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| Ambedkar Samaj Party |
Ambedkar Samaj Party (Ambedkar Society Party) is a political party in India, that fights for the rights of dalits. The party is opposed to Hindu nationalism, which it sees as representing an upper caste minority. ASP claims that Bahujan Samaj Party has betrayed dalits through its alliance with BJP. The leader of ASP is Tej Singh. (references) |
| Bahujan Samaj Party |
The Bahujan Samaj Party (Hindi: बहुजन समाज पार्टी) is a political party in India. It is a party formed to represent both low caste and Dalit (untouchable) persons, those at the bottom of India's caste system. The BSP has two high-profile, charismatic leaders, Kanshi Ram and Mayawati. In the 13th Lok Sabha (1999-2004) it had 14 (out of 545) members. Though avowedly a national party, the BSP has yet to exert much influence outside of the large state of Uttar Pradesh, whose government the party has led several times. The deep and mutual hostility between the BSP and the Samajwadi Party - the other leading state party in Uttar Pradesh, whose support is mainly OBC or kshatriya - has led the BSP into government with its erstwhile ideological enemies, the Bharatiya Janata Party (whose leadership is primarily brahmin). (references) |
| Bahujan Samaj Party (Ambedkar) |
Bahujan Samaj Party (Ambedkar), splinter-group of Bahujan Samaj Party in Punjab and Haryana, India. The party president was Devi Dass Nahar and the general secretary was Vijay Kumar Hans (later leader of Democratic Bharatiya Samaj Party). The party themselves claimed to have 100 000 party workers (a gross exaggeration). (references) |
| Bahujan Samaj Party (Kainth) |
Bahujan Samaj Party (Kainth), a splinter group of Bahujan Samaj Party in Punjab. BSP(K) was founded on October 30 2004. BSP(K) is led by Satnam Singh Kainth (ex MP and ex-president of Democratic Bahujan Samaj Morcha). Kainth had re-joined BSP ahead of the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, but was later expelled. (references) |
| Bahujan Samaj Party (Nepal) |
Bahujan Samaj Party, Nepal (Majority Society Party, Nepal) is a Nepalese political party. It is formed with inspiration of the Indian Bahujan Samaj Party. It is led by Madan Bahadur Pradhan. In the 1999 general elections it had 3 candidates. The party got 0,01% of the votes nationwide. (references) |
| Brahmo Samaj |
Brahmo Samaj is a social and religious movement founded in Kolkata, India in 1828 by Raja Ram Mohan Roy. He was influenced by western thought and was one of the first Indians to visit Europe. He died in Bristol, England. The Brahmo Samaj movement thereafter resulted in the Brahmo religion in 1850 founded by Debendranath Tagore — better known as the father of Rabindranath Tagore. (references) |
| Democratic Bahujan Samaj Morcha |
Democratic Bahujan Samaj Morcha (Democratic Majority Society Front) was a political party in India, based in the state of Punjab. DBSM was formed on 20 December 1997 as a break-away from Bahujan Samaj Party, in protest to the alliance of BSP with the Indian National Congress in the state. DBSM was led by Satnam Singh Kainth. DBSM allied themselves with Shiromani Akali Dal and BJP. (references) |
| Democratic Bharatiya Samaj Party |
Democratic Bharatiya Samaj Party, political party in Punjab, India. The party president is Vijay Kumar Hans. In the Lok Sabha elections 2004 DBSP had put up two candidates, Vijay Kumar Hans from Jullundur (1 288 votes, 0,17%) and Parminder Singh Qaumi from Bhatinda (5 429 votes, 0,71%). In the Punjab assembly elections 2002 the party had put up nine candidates, who together got 3 189 votes. (references) |
| General Samaj Party |
General Samaj Party is a political party in the Indian state of Punjab. GSP was founded in 2002. GSP opposes affirmative action quotas. (references) |
| Jantantrik Bahujan Samaj Party |
Jantantrik Bahujan Samaj Party (Demokratic Majority Society Party), splinter-group of Bahujan Samaj Party formed in 1997 when 19 BSP Members of the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh broke away. JBSP allied themselves with BJP and joined the National Democratic Alliance. In UP they gave their support to Kalyan Singh's government. 17 out of the JBSP MLAs were inducted as ministers in the state government. The president of JBSP was DP Yadav (Rajya Sabha MP) and the general secretary Shahidullah Khan. (references) |
| Loktantrik Bahujan Samaj Party |
Loktantrik Bahujan Samaj Party (Democratic Majority Society Party), splinter-group of Bahujan Samaj Party formed in september 2003 when 37 Members of the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh broke away. Party leader was Haji Yakub. In october the same year LBSP merged with the Samajwadi Party. The formation of LBSP was a way to avoid sanction under the Anti-Defecation Law, and thus LBSP was just a pseudo-party (like Democratic Congress Party, etc.). (references) |
| Manav Samaj Seva Party |
Manav Samaj Seva Party (Human Society Service Party), a political party in Haryana, India. MSSP was formed by by the ex-president of the Bahujan Samaj Party Haryana state committee and MP, Aman Kumar Nagra, on May 12 2002. (references) |
| Pragatisheel Bahujan Samaj Party |
Pragatisheel Bahujan Samaj Party, splinter-group of Bahujan Samaj Party in Madhya Pradesh. PBSP was formed on October 27 1999, when four out of eleven BSP members of the legislative assembly of Madhya Pradesh broke away. (references) |
| Pragatisheel Manav Samaj Party |
Pragatisheel Manav Samaj Party, a political party in Uttar Pradesh, India. PMSP is based amongst the Bind and Mallah communities. (references) |
| Samata Samaj Party |
Samata Samaj Party, was a political party in India. SSP was formed by expelled Bahujan Samaj Party leader Phool Singh Baraiyya (formerly BSP Madhya Pradesh state president) on October 30 2003. Baraiyya became the party president and Sant Kumar (also expelled from BSP) vice-president. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.
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