Indian political party Political party in India
| Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad | |
|---|---|
| Founder | Swami Karpatri |
| Founded | 1948 |
| Dissolved | 1971 |
| Merged into | Bhartiya Jana Sangh |
| Ideology | Hindutva Hindu Nationalism Anti-Hindu Code Bill |
| Political position | Far-Right |
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. The RRP won three Lok Sabha seats in the 1952 elections to the national Parliament and two in 1962. 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. The party eventually merged into the Jana Sangh, the precursor to the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Electoral performance
Lok Sabha
| Year | Legislature | Party leader | Seats won | Seats changed | Percentage
(of votes) |
Votes swing | Popular votes | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 1st Lok Sabha | Swami Karpatri | 3 | newly formed | 1.97% | newly formed | 20,91,898 | |
| 1957 | 2nd Lok Sabha | 0 |  3
|
0.38% | 1.59%
|
4,60,838 | ||
| 1962 | 3rd Lok Sabha | 2 |  2
|
0.60% | 0.22%
|
6,88,990 |
Notes
- Kumar, Sajjan (4 August 2020). "The conservative challenge to Hindutva". The Hindu. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
- "Biographical sketches of Third Lok Sabha". National Informatics Centre, Government of India. Archived from the original on 19 May 2006. Retrieved 14 August 2006.
- ^ LS Herdenia. "Uniform Civil Code: How RSS and Hindu swamis fought tooth and nail the Hindu Code Bill".
References
- Baxter, Craig (1971). The Jana Sangha. A Biography of an Indian Political Party. Delhi, India: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-7583-4.
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