Leadership

Who is accountable, and for what

Every office bearer of this party is elected, named in public, and answerable for a defined portfolio. Nobody holds a position because of who they are related to.

Rajat Singh, founder of the Rashtriya Independent Party
Rajat Singh, Founder

Rajat Singh

Founder. Advocate, teacher, builder.

Rajat has spent over a decade in a classroom and taught more than fifteen thousand students. Teaching at that scale settles one question early: almost nobody is short of ability, and almost everybody is short of a map.

He practises as an advocate and takes up matters for people who would otherwise never reach a courtroom. That work is where the party's insistence on legal literacy comes from. A citizen who does not know their remedy does not, in any practical sense, have one.

He built LAWL, a legal technology platform made to put legal help within reach of people who cannot afford a retainer. This party applies the same instinct to politics. Take something that looks sealed shut, work out how it actually opens, then teach that to anybody who asks.

He holds a Diploma in Civil Engineering and a BSc in Physics, which is a longer way of saying he was trained to check whether a structure holds before admiring it.

Students taught
15,000
Years teaching
10
  • Practising advocate
  • Founder of LAWL
  • Diploma, Civil Engineering
  • BSc, Physics

The national executive

These offices are defined by our constitution and filled by election, not appointment. Each is published here with the holder's name, the date they took office, and the term they were elected for.

  • National President

    Custodian of the manifesto and the constitution. Chairs the national executive.

    Election pending
  • General Secretary

    Runs organisation, state units, and the training curriculum.

    Election pending
  • Treasurer

    Accountable for the contribution register, audited accounts, and expenditure returns.

    Election pending
  • Secretary, Legal

    Compliance with the Representation of the People Act and Election Commission directions.

    Election pending
  • Secretary, Communications

    Press, spokespersons, and the digital team that trains candidate units.

    Election pending
  • Convenor, RIP Yuva

    The student and youth wing, and the pipeline from campus to booth committee.

    Election pending

State leadership

State units are being constituted

A state committee is formed once a state has enough trained members to staff its districts honestly. We would rather announce four real units than twenty letterhead ones. Each state president appears here with their district, their portfolio, and the date they were elected.

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How office bearers are elected

Booth committees elect district units. District units elect the state committee. State committees elect the national executive. Terms are fixed and results are filed with the Election Commission, as the law requires of every registered party.

No office in this party may be held by two members of the same family at the same time. That clause is in our constitution rather than in a speech, because the difference between the two is the whole argument.

Read the constitution