Bharat Punarnirman Dal
Bharat Punarnirman Dal(Hindi: भारत पुनर्निर्माण दल) (English translation:India Re-construction League) is a national level registered political party, founded by a group of graduates of the Indian Institutes of Technology,[1] and other such individuals and professionals
Core values:
- Always Nation and National interest first
- Equality: All Indians are equal
BPD Defines, Nation and Nationalism as
- Nation: A group of people united by the virtue of sharing their lineage in a territory.
- Nationalism An intense selfless commitment towards the prosperity and security of the group called as Nation with the ultimate consequence of prosperity and
security of self and the group.
Elections Contested
- Maharashtra Civic Polls Feb 2007 Contested on 4 seats 1-Mumbai, 2-Thane, 1-Solapur garnered around 250 votes in all
- Andhra Pradesh MLC polls March 2007 Supported three Candidates and won in 2 seats
- Uttar Pradesh MLA polls April–May 2007 Fielded 8 candidates on party ticket and 2 supported in all garnered more than five thousand votes, and stood ahead of some of the regional and other state partys.
The candidates fielded by BPD for all the above elections were at least graduate and of zero criminal background and the BPD's Candidates manifesto for the above elections was based on good governance, Accountability, transparency and efficiency. The results in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh did not yield any seats. The party will be contesting in Hyderabad corporation elections and Delhi Vidhan Sabha elections in 2008 followed by Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha elections in 2009. BPD has also fielded its candidate in the upcoming MLC (upper house) elections which are to be conducted in mid June in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. But the Main test for the party and the benchmark will be the 2009 Lok Sabha Elections.
Party activities apart from election
- Primary member Registration Drives in all the states happen on regular basis
- Weekly Office Bearer meetings are conducted in respective cities, Monthly State Meets, and Quarterly National Meets are held to discuss and update members on party's progress and other activities
- Vijayi Yuvak Marathi Monthly Magazine was launched in July 2007 in Maharashtra with a circulation of 5000 magazines per month
- Protest march are being held on various Youth related issues i.e. employment, Fee Structure, Technical status to some of non tech universities.
- An English Newspaper Sambharatam was launched in the month of January 2008.
- Party will be taking issues mainly related to National interest, Educated unemployed youth, Women Development issues and Farmers related issues. And will focus it and get results out of it by all constitutional means possible.
- A social wing under the name Sambharatam is launched at India level to address students related issues and other social issues.
References
- ↑ "Political party formed by IIT grads splits". The Times of India. 2007-04-03. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
External links
- official website
- Times of India reports about BPD Candidate for New Delhi Parliament seat Sudhir Kumar
- The Times (London) coverage
- BPD Maharashtra unit website dead link
- Lead India: Say yes to cleanse political system
- IBN Live
- Bollywood-inspired IITians eyeing polls
- IITians plunge into UP politics
- IIT-K ex-students to join protest against SEZs
- The Hindu reports, Party formed by ex-IIT students splits
- Indian Express reports, Bharat Punarnirman Dal