The upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly elections are being touted as an existential battle for Rashtriya Lok Dal Chief Jayant Chaudhary and his party. The 43-year-old has been leading the RLD since his father and the party's Founder President Ajit Singh died due to Covid in May last year. His focus is on RLD's political turf - the Jat dominated belt in Western UP; he is hoping to recover lost ground in the aftermath of the farmers' protests.