Dushyant Chautala's JJP emerges as key player in Haryana politics

Five years after he became the youngest MP at the age of 26, Dushyant Chautala finds himself leading a fledgling party which will lock horns with the BJP and the Congress -- two of India's oldest political parties, in the Lok Sabha polls in Haryana.

For the great-grandson of former deputy prime minister Devi Lal, politics may be in his blood, but taking a plunge into active politics was not a priority until he fell out with his uncle and Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) secretary general Abhay Chautala last year.

The feud, which became Haryana's biggest political spectacle of 2018, saw Dushyant Chautala, his father Ajay Chautala and brother Digvijay Chautala being expelled from the party by his grandfather and INLD president Om Prakash Chautala.

With his father serving a 10-year prison term in 2013 teachers' recruitment scam, Dushyant Chautala launched a new party, Jannayak Janata Party (JJP), in December 2018.

Recalling his journey over the last five years, Dushyant Chautala told PTI, "There has been a lot of change, I had to leave my education, get into politics and today I am leading a party. It requires drastic effort and big changes."
Speaking about his work, Dushyant Chautala said, "First passport Seva Kendra was opened in Hisar in February 2017. We built washing yard lines, now we have direct connectivity to Coimbatore, Secunderabad, Kolkata, Haridwar from Hisar. We have the first WiFi village."