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  CalendarHome.com - All India Forward Bloc - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The conference declared the Forward Bloc to be a socialist political party, and the date of June 22 is considered as the founding date of the party by the Forward Bloc itself.
Muthuramalingam Thevar from Tamil Nadu was elected as deputy chairman of the party.
In 2002 AIFB was one of four leftwing parties that nominated Lakshmi Sehgal as a candidate for the presidency of India.
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  Samyukta Socialist Party at AllExperts
Samyukta Socialist Party (United Socialist Party, SSP), was a political party in India from 1964 to 1972.
SSP was formed through a split in the Praja Socialist Party (PSP) in 1964.
The General Secretary of the SSP from 1969 to 1971 was George Fernandes.
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  Praja Socialist Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Praja Socialist Party was an Indian political party in existence from 1952 to 1972.
It was founded when the Socialist Party, led by Jayprakash Narayan and Acharya Narendra Deva, merged with the Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party led by J.B. Kripalani (formerly a close associate of Jawaharlal Nehru).
At the party's first general election in 1957, the PSP won 10% of the vote (the second-highest after Congress) and 19 seats in the Lok Sabha.
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 Samyukta Socialist Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samyukta Socialist Party (United Socialist Party), a political party in India.
SSP was formed through a split in the Praja Socialist Party 1964.
In 1972 SSP was reunited with PSP, forming the Socialist Party.
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 Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) - Iridis Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The party got around 0,4% of the votes and three seats in the Lok Sabha elections 1999 and 2004.
The party was founded on March 19 1940 and has its roots in the Bengali liberation movement Anushlian Samiti and the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army.
RSP meant that the socialist Soviet Union had to be defended, but that the best way for Indian revolutionaries to do that was to overthrow the colonial rule in their own country.
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In 1960 the party took part in the formation of a coalition government in the state, consisting of the Indian National Congress, Praja Socialist Party and IUML.
In 1969 the party left the CPI(M)-led government and participated in the formation of a new government, led by Communist Party of India leader Achutha Menon as Chief Minister, together with CPI, RSP, KSP and Kerala Congress.
The party is today part of the United Progressive Alliance central government and party secretary E. Ahmed is the Minister of State for External Affairs.
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 SAMYUKTA SOCIALIST PARTY v. ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA & ANR [1966] INSC 193; [1967] 1 SCR 643; AIR 1967 SC 898 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Election Commission on being moved by the Praja Socialist Party withdrew the 'Hut' as the symbol of the Samyukta Socialist Party and restored it to the Praja Socialist Party.
The Praja Socialist Party claims that this restored the position as it was before the merger while the Samyukta Socialist Party claims that the merger was final and the Samyukta Socialist Party as the united Party continues although some members have been guilty of defection.
After 1957 the Socialist Party was recognised as a Political Party in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan and in the Union Territory of Manipur and was allotted the symbol 'Tree' which became its reserved symbol.
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 India Discussion Forum - Indian History, Culture, Politics, News, Strategic Security, Hinduism. -> Political Analysis
A socialist party that is supported in West Bengal, the Forward Bloc held three seats in the Lok Sabha after the 1957, 1977, 1989, and 1991 elections.
The JKNC is a socialist party opposed to Hindu communalism that operates in the states of Jammu and Kashmir.
The SSP was founded in 1964, as the result of a merger of factions from the Praja Socialist Party and the Socialist Party.
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 RAMASHANKAR KAUSHIK AND ANOTHER v. ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER [1973] INSC 208; [1974] 2 SCR 265; [1974] 1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Socialist Party had-been dissolved and that a new Socialist party was.
It appears that the National Ad-hoc Committee of the Socialist Party met in Lonavla on October 22, 23 and 24, 1971 and took a decision as regards its election symbol.
If a political party is treated as a recognised political party under paragraph 6 in less than four States, it shall be known and shall enjoy the status of a "State Party" in the State or States in which it is a recognised political party.
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 Welcome to YS Rajasekhar Reddy, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister's Portal, YSR, Andhra Pradesh CM, India, CM, AP CM, YSR ...
The one-party rule of the Congress was successfully challenged by matinee idol N T Rama Rao, who founded the Telugu Desam (TD) and gave the state its first non-Congress government in 1983.
Both the Janta Party and the Congress (Socialist) were marginalised within no time when many of the 90 MLAs belonging to these two parties defected back to the Congress to claim crumbs of power from Dr Channa Reddy and T Anjaiah.
Parties such as the Bharatiya Janata Party and the two Left parties, which nurtured ambitions of emerging as a third alternative, had to align with one of the major players for survival.
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 Socialists - Search Results - MSN Encarta
The literature which called itself 'realistic' was just as formalized and imaginary as the bucolic romances of the eighteenth century.
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The largest socialist organization in the United States, and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International.
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The foremost stronghold of the party is northern Kerala, were the party is the leading political force in many areas.
In 1960 the party took party in the formation of a coalition government in the state, consisting of the Indian National Congress, Praja Socialist Party and IUML.
The party is today part of the United Progressive Alliance central government and party secretary E. Ahmed is a minister in that government.
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 ELECTION DATA
On 17th-March-1954, PSP minstry with Shri.Pattom A. Thanu Pilla as the CM took charge.An agitation by the Travancore Tamil Nadu Congress demanding merger of southern parts of Travancore with Tamil Nadu turned violent and led to the death of seven in police firing.
The PSP and ISP(Indian Socialist Party) combined to form the Samyukta Socialist Party.
KTP with one seat, Swathanthra Party with one seat and six independents were the other victors.
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 [Alternatives] : Genesis and Development
That the charter of demands was dismissed in the first instance by the political parties had much to do with their bloated self-image, borne of being "mainstream" parties, either in power or as contenders for acquiring power.
And the party was engaged in discussing the strategic importance of democracy for the new Nepal in the making, as well as the question of dissent, discipline and centralisation during the war within the party.
A senior leader and ideologue of the party, C P Manali, was also of a similar view, that various deviations regarding the character of the party, its functional style and disciplinary matters have surfaced.
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 A colourful maverick fades out
Recently, veteran Socialist and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda split his own Janata Dal (Secular) in Karnataka and supported his son in forming a defectors' government in alliance with the BJP.
Most veteran Socialists are to be found in regional groupings like the Samajwadi Party, or in small one-person outfits.
The Socialist movement was marred by three great flaws: obsessive anti-Congressism; Cold War-style anti-Communism which prevented unity of the broad Left; and personality-led politics.
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The party which had been hovering around 140 seats in the 1996 and 1998 elections, plummeted to an all-time low of 112 seats while its president, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, was elected from two seats.
The parties which have every reason to rejoice the verdict, incidentally, are the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party, who with their respective tallies of 26 and 13, improved on their past performance.
The Samajwadi Party has a special reason to rejoice — its tally of 26 is more than the score of all previous Socialist formations — the erstwhile Socialist Party, the erstwhile Samyukta Socialist Party and the erstwhile Praja Socialist Party.
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 Ram Vilas Paswan at AllExperts
He currently leads the Lok Janshakti Party which he founded in 2000 and is a member of the Indian Parliament from Hajipur, Bihar.
Paswan was elected to the Bihar state assembly in 1969 as a member of the Samyukta Socialist Party ("United Socialist Party").
This stalemate was broken when Nitish Kumar succeeded in persuading members of Paswan's party to defect; to prevent the formation of a right-wing government supported by LJP defectors, the Governor of Bihar, Buta Singh dissolved the state legislature and called for fresh elections, keeping Bihar under President's Rule.
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 The official site of M.P Veerendrakumar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Was inducted into the socialist movement by the legendary Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan at the tender age of 15.
Was National Committee Member of the erstwhile Samyukta Socialist Party and afterwards became its All India Treasurer.
Was the Vice President of the erstwhile Janata Party, Kerala State Committee and acted as its President for a while.
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 Third General Elections, 1962
The essence of parliamentary democracy is party government and a party government cannot succeed without an organised party system.
  The party aims at achieving by democratic and peaceful means a socialist society free from social, political and economic exploitation of man by man and nation by nation.
  The party won one seat in the general elections in 1967 and one in the Mid-Term Poll in 1969 to the Punjab Vidhan Sabha in the district.
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Sukumar Sen, Chief Election Commissioner, said in Nagpur on July 17 that new political parties like the Socialist Party (Dr. Lohia Group) and Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti would not be allotted symbols for the ensuing general elections as their electoral strength was not known.
If any candidate desired to contest the election on behalf of these parties, the individual would have to choose from among the free symbols, like cycle, pair of scales, etc. In that case the candidate and the party would have to intimate the Election Commission before the last date of withdrawal of candidature.
The new parties might get recognition after the election on national or State basis if it was found that they had secured three per cent of the total polling figures.
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The two "major parties" in India are the BJP (led by Vajpayee) and the Congress (led by Sonia Gandhi).
The left parties, most notably the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India, contested on their own in their strongholds West Bengal, Tripura and Kerala, confronting both Congress and NDA forces.
The rout of the ruling parties in the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala in the general elections led to calls for the dissolution of the governments of these states.
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 Tehelka - The People's Paper
The inability of the socialists to steer clear of these two highly divisive and retrogressive social factors is surprising since there was no dearth of towering personalities among them, whether it was Ram Manohar Lohia or Jayaprakash Narayan (jp), not to mention other luminaries like Acharya Narendra Dev, Achyut Patwardhan and others.
The contribution of the socialists (and also of the communists) to it is not inconsiderable.
Although Asoka Mehta created a stir in the socialist and opposition ranks by joining the Congress in the later stages of his life (just as jp and jB Kripalani had left the Congress) and Limaye was suspected to have teamed up with Sanjay Gandhi to bring down the Morarji Desai government.
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 'BJP gave me false hopes'
When I joined the BJP last year, I was told by senior party leaders that the BJP was going to tread the path of secularism and leaders like me were the need of the hour.
I was outraged when the party during its national executive meetings in Goa and Ranchi decided to uphold Hindutva as its core political mission.
The party is not present in the southern states.
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 The Office of Speaker Lok Sabha
No single political party could secure an absolute majority of its own in the House and there was, for the first time in the history of Indian Parliament, a 'hung Parliament'.
He was the Leader of the Parliamentary Group of the Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) during this period.
After ascertaining the views of the Leaders of various parties and groups in the House, seven members were allowed to make brief submissions on the matters of urgent public importance one by one provided they gave their notices by 10.30 A.M. on the day of the sitting.
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He always remained in the forefront of the socialist movement because of his innate qualities of leadership and transparent sincerity to the socialist cause.
He became the leader of the Samyukta Socialist Party in the parliament during this period though there were strong leaders like Karpuri Thakur and Raj Narayan.
It is really astonishing that BJD is a regional party and it is in power in the state for the second time.
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 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 676   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Mr Fernandes's is the latest case of a Socialist turning a traitor to his cause.
Today, the Socialist movement, which emerged as an independent current in 1934, is in danger of dissolution.
The Socialist movement was marred by three great flaws: obsessive anti-Congressism; Cold War-style anti-Communism, which prevented joint actions with the rest of the Left; and personality-led politics.
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 Freeindiamedia.com, Express your impartial, radical, grassroot views on current issues.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The United Front (Samyukt Vidhanayak Dal) that included the Jana Sangh, the Swatantra Party, the Samyukta Socialist Party, and Independents was formed with 93 MLAs under the leadership of Maharawal Luxman Singh.
On March 4, 1967, he called Mohan Lal Sukhadia to form the government on the ground that the Congress was "the largest party in the House." There were strong protests in the media and from the Opposition.
It is to the credit of the Opposition in Parliament that it took up each case and initiated a full debate under one or other of the provisions of the Rules of Procedure to expose the misuse of the office of Governor and discriminatory imposition of President's Rule.
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 The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : Needed, a constructive Opposition
The United Front (Samyukt Vidhanayak Dal) that included the Jana Sangh, the Swatantra Party, the Samyukta Socialist Party, and Independents was formed with 93 MLAs under the leadership of Maharawal Luxman Singh.
On March 4, 1967, he called Mohan Lal Sukhadia to form the government on the ground that the Congress was "the largest party in the House." There were strong protests in the media and from the Opposition.
It is to the credit of the Opposition in Parliament that it took up each case and initiated a full debate under one or other of the provisions of the Rules of Procedure to expose the misuse of the office of Governor and discriminatory imposition of President's Rule.
www.thehindu.com /2005/03/23/stories/2005032303871000.htm   (1189 words)

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