Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad

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Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad
AbbreviationRRP
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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