Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad

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Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad
Founder Swami Karpatri
Founded1948
Dissolved1971
Merged into Bhartiya Jana Sangh
Ideology Hindutva
Hindu Nationalism
Anti-Hindu Code Bill
Political position Far-Right

Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad (RRP, "All India Council of Ram's Kingdom") was an Indian Hindu nationalist political party founded by Swami Karpatri in 1948. [1] The RRP won three Lok Sabha seats in the 1952 elections to the national Parliament and two in 1962. [2] In 1952, 1957 and 1962, it won several dozen Vidhan Sabha seats, all in the Hindi belt, mostly in Rajasthan. Like other Hindutva-based parties, the RRP fought against the implementation of the Hindu code bills in India. [3] The party eventually merged into the Jana Sangh, the precursor to the Bharatiya Janata Party. [3]

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Electoral performance

Lok Sabha

YearLegislatureParty leaderSeats wonSeats changedPercentage

(of votes)

Votes swingPopular votesOutcome
1952 1st Lok Sabha Swami Karpatri 3newly formed1.97%newly formed20,91,898
1957 2nd Lok Sabha 0
Decrease2.svg3
0.38%Decrease2.svg1.59%4,60,838
1962 3rd Lok Sabha 2
Increase2.svg2
0.60%Increase2.svg0.22%6,88,990

Notes

  1. Kumar, Sajjan (4 August 2020). "The conservative challenge to Hindutva". The Hindu. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  2. "Biographical sketches of Third Lok Sabha". National Informatics Centre, Government of India. Archived from the original on 19 May 2006. Retrieved 14 August 2006.
  3. 1 2 LS Herdenia. "Uniform Civil Code: How RSS and Hindu swamis fought tooth and nail the Hindu Code Bill".

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