Bahujan Samaj Party (Ambedkar)

Bahujan Samaj Party (Ambedkar)
Founded 2000
Ideology Ambedkarist

The Bahujan Samaj Party (Ambedkar)[1] was a splinter group of the Bahujan Samaj Party in Punjab and Haryana, India. The party president was Devi Dass Nahar and the general secretary was Vijay Kumar Hans (later leader of the Democratic Bharatiya Samaj Party).

In the 2002 legislative assembly elections in Punjab, BSP(A) put up 23 candidates, who together received 20,260 votes. The BSP(A) reunited with the BSP on 31 December 2003.

In 2004, after the elections of Lok Sabha, Sh. Devi Dass Nahar along with Jia Lal Nahar, Pritam Chand and Balwant Singh Sultanpur was expelled from Bahujan Samaj Party[2] and parted ways from BSP by refloating his BSP(Ambedkar) due to differences with Narender Kashyap national general secretary of party and state president Avtar Singh Karimpuri.

In 2009 Lok Sabha elections, BSP(A) announced its support to the SAD-BJP candidates after Sukhbir Singh Badal met with Devi Dass Nahar.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Service, Tribune News (15 October 2015). "BSP (Ambedkar) members take out motorcycle rally". http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/amritsar/bsp-ambedkar-members-take-out-motorcycle-rally/134961.html. Retrieved 15 October 2015. External link in |website= (help)
  2. ↑ "BSP expels four Punjab leaders including Devi Dass Nahar". Zee News (in Latin). 4 June 2004. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  3. ↑ "BSP(A) to support the SAD-BJP candidates". News India, Asia, World, Sports, Business, Science / Tech, Health, Entertainment, Features. 10 May 2009. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
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