Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad Explained

Party Name:Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad
Foundation:1948
Ideology:Hindutva
Hindu Nationalism
Anti-Hindu Code Bill
Position:Far-Right
Dissolution:1971
Merged:Bhartiya Jana Sangh
Founder:Swami Karpatri

Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad (RRP, "All India Council of Ram's Kingdom") was an Indian Hindu nationalist political party founded by Swami Karpatri in 1948.[1] The RRP won three Lok Sabha seats in the 1952 elections to the national Parliament and two in 1962.[2] In 1952, 1957 and 1962, it won several dozen Vidhan Sabha seats, all in the Hindi belt, mostly in Rajasthan. Like other Hindutva-based parties, the RRP fought against the implementation of the Hindu code bills in India.[3] The party eventually merged into the Jana Sangh, the precursor to the Bharatiya Janata Party.[3]

Electoral performance

Lok Sabha

YearLegislatureParty leaderSeats wonSeats changedPercentage (of votes)Votes swingPopular votesOutcome
1st Lok SabhaSwami Karpatri3newly formed1.97%newly formed20,91,898
19572nd Lok Sabha00.38%1.59%4,60,838
3rd Lok Sabha20.60%0.22%6,88,990

References

Notes and References

  1. News: Kumar . Sajjan . The conservative challenge to Hindutva . 28 August 2020 . The Hindu . 4 August 2020 . en-IN.
  2. Web site: Biographical sketches of Third Lok Sabha . 2006-08-14 . National Informatics Centre, Government of India . https://web.archive.org/web/20060519101624/http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok03/party/03ls12.htm . 2006-05-19 . dead .
  3. Web site: Uniform Civil Code: How RSS and Hindu swamis fought tooth and nail the Hindu Code Bill . LS Herdenia.