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Bharipa - Bahujan Mahasangh
ChairpersonPrakash Ambedkar[1]
Founded4 July 1994[2]
Merged intoVanchit Bahujan Aghadi (2019)
NewspaperPrabuddha Bharat
Youth wingBharipa Bahujan Federation[3]
IdeologyDalit Socialism
Secularism
Political positionCentre-left
Colours  Blue
Website
www.bharip.org

The Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh (IAST: Bhāripa Bahujana Mahāsaṅgha; abbr. BBM) was an Indian political party founded by Prakash Ambedkar on 4 July 1994.[4] The party was a splinter group of the Republican Party of India and had its roots in the Scheduled Castes Federation led by B. R. Ambedkar. The president of the party was Prakash Ambedkar. The complete name of the party is Bharatiya Republican Paksha - Bahujan Mahasangh (Republican Party of India - Majority Grand Union). BBM was primarily based in Maharashtra.[5][6] In 2019, BBM merged into the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi, new political party founded by Prakash Ambedkar.[7][8]

History

The party was formed on 4 July 1994, through a split in the Republican Party of India. The party was led by Prakash Ambedkar, the grandson of B. R. Ambedkar.

In the elections to the Maharashtra state assembly 1999 BBM put up 34 candidates. In the 13th Lok Sabha elections during 1999, Ambedkar was elected from the constituency Akola.[9]

In the Lok Sabha election 2004 the party lost its parliamentary representation. In total the party had launched 16 candidates, all from Maharashtra. In Akola, Ambedkar was defeated by a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate. BBM totalled 606,827 votes, and won three seats.

In 2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election Baliram Sirskar won from Balapur in Akola on Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh ticket[10] by a margin of 6939 votes.[11]

On 20 March 2018, Prakash Ambedkar founded new political party named the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi. On 14 March 2019, Ambedkar has announced the Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh will merge with the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi. He said that, despite the 'Akola pattern' of social engineering through the success of the Bharipa-Bahujan Mahasangh, the word 'Bharipa' (RPI) had limited the expansion of the party. He said that after the Lok Sabha elections 2019, the Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh will merge with the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi, because the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi is acceptable in a broad sense.[12][13][14][15] On 8 November 2019, the Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangha merged into the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi.[16]

Electoral Performance

Lok Sabha Elections

Lok Sabha Term Indian
General Election 		Seats
contested 		Seats
won 		Party Votes Party Votes % State (seats)
11th Lok Sabha 1996 4 0 3,29,695 1.2 Maharashtra (0)
13th Lok Sabha 1999 4 1 5,92,559 2.1 Maharashtra (1)
14th Lok Sabha 2004 16 0 4,28,566 1.3 Maharashtra (0)
15th Lok Sabha 2009 39 0 4,92,470 1.3 Maharashtra (0)
16th Lok Sabha 2014 23 0 3,60,854 0.7% Maharashtra (0)

Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha Elections

Vidhan Sabha Term Maharashtra
General Election 		Seats
contested 		Seats
won 		Party Votes Party Votes %
10th Vidhan Sabha 1999 34 3 6,06,827 1.8
11th Vidhan Sabha 2004 83 1 5,16,221 1.2
12th Vidhan Sabha 2009 103 1 3,76,645 0.8
13th Vidhan Sabha 2014 70 1 4,72,925 0.9

See also

References

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  2. ^ "official site". Archived from the original on November 11, 2016. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
  3. ^ "official". Archived from the original on 3 July 2014.
  4. ^ The Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh founded on 4 July 1994 — The constitution of the BBM, page no. 1; Available to the Election Commission of India.
  5. ^ "भारिप-बहुजन महासंघ के अध्यक्ष प्रकाश अंबेडकर का नए राजनीतिक गठबंधन का ऐलान". aajtak.in (in Hindi). 20 June 2018. Archived from the original on 1 May 2019. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  6. ^ खोरे, अरुण (7 January 2018). "आंबेडकर की विरासत संभाल पाएंगे उनके पोते?". Archived from the original on 1 May 2019. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  7. ^ "अखेर भारिप-बमसं 'वंचित'मध्ये विलीन!". 9 November 2019.
  8. ^ "भारिप बहुजन महासंघ का वंचित बहुजन आघाडी में विलय, Rpi का अस्तित्व समाप्त". YouTube. Archived from the original on 22 December 2021.
  9. ^ "Members Bioprofile". Lok Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi website. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2009.
  10. ^ "Left Front wins in just 8 seats". DNA India. 20 October 2014. Archived from the original on 6 April 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  11. ^ "Page Not Found". eciresults.nic.in. Archived from the original on 30 April 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2019. ((cite web)): Cite uses generic title (help)
  12. ^ "भारिप बहुजन महासंघ निवडणुकीनंतर वंचित आघाडीत विलीन होणार: प्रकाश आंबेडकर". Loksatta (in Marathi). 14 March 2019. Archived from the original on 1 May 2019. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  13. ^ अकोला, उमेश अलोणे, एबीपी माझा (14 March 2019). "भारिप बहुजन महासंघ वंचित आघाडीत विलीन करणार, प्रकाश आंबेडकरांची घोषणा". ABP Majha (in Marathi). Retrieved 25 May 2019.((cite web)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ author/online-lokmat (14 March 2019). "भारिप बहुजन महासंघ वंचित बहुजन आघाडीत विलीन करणार, प्रकाश आंबेडकरांचा मोठा निर्णय". Lokmat. Archived from the original on 1 May 2019. Retrieved 25 May 2019. ((cite web)): |last= has generic name (help)
  15. ^ "प्रकाश आंबेडकरांचा Big Decision..भारिप बहुजन महासंघ वंचित बहुजन आघाडीत विलीन करणार". divyamarathi (in Marathi). 14 March 2019. Archived from the original on 1 May 2019. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  16. ^ "अखेर भारिप-बमसं 'वंचित'मध्ये विलीन!". 9 November 2019.

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