| Bahujan Samaj Party (Ambedkar) | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2000 |
| Ideology | Ambedkarist |
| Politics of India Political parties Elections |
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The Bahujan Samaj Party (Ambedkar) was a splinter-group of the Bahujan Samaj Party in Punjab and Haryana, India. The party president was Devi Dass Nahar and the general secretary was Vijay Kumar Hans (later leader of the Democratic Bharatiya Samaj Party). The party claimed to have 100,000 party workers, a gross exaggeration.
In the 2002 legislative assembly elections in Punjab, BSP(A) put up 23 candidates, who together received 20,260 votes.
The BSP(A) reunited with the BSP on 31 December 2003.in 2004 after the elections of lok sabha sh.Devi Lal nahar parted ways from BSP and refloated his BSP[ambedkar]due to differences with Narender Kashyap national general secretary of party and state president Avtat singh karimpuri.