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 in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh elections with over 22% of votes. Its election symbol is an elephant.
Mayawati is an Indian politician. She has served four separate terms as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. 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 Castes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes as well as converted minorities from these castes. She was chief minister briefly in 1995 and again in 1997, then from 2002 to 2003 and from 2007 to 2012.
Devi Das Nahar is a valmiki activist and politician from Amritsar district, Punjab, India. He is president of Valmiki Dharam Yudh Morcha.
Kanshi Ram, also known as Bahujan Nayak or Manyavar or Saheb, was an Indian politician and social reformer who worked for the upliftment and political mobilisation of the Bahujans, the backward or lower caste people including untouchable groups at the bottom of the caste system in India. Towards this end, Kanshi Ram founded Dalit Shoshit Samaj Sangharsh Samiti (DS-4), the All India Backward and Minority Communities Employees' Federation (BAMCEF) in 1971 and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in 1984. He ceded leadership of the BSP to his protégé Mayawati who has served four terms as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
Dharam Pal Yadav is a former cabinet minister of Uttar Pradesh. He is often referred to with epithets such as "mafia don", "underworld don" or the "unrivalled don of western Uttar Pradesh". He is the father of Vikas Yadav, the convicted murderer of Nitish Katara. He was an MLA four times and also an MP twice. His wife, Umlesh Yadav, was MLA from Bisauli. His nephew is currently Member of Legislative Council (MLC) from Badaun.
The Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly election, 2007 was held in April–May 2007. It was held to elect a government for the state of Uttar Pradesh (U.P.) in India.
Mukhtar Ansari is a politician from Uttar Pradesh. He has been elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Mau constituency a record five times. He was the prime accused in the BJP leader Krishnanand Rai murder case but later found not guilty in 2019.
Haji Yaqoob Qureshi is a former Indian politician and a member of the cabineof the Province of Uttar Pradesh. He is elected former MLA of Bahujan Samaj Party.
Rashtriya Lok Samta Party was a political party in India led by Upendra Kushwaha. It was launched on 3 March 2013 and is based in the state of Bihar. The party was formed in opposition to Nitish Kumar and his Janata Dal (United). It has faced multiple rebellions and desertions since 2015. On 14th March 2021, Upendra Kushwaha has merged RLSP with JDU
Suresh Mane is an Indian Politician and social activist who worked for improvement and mobilization of the Bahujan Samaj. He joined Bahujan movement founded by Kanshi Ram. He actively participated in BAMCEF, Dalit Soshit Samaj Sangharsh Samithi (DS4) and was a founding member of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in 1984.
The Legislative Assembly election was held over five-phases in Bihar through October–November 2015 before the end of the tenure of the prior Legislative Assembly of Bihar on 29 November 2015.
Swami Prasad Maurya is an Indian politician and a member of the 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of India. He represents the Padrauna constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party which he joined after a long stint with Bahujan Samaj Party. Maurya has been a Member of the legislative assembly for five terms, has been minister in the government of Uttar Pradesh, Leader of the house and Leader of opposition. He is currently serving as Cabinet Minister for Labour,Employment and Co-ordination in Yogi Adityanath ministry.His daughter Sanghmitra Maurya(MP from Budaun) was elected to Lok Sabha in 2019.
Shah Alam is an Indian politician and a member of the 16th and 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of India. He represents the Mubarakpur constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Bahujan Samajwadi party and a close associate of BSP Supremo Mayawati.
Harvinder Kumar Sahani is an Indian politician and a member of the 16th and Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh in India. He represents the Palia constituency of Uttar Pradesh and was a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party till 2016, when he joined the Bhartiya Janata Party.
A Legislative Assembly election was held in the Indian state of Punjab on 4 February 2017 to elect the 117 members of the Punjab Legislative Assembly. The counting of votes was done on 11 March 2017. The ruling pre-election coalition was the alliance comprising the political parties Shiromani Akali Dal and Bharatiya Janata Party and led by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. The voter turnout for the Punjab Assembly election was 77.2% The Indian National Congress led by former Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh defeated the ruling alliance and the newcomer Aam Aadmi Party.
R. S. Kushwaha is an Indian politician from the Lakhimpur constituency of Uttar Pradesh. Kushwaha is currently the national general secretary of Bahujan Samaj Party. He has also served as the president of the Uttar Pradesh state unit of the party during the time of mahagathbandhan between Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party. He was the member of the 14th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh and a member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from 2010 to 2016. He also contested for the 15th Lok Sabha Elections against congress chief Sonia Gandhi from Rae Bareli constituency.
Chaudhary Laxmi Narayan Singh is an Indian politician and member of 9th, 13th, 15th and 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. And currently serving as Minister of Dairy Development, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries in Yogi Adityanath ministry. He represents the Chhata constituency as a candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He was previously a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party and was a cabinet minister in the government led by chief minister Mayawati.
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 and several other political parties, contesting in different states of India.
Kunwar Danish Ali is an Indian politician and a Member of Lok Sabha for Amroha since 2019. Ali joined Bahujan Samaj Party in March 2019 after leaving Janata Dal (Secular).
The Grand Democratic Secular Front (GDSF), is a coalition of political parties in the Indian state of Bihar formed on 8 October 2020 after the merger of the constituents of the United Democratic Secular Alliance and a three party front. The coalition was formed in the wake of the 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election and consists of 6 parties.
