Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party
Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party | |
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Leader | Jivatram Kripalani |
Founder | Jivatram Kripalani |
Founded | 1951 |
Dissolved | 1952 |
Split from | Indian National Congress |
Merged into | Praja Socialist Party |
Ideology | Agrarianism Socialism |
Colours | |
The Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party (Farmer Worker People's Party) was a political party of India. Established in 1951, it merged with the Socialist Party to form the Praja Socialist Party in the following year.
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In June, 1951 Indian National Congress dissidents led by Jivatram Kripalani founded the KMPP. Two of its leaders, Prafulla Chandra Ghosh and Tanguturi Prakasam, had been chief ministers of West Bengal and of Madras respectively.[1] It contested the 1951–52 Indian general election, the first such polls in India. The party nominated candidates in 145 constituencies across sixteen states, but won only ten seats, six candidates being elected from Madras state,[2] and one each from Mysore state, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, and Vindhya Pradesh,[3][4] getting 5.8% of the votes. Kripalani himself lost from the (now defunct) Faizabad District (North West) constituency, but his wife, Sucheta Kripalani, was elected from New Delhi. It won 77 seats in the State legislative assemblies.[citation needed] In September, 1952 it merged with the Socialist Party to form the Praja Socialist Party.[1][5]
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Notes[edit]
- ^ a b Chandra, Bipan & others (2000). India after Independence 1947-2000, New Delhi:Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-027825-7, p.201
- ^ "Members : Lok Sabha".
- ^ "Election Commission India". Archived from the original on 18 December 2008. Retrieved 18 December 2008.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 September 2011. Retrieved 16 July 2008.
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