parts of Haryana, including Gurugram.
The car collided when a Bolero operated by the state police applied sudden brakes due to low visibility.
The Haryana government had last year enacted the Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Act, 2020, to grant 75 per cent reservation for locals in private jobs.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his address to the nation on Gurupurab, announced that there farm laws will be repealed in the coming Winter session of Parliament.
The Haryana Deputy CM's comments came days after Captain Amarinder Singh stepped down from the chief minister's post and Charanjit Singh Channi took over the reins of the state.
Till the time the situation normalises in Afghanistan, full cooperation will be extended to the students in terms of relaxations in fees and admission to courses, Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala told reporters.
Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala on Sunday reviewed the availability and pricing of essential commodities, including medical oxygen
Facing heat over the ongoing six-week-long farmers' protest at Delhi borders, Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday to possibly discuss the three Central agricultural laws and farmers' issues.
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