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 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 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. She had also served as a Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha from 2012 to 2017 from Uttar Pradesh. Mayawati's rise from humble beginnings has been called a "miracle of democracy" by P. V. Narasimha Rao,former prime minister of India. In 1993,Kanshi Ram formed a coalition with the Samajwadi Party and Mayawati became the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 1995. She was the first female Scheduled Caste chief minister in India. In 1997 and in 2002 she was chief minister with outside support from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),the second time only for a year up to 26 August 2003 due to BJP withdrawing support.
Kanshi Ram,also known as Bahujan Nayak or Manyavar,Sahab Kanshiram 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 Backwards (SC/ST/OBC) and Minorities Communities Employees' Federation (BAMCEF) in 1971 and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in 1984. He ceded leadership of the BSP to his protégéMayawati who has served four terms as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
Operation Duryodhana (2005) was the code name of a sting operation,which captured on camera eleven members of Parliament of India accepting money to table questions on the floor of the Parliament.
Rajesh Verma is an Indian politician,a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and former Loksabha Member of Parliament. 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. He lost his Loksabha MP seats in 2024 Indian General Election from Sitapur.
Satya Pal Singh Baghel is an Indian politician and Member of Parliament (Loksabha). A member of Bharatiya Janata Party,he got elected to 17th Lok Sabha from Agra and again to 18th Lok Sabha from the same constituency. 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.
Raja Ram Pal is an Indian politician with the Samajwadi Party,and was a member of the 15th Lok Sabha from Akbarpur. Earlier,as a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP),he had been a member of the 14th Lok Sabha from Bilhaur,before being expelled on 23 December 2005,along with ten others,after the sting Operation Duryodhana. The expulsion was sub judice when the 14th Lok Sabha finished its term.
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.
Raashid Alvi is an Indian politician who served as a member of the Indian Parliament from both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. He is currently a member of the Indian National Congress party.
Munquad Ali is a politician and Uttar Pradesh state president of Bahujan Samaj Party. He was a Member of the Parliament of India representing Uttar Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Indian Parliament.
The 2009 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh were held for 80 seats with the state going to polls across all the five phases of the general elections. The major contenders in the state were the National Democratic Alliance (NDA),Indian National Congress,Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Fourth Front. NDA consisted of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Lok Dal whereas the fourth front was constituted of the Samajwadi Party (SP),Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP).
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. Kushwaha was at the center of controversy in the NRHM scam. 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.
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.
Sukhda Misra is a political and social worker and a Member of Parliament elected from the Etawah constituency in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in 1998 as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate. In 2009 general elections she contested from Kanpur on Bahujan Samaj Party ticket,but she lost with margin of 1,66,614 against Shriprakash Jaiswal.
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.
Ashok Sidharth is an Indian politician and a member of the upper house Rajya Sabha in India. Sidharth is a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party political party and was elected in the elections held in June 2016 Uttar Pradesh.He was appointed the In-Charge of Andhra Pradesh on 11-06-2018.
Sukhdev Rajbhar was an Indian politician and a senior member of 11th,12th,14th,15th,and 17th Legislative Assembly(For Five Terms as a senior member),Uttar Pradesh of India,He Also Served As the Speaker of The 15th Uttar Pradesh State Legislative Assembly From 2007-2012 in the Bahujan Samaj Party’s Mayawati Government as well as a Cabinet Minister,Minister Of State(Independent Charge),Minister Of State at various occasions in the cabinet of several chief ministers in the government of Uttar Pradesh,he also served as a member of the Uttar Pradesh State Legislative Council(M.L.C) for 1 term for 6 years from B.S.P. He represented the Didarganj constituency in Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh. He was a Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh and a Minister in the Mayawati,Kalyan Singh and Mulayam Singh Yadav cabinets.
Ritesh Pandey is an Indian politician who has served as the Member of Parliament from Ambedkar Nagar constituency. He was a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) from the state of Uttar Pradesh. Pandey resigned from Bahujan Samaj Party and joined Bharatiya Janata Party in February 2024. He was also a MLA from Jalalpur constituency in Ambedkar Nagar district,which he represented between June 2017 and May 2019 before elected as MP in. He was appointed the Leader of the BSP in the Lok Sabha in January 2020. Prior to this appointment,he served as the Deputy Leader. According to his election filing he has 30 crores as his assets.
Kunwar Danish Ali is an Indian politician and a former Member of parliament,Lok Sabha for Amroha,Uttar Pradesh.
