Jayant Chaudhary straining every nerve and sinew to put RLD back on the map

Chaudhary is ambitious, but is realistic enough to know his limitations

He’s really busy. Jayant Chaudhary, the grandson of India’s fifth Prime Minister, Chaudhary Charan Singh, is literally speaking adding capital to the family business, politics. The President of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) after his father and former Union minister, Ajit Singh, died in May last year, is the youngest Chaudhary in town. But he’s had two defecting to his party — has negotiated a tie-up with Samajwadi Party, and was one of the few political leaders to have been allowed on the stage when farmers in western Uttar Pradesh (UP) were protesting against agri-laws. Avatar Singh Bhadana, who represented