Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)

Rashtriya Janata Dal - National Peoples Party is one of the major political party in India. The party was founded in 1997 by Laloo Prasad Yadav. It has a strong presence in Bihar under the leadership of Laloo Yadav and his wife Rabri Devi. Traditionally, the mass base of the party has been Yadavs and Muslims, two large and relatively politically active segments of Bihar's population.

RJD lost power after the elections in 2005, when a Nitish Kumar-led coalition NDA government wrested power from Rabri Devi, who had been chief minister of the state for XX years. The RJD is also a constituent of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)led by the Congress at the Centre.

Following the performance of the RJD in the last few elections, the Election Commission has now accorded it the status of a recognized national level party in 2008. RJD recently came into the headlines for its allegedly clandestine seat-sharing deal with Ram Vilas Paswans Lok Jana Shakti Party, leaving just three seats for the Congress. According to sources, the alliance between Congress and RJD is over now. The party will combine with Lok Janata Party leaving only three seats for the Congress. Now, with the Congress declaring its intentions to contest 37 seats in Bihar, RJDs marriage with the Congress in the UPA seems to be hanging a question mark.

List of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)candidates for Lok Sabha Election 2009
S.No	State Name	Constituency Name	Candidate Name
1	Bihar	Khagaria	Rabindra Kumar Rana
2	Bihar	Karakat	Kanti Singh
3	Bihar	Valmiki Nagar	Raghunath Jha
4	Bihar	Jhanjharpur	Devendra Prasad Yadav
5	Bihar	Ujiarpur	Alok Kumar Mehta
6	Bihar	Gaya	Ramjee Manjhi
7	Bihar	Gopalganj	Anil Kumar
8	Bihar	Bhagalpur	Shakuni Choudhary
9	Bihar	Jamui	Shyam Rajak
10	Bihar	Jahanabad	Surendra Prasad Yadav
11	Bihar	Buxar	Jagdanand Singh
12	Bihar	Munger	Ram Badan Rai
13	Bihar	Siwan	Hina Shahab
14	Bihar	Sasaram	Lalan Paswan
15	Bihar	Kishanganj	Md Taslimuddin
16	Bihar	Vaishali	Dr Raghuvansh Prasad Singh
17	Bihar	Banka	Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav
18	Bihar	Aurangabad	Shakeel Ahmed Khan
19	Bihar	Darbhanga	Mohd Ali Ashraf Fatmi
20	Bihar	Saran	Lalu Prasad
21	Bihar	Madhubani	Abdul Bari Siddiqui
22	Bihar	Sheohar	Sitaram Singh
23	Bihar	Purvi Champaran	Akhilesh Prasad Singh