Ram Rajya Parishad

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Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar
Syama Prasad Mookerjee
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Lal Krishna Advani
Bal Thackeray
Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya

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Ram Rajya Parishad (Rām Rājya Pariṣad), Sanskrit, Forum of Rama's Kingdom, was a traditionalist Hindu party in India. It was founded by Swami Karpatri (1905-1980) in 1948. The Ram Rajya Parishad won three Lok Sabha seats in the 1952 elections and two in the 1962 elections.[1] In 1952, 1957 and 1962, it won several dozens of Vidhan Sabha seats all in the Hindi belt, mostly in Rajasthan.[2] The party then turned inactive and was one of the many parties to merge together to form the Bharatiya Jana Sangh [3]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Biographical sketches of Third Lok Sabha. National Informatics Centre, Government of India. Retrieved on August 14, 2006.
  2. ^ Elst, Koenraad (2005). Decolonizing the Hindu mind. India: Rupa, 191-192. ISBN 81-7167-519-0. 
  3. ^ Chad E. Bell. Party politics in India, 1963-2000. Retrieved on August 14, 2006.

[edit] References

  • Baxter, Craig (1971). The Jana Sangha. A Biography of an Indian Political Party. Delhi, India: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0812275837.