Samajwadi party
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The Samajwadi Party ( SP , Hindi समाजवादी पार्टी Samājvādī Pārṭī [ sʌmɑːdʒˈʋɑːd̪i ˈpɑːrʈi ]; "Socialist Party") is a political party in India , which is mainly based in the state of Uttar Pradesh . The SP draws its electorate primarily from three groups: on the one hand, the numerically strong North Indian caste of the Yadavs , the underprivileged so-called Other Backward Classes and the relatively strong Muslim minority in Uttar Pradesh , which also belongs to the socially lower classes. The party was founded on October 4, 1992 in Lucknow by Mulayam Singh Yadav , who was party chairman until early January 2017. On January 1, 2017, his son Akhilesh Yadav replaced him as party chairman.
The party is ideologically in part in the tradition of the former socialist parties, the majority in 1977 in the Janata Party , which ruled for a short time but then split up into numerous successor parties. In 1989, the Janata Dal was re-established as a new edition of the latter through the merger of several parties (including the remains of the old Janata Party). A major theme of the brief Janata Dal government under Prime Minister VP Singh 1989–1991 was the elimination of caste privileges and injustices. The Janata Dal also disintegrated after a short time and the Samajwadi Party emerged as one of the successor parties ("Janata parivar"). Although the SP maintains close contacts with the Left Front and other to "progressive" fragments of the former Janata Dal - Mulayam and the other party leaders known each other for ever personally from the times of the socialist student movement in the 1970s - she keeps distance from the Congress Party , before especially to its chairman Sonia Gandhi . After the parliamentary elections in April / May 2009 , the Samajwadi Party declared that it wanted to support the government led by the Congress Party in order to prevent a possible coalition government with the participation of the Bharatiya Janata Party .
The SP has its base primarily in India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh , where it also provided the government several times. The SP's main rival is the Bahujan Samaj Party under Mayawati , which also campaigns for voters from the underprivileged castes and for the votes of the Dalits . The SP-party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav was Chief Minister (head of government) from 1993 to 1995 and from 2003 to 2007, his son Akhilesh Yadav has been in office since 2012. In the parliamentary elections in Uttar Pradesh 2012, the SP won 224 of 404 seats in parliament in Uttar Pradesh. In the all- India parliamentary election in 2009 , the SP won 23 out of 80 seats, in the subsequent election in 2014 only 5, all in Uttar Pradesh. In other states, the SP only plays a subordinate role. In the parliaments of Maharashtra , Karnataka and West Bengal it had a few members.
At the end of 2016 / beginning of 2017 there was an open rift between Mulayam Singh Yadav, the party founder and previous chairman, and his son Akhilesh Yadav, the incumbent Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. On January 1, 2017, the son was elected as the new party chairman and disempowered his father by assigning him a merely representative office as the “patron” of the party. At the same time, father and son submitted an application to the Indian Election Commission for recognition as party leader and the associated continued use of the bicycle as a party symbol. On January 17, 2017, the electoral commission gave Akhilesh Yadav and his faction of the Samajwadi Party permission to continue using the bicycle symbol.
Web links
- Homepage (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Sudha Pai: Political Process in Uttar Pradesh: Identity, Economic Reforms, and Governance. Pearson Education India; 1st edition (December 1, 2007). ISBN 8131707970 . P. 174
- ↑ a b Akhilesh Yadav faction of Samajwadi Party to get 'cycle' symbol: Election Commission. Hindustan Times, January 17, 2017, accessed January 19, 2017 .
- ↑ Know your party: Samajwadi Party. rediff.com, accessed May 22, 2014 .