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Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
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- Abbreviation BSP
- President Mayawati
- Founder Kanshi Ram
- Founded 14 April 1984 (40 Years Ago) (1984-04-14)
- Country India
- Headquarters 12, Gurudwara Rakabganj Road, New Delhi, India-110001
- Eci Status National Party
- Ideology Social Justice, Self-Respect
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bahujan samaj party (BSP) BIOGRAPHY
Last Updated : 06 Feb 2025
Bahujan Samaj Party: A Profile Founded in 1984 by Kanshi Ram, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) champions the interests of Bahujans - Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes (OBCs), and minorities. Kanshi Ram, drawing inspiration from B. R. Ambedkar, Jyotiba Phule, and others, aimed t...
BAHUJAN SAMAJ PARTY NEWS
Explained: How BSP is banking on SC rulings to hold back former MLAs
July 29, 2020 8:33 am
Rajasthan crisis: The BSP is trying to win back its six MLAs who later joined the Congress, or at least to keep them from supporting Ashok Gehlot. Does the anti-defection law apply here?
Citizenship Amendment Bill: When arch-rivals SP and BSP were united in opposition
December 10, 2019 3:15 pm
Opposing the Citizenship Amendment Bill, BSP MP Afzal Ansari said, “This Bill is completely against the original idea of article 14 of the constitution of India.”
Uttar Pradesh bypoll results 2019: BJP, ally win 8 seats, SP gets 3; BSP, Congress draw blank
October 24, 2019 8:06 pm
Uttar Pradesh bypoll results 2019: As per the latest trends, the ruling BJPis leading in six seats and its ally Apna Dal is ahead in one seat. On the other hand, the Samajwadi Party SP is ahead in two seats, while the Congress and the BSP are leading in one seat each.
Mayawati unanimously re-elected as BSP president, vows to never stop or bend
August 28, 2019 4:03 pm
The development takes when the BSP is going to fight assembly elections in Haryana, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Delhi and the upcoming by-election in Uttar Pradesh.
Maya reshuffles: Munquad Ali is BSP’s new UP president
August 08, 2019 5:59 am
Khushwaha was appointed as BSP’s state chief in May last year and had unsuccessfully contested the 2019 Lok Sabha polls from Salempur, where he lost to the BJP’s Ravindra Kushwaha.
In a first, BSP appoints a Yadav as leader of party in Lok Sabha
August 07, 2019 8:49 pm
In a rejig within the party, retired PCS officer and MP from Jaunpur Shyam Singh Yadav replaced Danish Ali as the BSP leader in the Lok Sabha.
Mayawati ends alliance with SP, says BSP will fight all polls alone
June 25, 2019 6:42 am
Earlier this month, while saying that the BSP would contest the Uttar Pradesh Assembly bypolls on its own, Mayawati had said that it was not a “permanent break” from the SP. She had said that she could work with SP leader Akhilesh Yadav again in the future if he “fulfills his political duties”.
Despite its rules, BSP gives top jobs to Mayawati's kin
June 24, 2019 7:02 am
The BSP also announced Sunday that its Amroha MP Danish Ali was appointed leader of the BSP in Lok Sabha and named Nagina MP Girish Chandra the party whip. Earlier, Ali was named chief whip and Chandra the party leader in the LS.
Mayawati's brother, nephew get plum posts in BSP, Danish Ali named Lok Sabha leader
June 23, 2019 7:38 pm
Meanwhile, Amroha MP Danish Ali was made the leader of the party in Lok Sabha and its Nagina MP Girish Chandra appointed chief whip. Akash, a prominent face in Mayawati's Lok Sabha campaign, had first raised brows with his presence at the birthday celebration of the BSP supremo.
Sometimes trials fail: Akhilesh after Mayawati calls off SP-BSP alliance
June 05, 2019 7:59 pm
The SP-BSP alliance, stitched up in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections, suffered a severe setback at the hands of BJP, which won 62 out of the 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh. Eleven assembly bypolls are due in UP after the respective MLAs won the Lok Sabha polls.
