Lucknow: Rashtriya Lok Dal has chosen Jayant Chaudhary as the new president of the party. 34 executive members of the party stamped the name of the party’s national vice-president Jayant Chaudhary in a virtual meeting. Jayant Chaudhary, son of former Union minister late Ajit Singh, has been elected the new national president of the party.
The decision to elevate the 42-year-old Chaudhary, who was till now the party vice president, was taken during a virtual meeting of the party’s national executive, the RLD statement read.
During the meeting, party’s General Secretary Trilok Tyagi proposed Jayant’s name for the post of national president which was approved by former MP and national general secretary Munshiram Pal and unanimously supported by all members of the national executive, it added.
Upon his appointment as the new RLD chief, Chaudhary expressed gratitude towards party members and called on them to follow the footsteps of party ideologues Chaudhary Charan Singh and Ajit Singh.
His father Ajit Singh had served as Union minister and was a multiple-time parliamentarian.
Jayant Chaudhary, a former Lok Sabha MP, graduated from Delhi University and in 2002 completed masters in accounting and finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
