Karnataka Congress Party
The Karnataka Congress Party ( KCP ) was a short-lived local split from the Congress Party in the southern Indian state of Karnataka . The KCP existed as a political party from 1994 to 1997.
Party history
The KCP was founded on December 22nd, 1994 by Sarekoppa Bangarappa . Bangarappa was the chief minister of Karnataka from 1990 to 1992 at the head of a Congress party-led government. In 1992, however, he was pressured to resign after his government was unable to bring the cauvery riots that had broken out between the neighboring state of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka over the use of water resources in the Kaveri under control. Annoyed by this, Bangarappa finally fell out completely with the Congress Party, was expelled from the Congress Party for 6 years and then founded the KCP.
In the 1994 election to the Karnataka State Parliament, the KCP received 1,513,290 votes (7.31%) and won 10 of 224 constituencies (4.5%). In the all-India parliamentary election in 1996 , the KCP put up 11 candidates in the 28 constituencies of Karnataka and won one constituency ( 21-Shimoga ) in which their top candidate Bangarappa was successful. The party received 581,868 votes. The KCP then rejoined the Congress Party in December 1996.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harish Ramaswamy, SS Patagundi: Karnataka Government and Politics. 1st edition. Concept Publishing, 2007, ISBN 81-8069-397-X , p. 254.
- ↑ Journey ends for a political traveler. In: The Telegraph (Calcutta). December 27, 2011, accessed September 3, 2015 .
- ^ Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed on September 3, 2015 (English, election results of all Indian elections to the Lok Sabha and the parliaments of the states since independence).
- ↑ Kesri humiliates Bangarappa. rediff.com, 1997, accessed September 3, 2015 .