Rashtriya Janata Dal - National Peoples Party is one of the major political party in India. The party was founded in 1997 by Laloo Prasad Yadav. It has a strong presence in Bihar under the leadership of Laloo Yadav and his wife Rabri Devi. Traditionally, the mass base of the party has been Yadavs and Muslims, two large and relatively politically active segments of Bihar's population.
RJD lost power after the elections in 2005, when a Nitish Kumar-led coalition NDA government wrested power from Rabri Devi, who had been chief minister of the state for XX years. The RJD is also a constituent of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)led by the Congress at the Centre.Following the performance of the RJD in the last few elections, the Election Commission has now accorded it the status of a recognized national level party in 2008. RJD recently came into the headlines for its allegedly clandestine seat-sharing deal with Ram Vilas Paswans Lok Jana Shakti Party, leaving just three seats for the Congress. According to sources, the alliance between Congress and RJD is over now. The party will combine with Lok Janata Party leaving only three seats for the Congress. Now, with the Congress declaring its intentions to contest 37 seats in Bihar, RJDs marriage with the Congress in the UPA seems to be hanging a question mark.
| List of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)candidates for Lok Sabha Election 2009 | |||
| S.No | State Name | Constituency Name | Candidate Name |
| 1 | Bihar | Khagaria | Rabindra Kumar Rana |
| 2 | Bihar | Karakat | Kanti Singh |
| 3 | Bihar | Valmiki Nagar | Raghunath Jha |
| 4 | Bihar | Jhanjharpur | Devendra Prasad Yadav |
| 5 | Bihar | Ujiarpur | Alok Kumar Mehta |
| 6 | Bihar | Gaya | Ramjee Manjhi |
| 7 | Bihar | Gopalganj | Anil Kumar |
| 8 | Bihar | Bhagalpur | Shakuni Choudhary |
| 9 | Bihar | Jamui | Shyam Rajak |
| 10 | Bihar | Jahanabad | Surendra Prasad Yadav |
| 11 | Bihar | Buxar | Jagdanand Singh |
| 12 | Bihar | Munger | Ram Badan Rai |
| 13 | Bihar | Siwan | Hina Shahab |
| 14 | Bihar | Sasaram | Lalan Paswan |
| 15 | Bihar | Kishanganj | Md Taslimuddin |
| 16 | Bihar | Vaishali | Dr Raghuvansh Prasad Singh |
| 17 | Bihar | Banka | Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav |
| 18 | Bihar | Aurangabad | Shakeel Ahmed Khan |
| 19 | Bihar | Darbhanga | Mohd Ali Ashraf Fatmi |
| 20 | Bihar | Saran | Lalu Prasad |
| 21 | Bihar | Madhubani | Abdul Bari Siddiqui |
| 22 | Bihar | Sheohar | Sitaram Singh |
| 23 | Bihar | Purvi Champaran | Akhilesh Prasad Singh |
Shiv Sena was formed by Balasaheb Thackeray in 1966. The party came into existence to promote the interests of 'sons of the soil,' Maharashtrian youth. The party maintains its Hindutva ideology and is a right-wing political party. It has been accused of instigating many riots in the state, including the Mumbai riots of the late 1960s, the Bhiwandi riots in 1984 and the Mumbai riots of 1992-93.
Shiv Sena says that it is a nationalistic party and does not discriminate against any religion, caste and creed. They believe in nationalism and will go to any extent to eliminate the traitors and enemies of India. 
Jana Sangha was a political party founded in 1951 which later came to be known as Bhartiya Janata Party. Throughout the Congress regime it remained one of the major opposition parties, guiding the rout to be taken by the opposition.
During 1986 elections it made it's presence felt in a string way and after that the popularity has been rising by the day. In 1996 it emerged as a single largest party in a hung parliament and then in 1999 came into power as a part of NDA Alliance under the leadership of Shri. Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The BJP led NDA alliance completed its five year regime in year 2004.
The oldest Indian political party, the Indian National Congress was formed in 1885 and was the most powerful force behind the country's struggle for independence It also held power for most years after independence. The party has also been instrumental in the making or fall of non-Congress governments at the centre when it was out of power.
The Party boasts of the leadership of what can be said the first political family of the country. The dynasty goes back to the time of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister. His daughter, Indira Gandhi, active during the years of the freedom struggle was the natural heir to the throne. The suspension of democratic institutions during emergency earned her many critics and also led to the birth of many anti-Congress factions. Indira Gandhi was assassinated in 1984. Rajiv Gandhi, then a political novice, swept the polls through the apparent sympathy wave. His tragic assassination again brought the Congress to power in 1991, with PV Narasimha Rao as the Prime Minister. The Congress popularity nose-dived mainly due to the involvement of its leaders, including Narasimha Rao, in the vote buying case during a confidence vote and other corruption charges.
