Bharatiya Kranti Dal

Bharatiya Kranti Dal
Founder	Charan Singh
Founded	October 1967
Succeeded by	Bharatiya Lok Dal
Political position	Right-wing [1]
Colours	Green
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Bharatiya Kranti Dal (lit. 'Indian Revolution Party') was a political party in India, founded by Chaudhary Charan Singh, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. The party was founded at a meeting in Lucknow in October 1967. ^[2] After the 1977 general election, the successor party of the BKD, Bharatiya Lok Dal was merged into the Janata Party. ^[3]

Charan Singh, founder of Bharatiya Kranti Dal

The seeds for the formation of BKD were sown on 9 April 1967, when Humayun Kabir organised a meeting of all non-Congress Chief Ministers of India and other important leaders in Delhi. ^{[4] : 37} At Indore session of BKD in November 1967, Mahamaya Prasad Sinha was elected as first chairman of the party. ^{[4] : 83}

List of chief ministers

Name	State	Term start	Term end
Charan Singh	Uttar Pradesh	3 April 1967	25 February 1968
Charan Singh	Uttar Pradesh	18 February 1970	1 October 1970

See also

• Indian National Congress breakaway parties

References

1. Singh, Mahendra Prasad (1981). Split in a Predominant Party: The Indian National Congress in 1969. Abhinav publications. p. 41. ISBN   9788170171409 . Retrieved 18 July 2024. The Bharatiya Kranti Dal(BKD) and the Akali Dal, two other right-wing parties...
2. Wallace, Paul. India: The Dispersion of Political Power Paul Wallace , in Asian Survey, Vol. 8, No. 2, A Survey of Asia in 1967: Part II. (Feb., 1968), pp. 87-96.
3. E.M.S. Namboodiripad. The Communist Party in Kerala — Six Decades of Struggle and Advance. New Delhi: National Book Centre, 1994. p. 265-266
4. Brass, Paul R. (2014). An Indian Political Life: Charan Singh and Congress Politics, 1967 to 1987 - Vol.3 (The Politics of Northern India). Sage India. ISBN   978-9351500322.