JDU Bihar election 2025

Janata Dal (United)

Founded in:2003
Founders/first leaders:Nitish Kumar, Sharad Yadav, George Fernandes
Main leaders:Nitish Kumar, Umesh Singh Kushwaha
Alliance:NDA
Description:Janata Dal (United) or JDU was founded on October 30, 2003, by the merger of the then Janata Dal, the Lok Shakti Party and Samata Party under the leadership of Sharad Yadav, George Fernandes and Nitish Kumar. The party's election symbol is 'arrow' and its stated ideology is based on socialism, social justice, inclusive development, and secularism. The party's main base is Bihar, but it also has a presence in Jharkhand, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh. JDU won the Bihar assembly elections in 2005 in alliance with BJP and Nitish Kumar became CM for the first time. In the 2010 election, the JDU-BJP alliance won 206 out of 243 seats, of which JDU got 115 seats. In 2013, JDU broke the 17-year-old alliance with the BJP as Nitish Kumar disagreed with Narendra Modi as the face of the NDA. In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, JDU won only two seats, after which Nitish Kumar resigned as CM and Jitan Ram Manjhi took his place. In the 2015 Bihar assembly elections, the JDU formed a Grand Alliance with the RJD and Congress; and won 178 seats for Nitish to again became the CM. In the 2024 Lok Sabha election, JDU won 12 seats and became the seventh largest party in Parliament. Currently, the JDU is leading the NDA government in Bihar and Nitish Kumar has become the longest-serving CM of the state.