The Bahujan Samaj Party is a political party in India that was formed to represent Bahujans,referring to Scheduled Castes,Scheduled Tribes,and Other Backward Classes (OBC),along with 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 B. R. Ambedkar,Jyotiba Phule,Narayana Guru,Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj,and Gautama Buddha.
Kumari Mayawati is an Indian politician who served as the 18th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 1995 to 1995,1997 to 1997,2002 to 2003 and from 2007 to 2012. She is the national president of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP),which focuses on a platform of social change for Bahujans,more commonly known as Other Backward Classes,Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes as well as religious minorities since 2003.
The 2007 Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly election was held during April–May 2007. It was held to elect a government for the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.
Mukhtar Ansari, was an Indian gangster,convicted murderer and a politician,based in the state of Uttar Pradesh. He was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Mau constituency five times,including twice as a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate.
Shahid Siddiqui is a former member of the Rajya Sabha,the Upper House of the Indian Parliament representing the state of Uttar Pradesh from 2002 to 2008. He is a journalist and the chief editor of the Nai Duniya,an Urdu weekly published from New Delhi.
Purushottam Naresh Dwivedi was an Indian politician,latterly in prison on rape charges. As a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party,he won the 2007 Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections from Naraini in southern Uttar Pradesh,and he was elected an MLA.
Babu Singh Kushwaha is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh,serving as chief of the Jan Adhikar Party and former Family Welfare Minister in the Uttar Pradesh government under Mayawati. He was also one of Behenji’s trusted backroom boys,who besides working at the grassroots looked after the party’s administrative affairs.In the 2024 Indian general election,he won from the Jaunpur Lok Sabha constituency on the symbol of Samajwadi Party,becoming a member of Lok Sabha for the first time.
The 2012 Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly election followed as a result the expiration of the five-year term of the previous legislature elected in Uttar Pradesh,India. The election to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly was held in seven phases from 8 February through 3 March 2012. Uttar Pradesh has the world's largest population for a sub-national democracy. The incumbent chief minister Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party,which previously won an absolute majority of seats,was defeated by Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party,which gained an absolute majority in the election. Mulayam's son and Samajwadi party president Akhilesh Yadav was nominated as chief minister by the party.
Sher Bahadur Singh was an Indian politician in Uttar Pradesh. He served 5 times as Member of the Legislative Assembly (India) Uttar Pradesh for Jalalpur. He was firstly elected member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly for Jalalpur constituency in 1980 from Indian National Congress,in 1985 as Independent,in 1996 from Bharatiya Janata Party,in 2002 from Bahujan Samaj Party,in 2012 from Samajwadi Party.
Shekhar Tiwari is an Indian politician from the Bahujan Samaj Party,currently in life imprisonment for murder. He was elected as chairman of the Dibiyapur municipal Panchayat in Auraiya district of Uttar Pradesh in 1997. He was elected to the UP Vidhan Sabha as a BSP candidate in May 2007. Soon after,his wife Vibha was elected as chairman of the Dibiyapur panchayat.
Dara Singh Chauhan is an Indian politician,currently serving as member of legislative council,and formerly represented the Madhuban in Uttar Pradesh as a member of Bharatiya Janata 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.
Nakul Dubey is an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress and a former urban development minister in the Government of Uttar Pradesh when Mayawati was Chief Minister. Facebook;X(earlier Twitter)
The election for the Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh,a multi party contest,the Samajwadi party beating most of the exit polls which were pointing the hung assembly,secured a comfortable majority of 224 in a house of 403 outperforming the ruling BSP and other national parties,the INC and the BJP. The BSP strength in the assembly was greatly reduced to 80 seats,the BJP with 47 seats followed by the Congress with 28 seats. Mayawati,the incumbent Chief Minister tendered her resignation on 6 March 2012 marking the distinction of being the first to complete full five years in office.
Sunil Singh Yadav is an Indian politician who has been Member of legislative assembly from OBRA,Robertsganj –Uttar Pradesh since 2012. A member of the Samajwadi party,he was elected as an Uttar Pradesh Member Of Legislative Assembly 2012.
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).
Shah Alam is an Indian politician and a member of the 16th and 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of India. He represented the Mubarakpur constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Samajwadi Party and he was a close associate of BSP Supremo Mayawati.
Legislative Assembly elections were held in Uttar Pradesh in 1996. The Bharatiya Janata Party remained the largest party,winning 174 of the 425 seats.
Akhil Bharatiya Loktantrik Congress was a regional political party in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It was founded in October 1997 by Naresh Agarwal along with Jagdambika Pal,Atul Kumar Singh,Bacha Pathak,Rajeev Shukla,Hari Shankar Tiwari,Suresh Chand Bhardwaj,Shripati Singh and Shyam Sunder Sharma. The party was formed when these leaders broke away from the Indian National Congress to join the All India Indira Congress (Tiwari),led by N. D. Tiwari which led another switched to form Loktantrik Congress.
Ram Prasad Chaudhary is an Indian politician and a member of the 9th Lok Sabha,12th,13th,14th,15th and 16th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. He represents the Kaptanganj constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Samajwadi Party. He earlier also served as Minister of State in Mayawati cabinet (1997),Minister of Textile and silk industry in Kalyan Singh government (1997) and Minister of Food and Civil Supplies in Mayawati cabinet (2007–2012). In June 2024,Chaudhary defeated Harish Dwivedi of Bharatiya Janata Party and was elected to Indian Parliament,Lok Sabha from Basti Lok Sabha constituency of Uttar Pradesh.
The Mahagathbandhan,or MGB,or simply the Gathbandhan (Alliance),was an anti-Congress,anti-BJP,Indian political alliance formed in the run-up to the 2019 general election under the leadership of two former Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh,Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party and Mayawati of the Bahujan Samaj Party,along with Ajit Singh's Rashtriya Lok Dal.
