Bharatiya Kranti Dal Explained

Party Name:	Bharatiya Kranti Dal
Founder:	Charan Singh
Foundation:	October 1967
Ideology:	Populism^[1]
Colours:	Green

Bharatiya Kranti Dal was a political party in India, formed by the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Charan Singh. The party was founded at a meeting in Lucknow in October 1967.^[2] After the 1977 general election, the successor party of the BKD, Bharatiya Lok Dal was merged into the Janata Party.^[3]

The seeds for the formation of BKD were sown on 9 April 1967, when Humayun Kabir organised a meeting of all non-Congress Chief Ministers and other important leaders in Delhi.^[4] At Indore session of BKD in November 1967, Mahamaya Prasad Sinha was elected as first chairman of the party.^[4]

See also

• Indian National Congress breakaway parties

Notes and References

1. Book: Singh, Mahendra Prasad. Split in a Predominant Party: The Indian National Congress in 1969. Abhinav publications. 1981. 41. 9788170171409. 2024-07-18. "The Bharatiya Kranti Dal(BKD) and the Akali Dal, two other right-wing parties...".
2. Wallace, Paul. India: The Dispersion of Political Power Paul Wallace, in Asian Survey, Vol. 8, No. 2, A Survey of Asia in 1967: Part II. (Feb., 1968), pp. 87-96.
3. [E.M.S. Namboodiripad]
4. Book: Brass, Paul R. . An Indian Political Life: Charan Singh and Congress Politics, 1967 to 1987 - Vol.3 (The Politics of Northern India) . Sage India . 2014 . 978-9351500322 . en.