Janata Dal (Secular)
The Janata Dal ( Secular ) ( Kannada: ಜನತಾ ದಳ ( ಜಾತ್ಯಾತೀತ ) ), abbreviated JD (S ), is an Indian regional party. It was created in 1999 under the leadership of former Indian Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda as a splinter group from the Janata Dal and has its basis primarily in the state of Karnataka. In addition, it takes about elections in the state of Kerala. From 2004 to 2007, the JD (S ) was involved in the government of Karnataka, between 2006 and 2007 she worked with the Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy ( Prime Minister ) of the state.
The party symbol of the JD (S ) represents a peasant woman carrying the rice stalks on her head, the party color is green.
History
The roots of the Janata Dal ( Secular ) are the all-India party Janata Dal ( JD, " People's Party "). This in turn had been founded in 1988 from parts of the Janata Party, which had been under the emergency legislation of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ( 1975-1977 ) was formed as a united opposition force. The Janata Dal presented 1990-1991 and 1996-1998 the Indian Prime Minister. After she lost the elections to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP ) in 1998, disintegrated the Janata Dal in a number of splinter groups: One group was divided as Janata Dal ( United) (JD (U) ), in order, the BJP -led National Democratic Alliance to join. In response, formed in 1999, under HD Deve Gowda, who from 1996 to 1997 held the office of Indian Prime Minister for the JD, the Janata Dal ( Secular ). The name suffix Secular ( " secular" ) refers to the rejection of the Hindu nationalist politics of the BJP.
The Janata Dal ( Secular ) was mainly in the state of Karnataka, home of the party founder, HD Deve Gowda, create a base. Already its predecessor organizations had been successful in Karnataka: The Janata Party presented from 1983 to 1988, the Janata Dal from 1988 to 1989 and again from 1994 to 1999, the government of the state. At the Federal State election in 1999 in Karnataka, the competing factions JD (S) and JD (U) the voices took but off against each other, so that the JD (S ) won only 10 of 224 seats and the Congress party won the election. At the next election in 2004, the Karnataka JD (S ) could improve their performance and went with 58 MEPs, as the third strongest party after BJP and Congress in the Parliament. To prevent formation of a government of the BJP, which had no outright majority, formed the Congress and JD (S ) of a coalition government with the Congress politician N. Dharam Singh as Chief Minister ( head of government). After less than two years but broke the JD (S ) headed by HD Kumaraswamy, the son of the party founder, HD Deve Gowda, the coalition and formed an alliance with the BJP. It was agreed that HD Kumaraswamy to take over by the BJP for the second half of the remaining term of the office of Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa for the first and. In February 2006, HD Kumaraswamy was sworn in as Chief Minister. As BS Yeddyurappa should move up in October 2007 in the Office of the Chief Minister, Kumaraswamy refused to resign but what led to the break of the coalition and the imposition of President's rule. The overdue re-election in 2008 decided the BJP itself, the JD (S ) was again only the third strongest with 28 constituencies gained force. At the next election in 2013, the JD (S ) could not benefit from the anti - BJP sentiment: While the Congress party won the elections with an absolute majority, the JD (S ) came up with 40 seats on a par with the BJP to second place. In the highly caste loyalties policy Karnataka, JD (S ) is supported mainly by the Vokkaliga, a sizeable and influential political caste. Traditionally wins the JD (S ) in the parliamentary elections most constituencies in the Vokkaliga - dominated areas Südkarnatakas.
Except in Karnataka, JD (S ) also occurs in the state of Kerala for election, but plays only a minor role there. At the last federal state election in 2011, she took as part of an electoral alliance under the leadership of the two Communist parties Communist Party of India ( Marxist) (CPI (M)) and Communist Party of India (CPI ) part. It provides four out of 140 seats in parliament Kerala.
In the elections to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the total Indian Parliament, the JD (S ) in Karnataka takes. In 2004, she decided two of 28 constituencies in Karnataka for themselves. In 2009 she joined the coalition of leftist Third Front and won three out of 21 constituencies in which they took.