Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad
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{{Infobox Indian political party
|party_name = Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad
|flag =
|colorcode = {{party color|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.{{cite news |last1=Kumar |first1=Sajjan |title=The conservative challenge to Hindutva |url=https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-conservative-challenge-to-hindutva/article32262217.ece |access-date=28 August 2020 |work=The Hindu |date=4 August 2020 |language=en-IN}} The RRP won three Lok Sabha seats in the 1952 elections to the national Parliament and two in 1962.{{cite web |url=http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok03/party/03ls12.htm |title=Biographical sketches of Third Lok Sabha |access-date=2006-08-14 |publisher=National Informatics Centre, Government of India |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060519101624/http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok03/party/03ls12.htm |archive-date=2006-05-19 |url-status=dead }} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.milligazette.com/news/15839-uniform-civil-code-how-rss-and-hindu-swamis-fought-tooth-and-nail-the-hindu-code-bill |title=Uniform Civil Code: How RSS and Hindu swamis fought tooth and nail the Hindu Code Bill |author=LS Herdenia}} The party eventually merged into the Jana Sangh, the precursor to the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Electoral performance
= Lok Sabha =
class="wikitable"
!Year !Legislature !Party leader !Seats won !Seats changed !Percentage (of votes) !Votes swing !Popular votes !Outcome |
1952
| rowspan="3" |Swami Karpatri |3 |newly formed |1.97% |newly formed |20,91,898 | |
1957
|0 |{{Centre|{{decrease}}3}} |0.38% |{{Decrease}}1.59% |4,60,838 | |
1962
|2 |{{Centre|{{increase}}2}} |0.60% |{{Increase}}0.22% |6,88,990 | |
Notes
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References
- {{cite book |last=Baxter |first=Craig |author-link=Craig Baxter |title=The Jana Sangha. A Biography of an Indian Political Party |year=1971 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Delhi, India |isbn=978-0-8122-7583-4 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/janasanghbiograp0000baxt }}
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