Bahujan Samaj Party

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), founded in 1984 and directed by Kanshi RAM, is the party of the out-castes or Intouchable S (also called Dalits). It thus represents the individuals with the lower statute in the hierarchy of Caste Hindou E and is opposed to what is regarded as an oppression on behalf of the high castes. The principal tool to fight against discrimination towards the untouchable ones is the policy of quotas close to the affirmative action in the United States. The audience of the party is primarily confined in the north of the country, where cleavages between castes are marked. The BSP quickly became a party resting on a system of clientelism, like the majority of the Indian political parties.

The BSP lays out, since the general legislative elections of April-May 2004, of 19 deputies out of 552 (+5 compared to 1999) at the Indian National Assembly (Lok Sabha), all resulting from the state of Uttar Pradesh (more populated Union) in the north of the country.

In February 1995, the BSP, primarily established in this state, was paradoxically combined with the BJP (left well established among the high castes), at the conclusion of the regional elections, and its representing, Mayawati, thus this state directed, until the BJP withdraws its support in October of the same year. The principal rival of the BSP in Uttar Pradesh is the Samajwadi Party (SP, party of lower castes whose row is higher than that of Dalits).

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