Indian National Lok Dal
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Indian National Lok Dal
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| Abbreviation | INLD |
| Leader | Om Prakash Chautala |
| Chairperson | Om Prakash Chautala |
| Secretary-General | Ajay Singh Chautala |
| Lok Sabha leader | Dushyant Chautala |
| Founder | Chaudhary Devi Lal |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Headquarters | 18, Janpath, New Delhi, India-110011. |
| Political position | Centre |
| ECI Status | State Party |
| Alliance | Janata Parivar (2015-Present) |
| Seats in Lok Sabha |
2 / 545
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| Seats in Rajya Sabha |
1 / 245
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The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) is a political party in India, in the state of Haryana. INLD was founded in October 1996 as Haryana Lok Dal (Rashtriya) by Choudhary Devi Lal, who served as Deputy Prime Minister of India in the V.P. Singh's Cabinet and Chief Minister of Haryana twice. His son Om Prakash Chautala is the current president & Chautala's elder son Ajay Singh Chautala is the current General Secretary.
According to the official website of the Indian National Lok Dal, Devi Lal formed Bharatiya Lok Dal in 1974 after winning the election from Rori constituency to the Haryana Legislative Assembly, while the INLD was founded in the year 1987 after assembly election. The 1982 and 1987 elections were fought under the name Lok Dal (LKD). The party renamed into its current name in 1998. The party was a member of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), and thus part of the Bharatiya Janata Party led government from 1998 to 2004 at the Federal level.
INLD has performed poorly in all the four consecutive general elections held since 1998. It lost consecutive assembly elections for Haryana in 2005, 2009 and 2013. It failed to win any seats in Lok Sabha in 2004 and 2009 general elections, despite being in alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party in 2009.
In the Lok Sabha elections 1999, the INLD had an electoral alliance with BJP in Haryana. Each party contested five of the ten seats in the state. All ten were elected.
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