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	Lok Janshakti Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lok Jan Shakti Party is a political party in India.
		The party was formed in 2000 when Paswan split from Janata Dal (United).
		The 2004 Lok Sabha elections marked a major break-through for the party.It contested the polls in alliance with Congress and RJD and won 4 Lok Sabha seats.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lok_Jan_Shakti_Party (198 words)

	Politics of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This rule was interrupted between 1977 to 1980, when the Janata Party coalition won the election owing to public discontent with the controversial state of emergency declared by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
		The Council of Ministers is responsible to the Lok Sabha.
		The Lok Sabha consists of 545 members; 543 are directly elected, while the other two are appointed by the President from among the Anglo-Indian community.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_India (1364 words)

	Lok Jan Shakti Party,LJP Manifestoes,Bhartiya Janta Party,Manifestoes of Lok Jan Shakti Party,India
		Pledging to build a modern and crime-free Bihar if voted to power, the Lok Janashakti Party in its manifesto on Saturday said it would work towards forming a "real and secular" government committed to establishing the rule of law.
		The party also offered a slew of sops for the welfare of minorities, Dalits and other weaker sections of society and bringing a legislation guaranteeing employment to all within six months of the LJP coming to power.
		The LJP would provide 10 per cent reservation to Muslims, who are educationally and financially backward, on the pattern of that reserved for other backward castes, he said.
	www.indian-elections.com /partymanifestoes/ljp-bihar.html (223 words)

	HardNews - A many-splintered thing
		The remaining faction of the party is named as Janata Dal (United), which joins hands with the BJP to become a part of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
		The new party is now led by Samata Party president George Fernandes and continues to remain a part of the NDA coalition.
		The party always appears to be on the crossroads, partly due to perpetual squabbles for one-upmanship amongst its leaders.
	www.hardnewsmedia.com /sep2004/ppols.php (1145 words)

	Daily Excelsior.........State
		Lok Jan Shakti Party (LJSP) Member Parliament Mr Ram Chander Paswan has said that his Party supports the Greater Autonomy or the pre-1953 condition as demanded by the National Conference Government in Jammu and Kashmir State.
		He claimed that many leaders of other parties have joined NC and they are certain that this was the party which has capacity to work for the betterment of the masses.
		She alleged that these national level political parties were least concerned with the problems and miseries of Jammu and Kashmir people and were only befooling innocent people by raising hallow slogans.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /02sep15/state.htm (7019 words)

	United Progressive Alliance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is the present ruling coalition of political parties in India.
		UPA was formed soon after the 2004 Lok Sabha elections.
		This alliance is externally supported (supporters are not part of the government) by the four main leftist parties; Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Revolutionary Socialist Party and All India Forward Bloc.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Progressive_Alliance (147 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> Paswan to make representation to CEC on Guj polls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Ahmedabad: Demanding President's rule in Gujarat till the Assembly elections were held, the Lok Jan Shakti Party president Ram Vilash Paswan on July 25 said he would make representation to the Chief Election Commissioner in New Delhi to hold the polls in the state as per schedule.
		The Election Commission (EC) should not yield to the pressure of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for holding early elections in the state as a large number of the riots-affected people were still at relief camps and were yet to resettle at their original places, Paswan said.
		He said his party has undertaken a signature campaign in parts of the state requesting the EC to hold the Assembly polls after total normalcy prevailed in the violence-hit state to enable the riot affected people to exercise their franchise.
	news.indiainfo.com /2002/07/25/25paswan.html (246 words)

	South Asian Media Net
		India are classified as national and state (regi onal) parties based on their realms of influence.
		Until recently, the Congress Party was the main opposition party at the Center (i.e., the central or federal government) and has also formed the government in a majority of Indian states.
		The party is in power in state of Maharashtra with Congress(I) support and some of its members are in Manmohan Singh's cabinet at center, after victory of Congress(I) in 2004.
	www.southasianmedia.net /profile/india/india_politicalparties.cfm (2451 words)

	Events: Congress; Friends in need; Jan 18, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Congress leaders who had held out against alliances right from the moment it was suggested at the party's Pachmarhi conclave in 1998, and broadened at the Shimla brainstorming in July last year, have all come round to the idea.
		NCP president R.R. Patil denied that the party was moving closer to the BJP.
		Within her own party, she will have to iron out the differences that exist over economic policy and programmes like rural development, poverty eradication, employment generation and land reforms.
	www.the-week.com /24jan18/events3.htm (1797 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Himachal Pradesh
		The All-India Lok Jan Shakti Party (AILJSP) has started spade work in the state to initiate a move to form a viable alternative to the Congress and the BJP in Himachal Pradesh as these had failed to deliver the goods on the development and economic fronts.
		The state unit of the BJP has alleged that the murderous attack on Mr Ashish Chaddha, a party leader and councillor of the Dalhousie Municipal Council, was the result of a deep-rooted conspiracy.
		Mr Ramel Singh Badyal, national general secretary of the All-India Lok Jan Shakti Party, in a statement here yesterday stressed upon the need to create a ‘third front’ in the state to provide a better alternative to people who are fed up with policies of the successive Congress and the BJP governments in the state.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20050721/himachal.htm (4094 words)

	Daily Excelsior.........State
		The state unit of the Lok Jan Shakti Party has expressed grave concern over ever-increasing militancy in the State.
		LJSP chief also urged the Director General of Police to make on spot recruitment of migrants including border migrants.
		A release of the party said this high-handedness shows the suppressive policies of the National Conference Government towards the people of Jammu region.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /01mar09/state.htm (3121 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Ludhiana Stories
		A General Secretary of the state unit of the party was arrested along with a terrorist-turned robber on the charges of stealing 17 cars from different places in the city.
		He maintained that the party believed that the party leader had been falsely implicated either because of some political rivalry or at the behest of the other accused, Jasbir Singh, who might be hoping of a reprive if he named some politician.
		The party sources revealed that notwithstanding their apparent reaction to the election surveys, they took these seriously and did last-minute efforts to ensure maximum voting in their strongholds, which is obviously the rural constituency.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2002/20020216/ldh1.htm (4493 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Jamshedpur
		The Mainar MLA from the Lok Jan Shakti Party was remanded in judicial custody in connection with the Umesh Tiwary murder case.
		Apart from the criminal cases in the steel city, the Lok Jan Shakti Party leader is wanted by the police in Ranchi, Hazaribagh and Chhattisgarh.
		Soon after being produced in court, the leader of the Lok Jan Shakti Party was surrounded by his supporters on the court premises.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040611/asp/jamshedpur/story_3357859.asp (465 words)

	Don Surajbhan Singh joins LJP- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		PATNA: Lok Jan Shakti Party supremo, Ram Vilas Paswan said that the ruling NDA would be wiped out in Lok Sabha elections this time.
		Independent MLA from Mokama having criminal antecendent, Surajbhan Singh joined the party in presence of Paswan who also said that he would be given party ticket from Balia Lok Sabha seat.
		He pre-announced that the secular parties would enter into both pre and post-poll alliance with the Congress to prevent the NDA from rcoming back to power at the centre.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/511322.cms (537 words)

	Daily Excelsior.........State
		While expressing his Party’s total solidarity with the border migrants and displaced people from Doda, Poonch and Rajouri districts he demanded that they be paid at par relief and facilities with displaced people from Kashmir Valley.
		He said his Party under the leadership of district president Mr V K Mishra is going to launch a struggle in support of border migrants demands.
		The Lok Jan Shakti state president also expressed concern over the growing unemployment in the state and demanded that the employment avenues be created for the youth.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /01june04/state.htm (5504 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion
		All the important political parties in undivided Bihar had a presence in different regions of the state.
		Similarly, the vote share for the Samata Party increased by 4.8 during the 1998 Lok Sabha and only 1.9 per cent during the 2000 assembly elections.
		Of the 26 Lok Sabha seats the party contested, it won 22 and polled 30.7 per cent votes.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050118/asp/opinion/story_4253867.asp (1451 words)

	Netguruindia News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		January 8: Union communications Minister and Lok Jan Shakti Party national president Ram Vilas Paswan on Sunday announced that by March 2002, telephone facility would be made available in all villages of the country.
		Paswan said all facilities, be it education, health or jobs, should be provided to people in their respective hometowns and villages to check the mass influx of people to metros, specially the national Capital.
		Paswan was the chief guest at the first mass rally organised by the Delhi unit of the Jan Shakti party, being led by Ramveer Singh Bidhuri, who was earlier in the Congress.
	www.netguruindia.com /news/Jan01/09/DEL11.html (307 words)

	outlookindia.com
		Patna, May 22 (PTI) President of the dissolved unit of the Lok Jan Shakti Party (LJP) Narendra Singh today ruled out the possibility of a split in the state unit and said the elected LJP MLAs were in favour of formation of a non-RJD government in Bihar.
		He, however, said due to the stubborn attitude of the party President, Ram Vilas Paswan, the elected LJP MLAs were in a rebellious mood as they felt that formation of a RJD government was in the offing.
		Singh said the LJP leaders were in favour of formation of non-RJD government in the state and suggested that the party president should shelve his "stubborn" attitude so that a non-RJD government could be formed in the state with the support of 29 mlas of the party.
	www.outlookindia.com /pti_print.asp?id=299732 (176 words)

	Five-party front to contest Delhi assembly polls - Assembly Elections 2003 - HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		However, other parties are not lagging behind in at least making their presence felt in almost all 70 seats, as a Third Front.
		The parties of the proposed Third Front are: Ram Vilas Paswan's Lok Jan Shakti Party, Chandra Shekhar's Samajwadi Janata Party, VP Singh's Jan Chetna Manch, Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party and HD Deve Gowda's Janata Dal (Secular).
		The parties have already met for the first round of informal talks, and have decided to contest all 70 seats in the assembly, sources added.
	www.hindustantimes.com /2005/Jul/22/6560_388559,001600290006.htm (356 words)

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		Almost all the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) partners have warned the Lok Jan Shakti Party (LJP) leader and Union Minister, Ram Vilas Paswan, that they would not countenance any attempt on his part to put together a Ministry in Bihar with the direct or indirect support of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
		The Communist Party of India general secretary, A.B. Bardhan, was quoted as making similar observations in Chandigarh where his party is holding its 19th Congress.
		The party's general secretary, Ambika Soni, said: "Who is meeting whom is not the issue.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2005040307050800.htm&date=2005/04/03/&prd=th& (351 words)

	Changing political scenario,Political Opinion, News Analysis, India News Online
		The party, though contesting a larger number of seats than the NCP, was pushed to the second place.
		The Lok Jan Shakti party of Ram Bilas Paswan has already parted company with Lalu Prasad Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal in the state and is searching for new allies to face the electorate in the coming Assembly elections.
		Though some haggling is going on between the Lok Jan Shakti Party and the Janata Dal United on the terms for facing the voters together in Bihar, there is a political compulsion for both to reach an agreement.
	news.indiamart.com /news-analysis/changing-political-s-8068.html (717 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| India coalition defeats censure vote
		Earlier the main opposition leader, Sonia Gandhi told parliament the Gujarat issue was a defining moment for all Indians and that government had collapsed in the state.
		Mr Paswan belongs to the Lok Jan Shakti party, which has four parliamentary seats and is one of more than 20 parties making up the federal coalition.
		The former minister, who belongs to the Lok Jan Shakti party, said it would be a sad development if the censure motion were not passed.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/1960988.stm (510 words)

	Allies then, foes now - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		On the Western shore the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is testing the ground to evolve an alliance in Maharashtra with the Congress party and the BJP.
		In the Eastern part in Bihar backward leader and President of the Lok Jan Shakti Party Ram Vilas Paswan is hobnobbing with the Congress as well as the BJP.
		The iron lady of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) which courted the BJP in Uttar Pradesh before calling it quits last year is still fretting and fuming with the saffron brigade for setting off the CBI on her in the Taj Corridor project scandal.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jan182004/sl1.asp (1156 words)

	Debating India - Not against secular alliance: Paswan
		HYDERABAD: Lok Jan Shakti Party president Ram Vilas Paswan is not opposed to the formation of a secular alliance for the Assembly elections in Bihar.
		The LJP would continue to champion the cause of Dalits and Muslims and consolidate the vote bank of the weaker sections so that the party won at least 100 seats in the next Assembly elections.
		My only contention was that the LJP would support the party which nominated a Muslim as the Chief Minister but RJD chief Lalu Prasad and the JD (U) leadership were not willing to concede the major demand.
	india.eu.org /2676.html (499 words)

	Sonia gets social as polls near- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		At four in the evening, the Congress president will be at a tea party hosted by a man who wouldn't call her leader.
		Then, Sonia had pulled the rug because K Karunanidhi's party and its affiliates were soft on the LTTE, accused of killing her husband and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
		She is not taking chances - the last time she was close to forming government, a peeved Samajwadi Party refused to make up the numbers because Amar Singh had found her hospitality wanting.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-424205,prtpage-1.cms (489 words)

	Cong gaining ground in Rajasthan - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		The assembly election ‘party’ is over for the saffron with the Congress steadily breathing back and trying to stand erect on its feet before May 5.
		Jhunjhunu, known as ‘Kerala of Rajasthan’ for it highest women literacy in the State, is witnessing an evenly poised electoral contest between Sisram Ola, the Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister, and the BJP woman candidate Santosh Ahlawat.
		The Congress is hoping to retain the Jhunjhunu Lok Sabha seat with the hope that four months incumbency of the BJP government would bring back the Jat vote back to the party now that Ashok Gehlot, the then Congress chief minister and his government (the twin-factor that alienated Jats) are not in the scene.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/may032004/iv12.asp (664 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> LJS to ally with Cong in Guj to defeat BJP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Ahmedabad: Former Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan-led Lok Jan Shakti (LJS) party would support Congress in the upcoming Gujarat polls and an understanding with the party was being worked out.
		Addressing reporters after the two-day national executive committee meeting of the party in Ahmedabad on November 18, Paswan said his party was discussing alliance with Congress and can "sacrifice" anything to defeat BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) in the polls for the peace and integrity of the nation.
		The party might not field candidates against the Congress and an understanding to this effect was being worked out, Paswan added.
	news.indiainfo.com /2002/11/18/18paswan.html (267 words)

	Women still struggling for place in MP politics - Assembly Elections 2003 - HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		This struggle starts right at the beginning and it hardly matters that one of the major parties contending to form the next government is projecting a woman as a chief minister.
		Among the political parties, the Bharatiya Janata Party, which is projecting a woman as its chief ministerial candidate, has come out with the poorest show as far as representation of the fair sex is concerned.
		The Samajwadi Party has fielded 11, the Lok Jan Shakti Party - eight, the Gondwana Ganatantra Party - seven and the Republic Party of India - three.
	www.hindustantimes.com /2005/Jul/18/6560_476070,001600290008.htm (827 words)

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