JJP was founded on 9 December 2018 by Dushyant Chautala with the ideology of Devi Lal, who served as Deputy Prime Minister of India.

JJP emerged from a split in the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) which itself had been cause by infighting among the Chautala family.

[2][3] The JJP was formally launched at a rally in Jind in December 2018 by Dushyant Chautala[4] who held a seat in the Lok Sabha of the national Parliament of India, from when he was an INLD member.

Dushyant's father, Ajay, absent from the Jind rally, being at that time in jail in relation to an alleged scam, as also was Om Prakash Chautala.

Despite now being in opposite political factions, and claiming that the JJP was standing for values which the INLD had abandoned, Dushyant nonetheless asked supporters at the rally to chant "Long Live OP Chautala".