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. The same symbol which was used by Dr. Ambedkar. The elephant symbol was taken from their ideal dr ambedkar’s theory.
Politics in reorganised present-day Punjab is dominated by mainly three parties – Indian National Congress, Aam Aadmi Party and Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal). Since 1967, Chief Minister of Punjab has been predominantly from Jatt Sikh community despite its 21 percent state population. Only exception was Giani Zail Singh, the Chief Minister of Punjab from 17 March 1972 to 30 April 1977 belonging to Ramgarhia community that has population of 6 percent and is a part of significant OBC community having population of 31.3 percent in the state. However Scheduled Castes (Dalit) community never had Chief Minister from community nor proper representation in Government, despite having 32 percent population in the state. Other prominent party is Bahujan Samaj Party especially in Doaba region founded by Kanshi Ram of Rupnagar district. In 1992 BSP won 9 seats Vidhan Sabha elections. Also BSP won 3 lok sabha seats from Punjab in 1996 general elections and only Garhshanker seat in 1997 Vidhan Sabha elections. Communist parties too have some influence in the Malwa area. In the 2014 general elections, the first-time contesting Aam Aadmi Party got 4 out of 13 seats in Punjab by winning 34 of the total 117 assembly segments, coming second in 7, third in 73 and fourth in the rest 3 segments. The support for the Aam Aadmi Party increased later in Punjab. The current Government was elected in the 2017 Punjab Assembly elections and the Congress won 77 out of 117 Assembly seats with Captain Charanjit Singh Channi as the current Chief Minister. The AAP, fighting its first assembly election in the state, won 20 seats. The incumbent BJP-SAD alliance came third with 18 seats.Captain Amarinder Singh resigned on 18 September 2021. After which Charanjit Singh Channi became cheif minister in Punjab.
Aam Aadmi Party is a political party in India, founded in November 2012 by Arvind Kejriwal and companions. It styles itself as an alternative to the two predominant, mainstream parties of India—the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Indian National Congress (INC). It wants to establish itself as the principal opposition, replacing mainstream INC. AAP currently runs the government of Delhi, the capital territory of India, headed by Kejriwal as Chief Minister. It has held the majority in the Delhi Legislative Assembly since the 2015 election, limiting BJP to a few seats and pushing INC out entirely out of the legislature.
Mulayam Singh Yadav is an Indian politician and the founder-patron of the Samajwadi Party. He served for three non-consecutive terms as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and also served as the Minister of Defence, Government of India. A long-time parliamentarian, he is currently the Member of Parliament, representing the constituency of Mainpuri in the Lok Sabha, and has also earlier served as the Member of Parliament from Azamgarh and Sambhal constituencies. He is often referred to as Netaji by party leaders and workers.
Chaudhary Fateh Singh, also known as Fateh Singh, is an Indian politician from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi. He is member of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi and represents Gokalpur of Delhi. Earlier, he was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was a member of First Legislative Assembly of Delhi and served as its deputy speaker from 1995 to 1998.
Ramvir Singh Bidhuri is an Indian politician and he was member of the 1st, 3rd and the Fifth Legislative Assemblies of Delhi. Currently, he is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and MLA From Badarpur and Leader of Opposition in Delhi Legislative Assembly.
Narayan Dutt Sharma is an Indian politician and a member of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi in India. He represents the Badarpur constituency of New Delhi.
Devinder Kumar Sehrawat is an Indian politician and former member of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi of India. He has represented the Bijwasan constituency of New Delhi(being a member of The AAM AADMI PARTY before defecting to BJP political party. He was disqualified by Speaker from membership of Delhi Vidhansabha under Anti-Defection Law.
Sahi Ram is an Indian politician and a member of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi and re-elected to Seventh Legislative Assembly of Delhi in India. He represents the Tughlakabad constituency of Delhi and is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party political party. He won from Tughlakabad Assembly on an Aam Aadmi Party Ticket in the year 2015 & 2020.
Rajesh Rishi is an Indian politician and member of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi, India. He currently represents the Janakpuri constituency of Delhi and is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party political party.
Sarita Singh is an Indian politician, who is the incumbent president of Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Samiti,( CYSS ) the student's wing of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). She was a member of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi and represented Rohtas Nagar of Delhi. Singh is also a social worker.
Ajesh Yadav is an Indian politician and is member of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi. He is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party and represents Badli of Delhi.
Shri Dutt Sharma is an Indian politician and was a member of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi. He is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party and represented Ghonda of Delhi from 2015 to 2020. Also, He is the founder of Pt. YAD RAM SECONDARY PUBLIC SCHOOL BHAJANPURA DELHI
Ram Niwas Goel is an Indian politician serving as Speaker of the Delhi legislative assembly since 2015. He serves as a Member of Delhi Legislative Assembly for Shahdara.
Sharad Kumar Chauhan, also known as Sharad Chauhan and Sharad Kumar, is an Indian politician, from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). He was a member of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi (MLA) from Nerela constituency also elected as Parliament Secretary of Revenue.
Sucha Singh Chhotepur is an Indian politician and vice-president of Shiromani Akali Dal. He was born in Punjab. He was former state convener of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for Punjab. He is the former state Minister of Tourism and a former independent member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly.
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.
Garhshankar Assembly Constituency is a Punjab Legislative Assembly constituency representing Garhshankar in Hoshiarpur district, Punjab state, India. Currently, it is represented by Jai Krishan Singh of the Aam Aadmi Party. The last assembly elections were held in February 2017
Surendra Kumar is an Indian politician and was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Delhi. He represented the Gokalpur (SC) constituency of Delhi from 2008-2013 and is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party political party.
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