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.[1] After the 1977 general election, the successor party of the BKD, Bharatiya Lok Dal was merged into the Janata Party.[2]
Bharatiya Kranti Dal | |
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| Founder | Charan Singh |
| Founded | October 1967 |
| Succeeded by | Bharatiya Lok Dal |
| Colours | Green |
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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.[3]: 37 At Indore session of BKD in November 1967, Mahamaya Prasad Sinha was elected as first chairman of the party.[3]: 83
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- ^ 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.
- ^ E.M.S. Namboodiripad. The Communist Party in Kerala — Six Decades of Struggle and Advance. New Delhi: National Book Centre, 1994. p. 265-266
- ^ a b Brass, Paul R. (2014). An Indian Political Life: Charan Singh and Congress Politics, 1967 to 1987 - Vol.3 (The Politics of Northern India). Sage India. ISBN 978-9351500322.
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