The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is a national level political party in India that was formed to represent Bahujans,referring to Scheduled Castes,Scheduled Tribes,and Other Backward Classes (OBC),along with religious minorities. According to Kanshi Ram,when he founded the party in 1984,the Bahujans comprised 85 percent of India's population,but were divided into 6,000 different castes. The party claims to be inspired by the philosophy of Gautama Buddha,B. R. Ambedkar,Mahatma Jyotiba Phule,Narayana Guru,Periyar E. V. Ramasamy and Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj. Kanshi Ram named his protégée,Mayawati,as his successor in 2001. The BSP has its main base in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh where it was the second-largest party in the 2019 Indian general election with 19.3% of votes and third-largest in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election with 12.88% of votes. Its election symbol is an elephant which is the same symbol historically used by Dr. Ambedkar's Scheduled Castes Federation.
Rajesh Verma is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was elected to the 13th Lok Sabha in 1999,the 14th Lok Sabha in 2004,the 16th Lok Sabha in 2014 and the 17th Lok Sabha in 2019 from Sitapur constituency in Uttar Pradesh state. In 2019 he won his fourth 4th election in Sitapur as a BJP candidate by 101,000 votes.
Afzal Ansari is an Indian politician of the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Member of Parliament (MP) of India for Ghazipur constituency,Uttar Pradesh. He won the 2004 general Lok Sabha election on the Samajwadi Party ticket.
Satya Pal Singh Baghel is an Indian politician and current Minister of State in the Ministry of Law and Justice in second run of Narendra Modi government. A member of Bharatiya Janata Party,he got elected to 17th Lok Sabha from Agra. He previously was a member of Samajwadi Party,in which he got elected to Lok Sabha thrice and to Rajya Sabha once as a member of Bahujan Samajwadi Party.
Mukhtar Ansari is an Indian gangster and politician from Uttar Pradesh. He has been elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Mau constituency five times,including twice as a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate.
Shri Isam Singh a politician from Bahujan Samaj Party and was a former Member of the Parliament of India representing Uttar Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Indian Parliament.
Haji Yaqoob Qureshi is a Former Minister of Uttar Pradesh Government. He is elected former MLA of Bahujan Samaj Party.
{{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = MLA | name = Dara Singh Chauhan | honorific-suffix = | image = | alt = | caption = | office = Minister of Forest,Environment,Zoological Garden
Government of Uttar Pradesh | term_start = March 2017 | term_end = 12 January 2022 | 1blankname = Chief Minister | 1namedata = Yogi Adityanath | constituency = | predecessor = Durga Prasad Yadav | successor = | constituency2 = [[Ghosi |],Mau | office2 = MLA,17th Legislative Assembly | term_start2 = March 2017 | term_end2 = March 2022 | predecessor2 = Umesh Pandey | successor2 = | office3 = MLA,18th Legislative Assembly | term_start3 = March 2022 | term_end3 = | predecessor3 = Vijay Rajbhar | constituency3 = Member of Legislative Assembly,Ghosi | constituency4 = Ghosi | office4 = Member of Parliament in 15th Lok Sabha | term_start4 = May 2009 | term_end4 = May 2014 | predecessor4 = Chandradeo Prasad Rajbhar | successor4 = Harinarayan Rajbhar | office13 = Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha | constituency14 = Uttar Pradesh | term_start14 = 30 November 1996 | term_end14 = 02 April 2000 | term_start13 = 3 April 2000 | term_end13 = 2 April 2006 | birth_date = July 25,1963 | birth_place = Galvara,Azamgarh,Uttar Pradesh | restingplace = | restingplacecoordinates = | birthname = | parents = Ram Kishan Chauhan | nationality = Indian | party = Samajwadi Party | otherparty = Bahujan Samaj Party
BJP | spouse = Disha Chauhan | partner = | relations = | children = 4 | residence = Raj Bhawan Colony,Lucknow,Uttar Pradesh | alma_mater = High School | occupation = MLA | profession = Politician | footnotes =}}Dara Singh Chauhan is an Indian politician who represented Madhuban in Uttar Pradesh as a member of Samajwadi party. . He was former Cabinet Minister in Yogi Adityanath ministry. He also represented Ghosi in the 15th Lok Sabha,where he was leader of the Bahujan Samaj Party. In 16th Lok Sabha,he was defeated by Harinarayan Rajbhar who represented Bharatiya Janata Party by more than 140,000 votes.
Dinanath Bhaskar is an Indian politician active in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Once a close associate of Kanshi Ram,he was a founding member of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and was Minister for Health during the state's coalition government of the Samajwadi Party (SP) and BSP in 1993. He quit the BSP to join the SP in 1996,rejoined the BSP around 2009 and in 2015 joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Swami Prasad Maurya is an Indian politician and was a member of the 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of India. He represented the Padrauna constituency of Uttar Pradesh. He is a member of Samajwadi Party.
Madan Chauhan is an Indian politician and a member of the 16th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of India. He formerly represented the Garhmukteshwar constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Samajwadi Party political party. In 2022,he joined Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).
Vedram Bhati is an Indian politician and a member of the 16th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of India. A notable Gujjar leader from Uttar Pradesh,he represents the Jewar constituency of Uttar Pradesh and was a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) from 2002 to 2019 and later joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Ramveer Upadhyay was an Indian politician and a member of the 17th Legislative Assembly of the state of Uttar Pradesh,India. He represented the Sadabad constituency of Uttar Pradesh as a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) political party. Previously he represented the Sikandra Rao and Hathras constituencies,being member of the assembly four times in the process. On 14 January 2022,he resigned from the Bahujan Samaj Party and on 15 January 2022,he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The legislative assembly election in the Indian state of Rajasthan was held on 7 December 2018 to elect members of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly. The election was held in single phase,but with voting in the single constituency of Ramgarh delayed until January due to the death of the Bahujan Samaj Party candidate.
Rajendra Singh Patel is an Indian politician. He is an MLA from 238-Jahanabad constituency in Fatehpur district of Uttarpradesh. He became MLA for a second time in 2022 general election. He contested election for the first time in 1996 from 239-Bindki constituency and became Rural development minister. He is famous among the people due to his politeness,kindness and simplicity. He is also famous among the people as विकासपुरुष as he did much unprecedented development work in 239-Bindki constituency during his ministerial tenure 1997-2002.
Chaudhary Mahendra Singh is an Indian politician and He was a member of the 14th and the 15th Legislative Assemblies of Uttar Pradesh in the year 2002 and 2007,respectively. Mahendra Singh represented the Koil constituency of Uttar Pradesh and Minister of State in the Mayawati Ministry and is a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party political party. Citing disgruntlement with Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Ms. Mayawati,he quit the party in January 2018 . The party then released a statement claiming that he had been expelled for "anti-party activities". and Almost after 11 Month,He joined the Rashtriya Lok Dal having the Ajit Singh (politician) in December 2018,which he also left after 6 months because of some internal issue. and on 12-Sep-2021,in New Delhi,he joined Azad Samaj Party in presence of Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan and core member in the party.
Gyanendra Singh is an Indian politician and a member of 18th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of India. Since 2017,he represents the Paniyara in Maharajganj district of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Earlier he was also a member in 11th,13th and 14th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh from Shyamdeurawa,which was abolished after Delimitation order (2008).
Arun Kumar Sagar is an Indian politician who has been a Member of Lok Sabha for Shahjahanpur since 2019.
Shakir Ali is an Indian politician and former cabinet minister in the Uttar Pradesh government. He served as the MLA from Pathardeva in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly after being elected in the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election as a Samajwadi Party candidate.
Ayodhya Prasadis the Ex MLA from 16th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He was elected from Ayadshah constituency in 2012.
