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Web Archive Bahujan Samaj Party: BSP Party | National Political Party of India | Largest Democracy of The World | Scheduled Tribes | Scheduled Castes, Other Backward Classes (OBCs)

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Title

  • Bahujan Samaj Party: BSP Party | National Political Party of India | Largest Democracy of The World | Scheduled Tribes | Scheduled Castes, Other Backward Classes (OBCs)

Summary

  • "The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is the third largest national political party in India. It was formed mainly to represent Bahujans (literally meaning 'People in majority'), referring to people from the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Castes (OBC), as well as religious minorities that together consist of 85 percent of India's population but still divided into 6000 different castes. The party claims to be inspired by the philosophy of B. R. Ambedkar, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule, Narayana Guru, Periyar E. V. Ramasamy and Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj. It was founded by Kanshi Ram in 1984, who named his protégée Mayawati as his successor in 2001. The BSP was the third most voted-for party in the 2014 general election but still failed to win any seats in the 16th Lok Sabha. The BSP has its main base in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It has an elephant as its election symbol." -- Summary retrieved on October 7, 2019 http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bahujan_Samaj_Party

Created / Published

  • India.

Genre

  • website

Form

  • electronic

Repository

  • Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 20540 USA

Source Url

  • http://www.bspindia.org/
  • https://twitter.com/bspindia

Access Condition

  • Access restricted to on-site users

Scopes

  • -  www.bspindia.org (domain)
  • -  news.bspindia.org/ (domain)
  • -  twitter.com/bspindia (domain)
  • -  in.linkedin.com/in/bspindia (domain)

Online Format

  • web page

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Bahujan Samaj Party: BSP Party | National Political Party of India | Largest Democracy of The World | Scheduled Tribes | Scheduled Castes, Other Backward Classes OBCs. India, 2012. Web Archive. https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0027419/.

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(2012) Bahujan Samaj Party: BSP Party | National Political Party of India | Largest Democracy of The World | Scheduled Tribes | Scheduled Castes, Other Backward Classes OBCs. India. [Web Archive] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0027419/.

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Bahujan Samaj Party: BSP Party | National Political Party of India | Largest Democracy of The World | Scheduled Tribes | Scheduled Castes, Other Backward Classes OBCs. India, 2012. Web Archive. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0027419/>.