Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad (RRP, "All India Council of Ram's Kingdom") was an Indian Hindu nationalist political party founded by Swami Karpatri in 1948.[1] The RRP won three Lok Sabha seats in the 1952 elections to the national Parliament and two in 1962.[2] In 1952, 1957 and 1962, it won several dozen Vidhan Sabha seats, all in the Hindi belt, mostly in Rajasthan. Like other Hindutva-based parties, the RRP fought against the implementation of the Hindu code bills in India.[3] The party eventually merged into the Jana Sangh, the precursor to the Bharatiya Janata Party.[3]
Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad | |
|---|---|
| Founder | Swami Karpatri |
| Founded | 1948 |
| Dissolved | 1971 |
| Merged into | Bhartiya Jana Sangh |
| Ideology | Hindutva Hindu Nationalism Anti-Hindu Code Bill |
Electoral performance
editLok Sabha
edit| Year | Legislature | Party leader | Seats won | Seats changed | Percentage (of votes) | Votes swing | Popular votes | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 1st Lok Sabha | Swami Karpatri | 3 | newly formed | 1.97% | newly formed | 20,91,898 | |
| 1957 | 2nd Lok Sabha | 0 |  3 | 0.38% | 1.59% | 4,60,838 | ||
| 1962 | 3rd Lok Sabha | 2 |  2 | 0.60% | 0.22% | 6,88,990 |
Notes
edit- ^ Kumar, Sajjan (4 August 2020). "The conservative challenge to Hindutva". The Hindu. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
- ^ "Biographical sketches of Third Lok Sabha". National Informatics Centre, Government of India. Archived from the original on 19 May 2006. Retrieved 14 August 2006.
- ^ a b LS Herdenia. "Uniform Civil Code: How RSS and Hindu swamis fought tooth and nail the Hindu Code Bill".
References
edit- Baxter, Craig (1971). The Jana Sangha. A Biography of an Indian Political Party. Delhi, India: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-7583-4.
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