Samata party

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The Samata Party (SAP) , sometimes Samta Party transcribed ( Hindi समता पक्ष "party of equality"), a party in India , which was created in 1994 and from 1999 to 2000 and again in 2003 for the most part in the Janata Dal (United) rose . The main focus of the party was the state of Bihar . The party that still exists today under its original name is only a small, insignificant splinter party.

history

The party was founded in April 1994 as a split from Janata Dal (JD). The main founders were George Fernandes and Nitish Kumar . The reason given for the split was that the Janata Dal was increasingly determined by caste thinking and no longer by socialist ideas. One of the main reasons was certainly rivalries within the Janata Dal in Bihar, especially with the dominant Lalu Prasad Yadav there . He later also became the main political opponent of the Samata Party, even after he had also left the JD and founded Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in 1997.

The political focus of the Samata Party was Bihar from the beginning. Before the parliamentary elections in 1996 she concluded an electoral alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and was able to win 7.3 million votes (2.17%) nationwide and 8 constituencies, 6 of them in Bihar, one in Orissa and one in Uttar Pradesh . In the subsequent legislative period, she remained in the opposition. In the 1998 general election , it was again allied with the BJP and won 12 of Bihar's 54 constituencies and 6.5 million votes (1.8%) nationwide.

In March 1999 the SAP split in Bihar. A faction under Brishen Patel and Shivanand Tiwari in the parliament of Bihar broke away from the party and in May 1999 joined the RJD under Lalu Prasad Yadav. In July 1999, the leaders of the Samata Party, George Fernandes, and Janata Dal (United), Sharad Yadav , announced that both parties would unite. In the parliamentary elections in September / October 1999 , both parties ran under a common list and under the name and party symbols of Janata Dal (United). After the election, however, the leadership of the Samata Party decided on January 6, 2000, in the run-up to the parliamentary elections in Bihar, to put up its own candidates and to cancel the planned union with JD (U). The main reason for this was the fact that no agreement had been reached regarding the filling of the future management positions.

On October 30, 2003 it came to the union of Samata Party and Janata Dal (United), whereby the latter's party name was retained. George Fernandes became chairman of the united party. The faction around Sharad Yadav was not satisfied with this. She left the unified party shortly before the 2004 general election and joined the RJD.

Election results

The following are the results of the SAP elections for all-India elections for Lok Sabha and for elections to the Parliament of Bihar.

year choice voting
share
Seats in parliament
1995 Parliamentary election in Bihar 1995 7.06%
7/324
1996 IndiaIndia Elected Lok Sabha 1996 2.17%
8/543
1998 IndiaIndia Election for Lok Sabha in 1998 1.8%
12/543
2000 General election in Bihar 2000 8.65%
34/324

In the 1999 election, the SAP did not run as an independent party, but on joint lists with Janata Dal (United). In all elections after 2000, SAP won no mandate and well below 1% of the vote.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Samata Party. (No longer available online.) Indian-elections.com, archived from the original June 1, 2004 ; accessed on December 3, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.indian-elections.com
  2. ↑ Rai Atul Krishna, Anirban Guha: Feels like old times: Lalu to back JD (U) govt in Bihar. Hindustan Times, May 22, 2014, accessed December 4, 2014 .
  3. ↑ a b c Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed on December 3, 2014 (English, election results of all Indian elections to the Lok Sabha and the parliaments of the states since independence).
  4. ↑ Samata Party in Bihar assembly splits. rediff.com, March 17, 1999, accessed December 3, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Samata splinter merges in RJD. rediff.com, May 18, 1999, accessed December 2, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Samata, Lok Shakti merge with JD's breakaway faction. rediff.com, July 21, 1999, accessed December 3, 2014 .
  7. ^ Samata Party breaks away from JD (U). rediff.com, January 6, 2000, accessed December 3, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Samata Party merges with the JD-U. rediff.com, October 3, 2003, accessed December 3, 2014 .