Socialist Janata Party is broke away from Janata Dal (S). This party is part of United Democratic Front

United Democratic Front (India)

United Democratic Front is an alliance of political parties of Kerala state in India. This alliance is led by the Indian National Congress....

 in Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

 .

History

The Kerala unit of the Janata Dal (S) is a part of the CPI (M)-led Left Democratic Front

Left Democratic Front

Left Democratic Front is a coalition of left winged political parties in the state of Kerala, in India. This is one of the two major political coalitions in Kerala, each of which have been in power alternatively for the last two decades. LDF is the coalition that is presently in oppposition...

. The CPI(M)-JD(S) ties came under strain around 2008. Things worsened when the CPI(M) failed to give the JD(S) a ticket for the Kozhikode Lok Sabha constituency

Kozhikode (Lok Sabha constituency)

-Assembly segments:Kozhikode Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments:#Balusseri#Koduvally#Kozhikode North#Kozhikode South#Beypore#Kunnamangalam#Elathur...

 in the lok sabha election, 2009

Indian general election, 2009

India held general elections to the 15th Lok Sabha in five phases between 16 April 2009 and 13 May 2009. With an electorate of 714 million , it was the largest democratic election in the world to date.By constitutional requirement, elections to the Lok Sabha must be...

. A portion of the JD(S) led by M.P. Veerendra Kumar aligned with the United Democratic Front

United Democratic Front (India)

United Democratic Front is an alliance of political parties of Kerala state in India. This alliance is led by the Indian National Congress....

 and launched the Socialist Janata (Democratic) Party on August 7, 2010.

Leaders

• M.P. Veerendra Kumar
• Krishnan Kutty
• K. P. Mohanan
  K. P. Mohanan
  K. P. Mohanan is the General Secretary of Socialist Janata Party based in Kerala, India. SJD is part of Congress-led United Democratic Front. He is the son of Ex-minister P. R. Kurup....
  
  
• M.V. Shreyams Kumar
• Varghese George

External links

• http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/article/08wK3983Wx9vN?q=janata+party