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.
Devi Das Nahar is a valmiki activist and politician from Amritsar district,Punjab,India. He is president of Valmiki Dharam Yudh Morcha.
Democratic Bahujan Samaj Morcha was a political party in India,based in the state of Punjab. DBSM was formed on 20 December 1997 as a break-away from Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in protest to the alliance of BSP with the Indian National Congress in the state. DBSM was led by Satnam Singh Kainth. DBSM allied themselves with Shiromani Akali Dal and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Bahujan Samaj Party Kainth,a splinter group of Bahujan Samaj Party in Punjab. BSP(K) was founded on 30 October 2004. BSP(K) is led by Satnam Singh Kainth. Kainth had re-joined BSP ahead of the 2004 Lok Sabha elections,but was later expelled.
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 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.
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.
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. Exceptions are 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 and Charanjit Singh Channi who held the position for 111 days from 20 September 2021 to 16 March 2022 and was from Scheduled Caste(Dalit) who have 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 2022 Punjab Assembly elections and the AAP won 92 out of 117 Assembly seats with Bhagwant Mann as the Chief Minister. The Congress flows down to get only 18 seats.
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.
Joura Assembly constituency is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency came into existence in 1951,as one of the 79 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile Madhya Bharat state.
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.
Chhedi Paswan is a former member of 16th Lok Sabha and a former member of Bihar Legislative Assembly. He represents the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since 2014. At various points,he has been with Janata Party,then its Charan Singh faction,then the reunited Janata Dal,Bahujan Samaj Party,Nationalist Congress Party,Lalu Prasad Yadav's RJD and Nitish Kumar's JD(U).
Amarpal Sharma is an Indian politician and a member of the 16th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of India. He represents the Sahibabad constituency of Uttar Pradesh and was a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party political party. He is now a member of samajwadi party.
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 Samaj Party and a close associate of BSP Supremo Mayawati.
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).
A Legislative Assembly election was held in the Indian state of Punjab on 4 February 2017 to elect the 117 members of the Fifteenth 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.
Harbhajan Lakha was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Parliament of India from the Phillaur constituency of Punjab as a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party.
Rizwan Ahmad Khan is an Indian politician and member of the Peace Party of India and the Bahujan Samaj Party. He represented Kanth,Uttar Pradesh in the 14th and 15th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. He held office from February 2002 to March 2012.
Rakesh Pandey is an Indian politician and a member of the 18th Uttar Pradesh Assembly from Jalalpur as a Samajwadi Party candidate. He was a Member of Parliament in the 15th Lok Sabha from Ambedkar Nagar as a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) candidate. From 2002 to 2007,he was a MLA in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. In January 2022,Pandey left Bahujan Samaj Party and joined Samajwadi Party.
Kirpa Ram Punia,also known as K. R. Punia,is an Indian politician. He was a member of Janata Dal in the late 1980s,and served as a minister of industries under the Devi Lal's state government,then Chief Minister of Haryana,from 1987 to 1989.
