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, and Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj.
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 gangster-turned-politician of the Bahujan Samaj Party and former Member of Parliament (MP) of India for Ghazipur constituency, Uttar Pradesh. He won the 2004 and 2019 Indian general election.
Dara Singh Chauhan is an Indian politician who represented 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.
The Suheldev Bharatiya SamajParty is an Indian political party founded in 2002. The party is led by Om Prakash Rajbhar, former Minister of Backward Classes Welfare, Disabled People development in Uttar Pradesh. The party has its headquarters in Rasra, Ballia district. The party has a yellow flag.
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.
Mohanlalganj is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Mohanlalganj in the Lucknow district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
R. S. Kushwaha is an Indian politician from the Lakhimpur constituency of Uttar Pradesh. R. S. Kushwaha is currently a member of the Samajwadi Party (SP) and has previously held the post of the national general secretary of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). He has also served as the president of the Uttar Pradesh state unit of the party during the time of Alliance between Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party. He defected to SP in October, 2021. 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 the 15th Lok Sabha Elections against congress chief Sonia Gandhi from Rae Bareli constituency.
Mahendra Singh is an Indian politician and He was a member of the 14th and the 15th Legislative Assemblies of Uttar Pradesh in the year 2002 and 2007, respectively. Mahendra Singh represented the Koil constituency of Uttar Pradesh and Minister of State in the Mayawati Ministry and is a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party political party. Citing disgruntlement with Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Ms. Mayawati, he quit the party in January 2018 . The party then released a statement claiming that he had been expelled for "anti-party activities". and Almost after 11 Month, He joined the Rashtriya Lok Dal having the Ajit Singh (politician) in December 2018, which he also left after 6 months because of some internal issue. and on 12-Sep-2021, in New Delhi, he joined Azad Samaj Party in presence of Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan and core member in the party.
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.
Ritesh Pandey is an Indian politician serving as the Member of Parliament from Ambedkar Nagar constituency. He is a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) from the state of Uttar Pradesh. 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.
Kalpi is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the town of Kalpi in the Jalaun district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Madhogarh is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Madhogarh in the Jalaun district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Orai is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Orai in the Jalaun district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Handia is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Handia in the Prayagraj district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Khadda is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Khadda in the Kushinagar district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
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).
Vijay Kumar Mishra is an Indian politician who, as of 2017, represents the Gyanpur constituency in the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. As a member of the Nishad party, he won the seat in the 2017 state assembly elections. In March 2018, he was expelled from that party, despite being its only Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), when he supported a candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in elections to the Rajya Sabha. The party allied with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and had ordered him to support the BSP candidate, Bhim Rao Ambedkar. Mishra is currently contesting assembly elections of 2022 from Gyanpur constituency, he is holding election symbol "Helicopter" high to register his victory in 2022 elections. Notable point is Vijay Mishra is contesting from Pragatisheel Manav Samaj Party in 2022 assembly elections. But he lost this election badly, he remained in third position. Mishra is being detained by UP Police under charges of extortion and land-grabbing and trespassing. Mishra had been a member of the Samajwadi Party (SP), for whom he successfully contested in the 2002, 2007 and 2012 assembly elections. Described in 2007 by the Hindustan Times as a "mafia", he had at that time over 30 pending criminal cases lodged against him. He contested the 2012 election while in jail in relation to an alleged involvement in the 2010 bomb attack on Nand Gopal Gupta, who was minister of state at that time (2010) and was chosen as cabinet minister in Yogi Adityanath's government.. Denying the charges as being politically motivated, he was released on bail later in the year, by which time 62 criminal cases were recorded against him. His family had anticipated his release would occur if the SP were returned to government.
Atul Rai is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament from the Ghosi constituency in Uttar Pradesh. He defeated Bharatiya Janata Party's Hari narayan Rajbhar. He contested Lok Sabha Election with Bahujan Samaj Party's ticket and defeated his close rival with a margin of 122,568 votes.
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.
