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Bahujan Samaj Party flag used in public. Bahujan Samaj Party was founded on the birth anniversary of B. R. Ambedkar (14 April 1984) by Kanshi Ram, [16] who named former school teacher, Mayawati, as his successor of BSP in 2001. [17] The party's power grew quickly with seats in the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh and the Lok Sabha, the ...
Kanshi Ram (15 March 1934 – 9 October 2006), also known as Bahujan Nayak [1] or Manyavar, Sahab Kanshiram [2] [3] 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. [4]
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. Mayawati had also served as a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from 2012 to 2017 from Uttar ...
Subsequently he joined the BSP and in 2007 was made the state unit president. [8] In 2011, he contested unsuccessfully against then deputy chief minister M.K Stalin in the assembly elections from Kolathur. [9] He was the state president of Bahujan Samaj Party for 17 years from 2007 till his death. [10]
Kanshi Ram, founder of Bahujan Samaj Party, a Dalit leader and Bahujan Nayak of India [73] Bangaru Laxman, former President of Bharatiya Janta Party [74] Kirpa Ram Punia, Dalit leader, former IAS officer, and politician [75] B. Shyam Sunder, founder of Bharatiya Bhim Sena [76]
Chandrashekhar Azad was born on 3 December 1986, in Dhadkuli village near Chhutmalpur in Saharanpur, Western Uttar Pradesh. [3] Growing up in a Dalit family, Azad experienced caste-based discrimination, which influenced his early interest in social justice and advocacy.
[28] on 16 March 2024 he has resigned from the party amidst reported pressure from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to Bahujan Samaj Party to severe ties with the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) . [29] [30] R S Praveen Kumar has filed his nomination contesting for the upcoming MP elections as BRS candidate from Nagar Kurnool.
Apna Dal was founded on 4 November 1995 by Sone Lal Patel and Chaudhary Balihari Patel (Chaudhary Sahab). They had been a close associate of dalit leader Kanshi Ram, and along with Ram, he had been one of the founders of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).