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Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad

अखिल भारतीय रामराज्य परिषद्
Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad अखिल भारतीय रामराज्य परिषद्
Abbreviation	RRP
President	Swaroopanand Saraswati (1950s)
Founder	Swami Karpatri
Founded	7 April 1949
Split from	Vasudev Shastri "Atul" (V.S. Atul) (disbanded); Prem Ballabh Vyas (disputed);
Succeeded by	Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad (Prem Ballabh Vyas)
Headquarters	Jaipur (formerly); Shri Krishna Bodha Dham, 7, Shankaracharya Marg, Civil Lines, New Delhi, 110054;
Ideology	Hindutva; Hindu Nationalism; Anti-Hindu Code Bill
Political position	Far-Right
Slogan	Dharma ki jaya ho! (Victory to Dharma); Adharma ka nasha ho! (Destruction to Adharma); Praniyon me sadbhavana ho! (May there be good-faith in beings); Vishwa ka kalyana ho! (May there be welfare of the world); Gau Hatya Banda ho! (Ban cow-slaughter); Gau mata ki jai ho! (Victory to mother cow); Hara Hara Mahadeva! (Shiva Invocation);
ECI Status	Registered Unrecognized Political Party (RUPP) (disputed)
Election symbol
Party flag
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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 1949,^[1] ^[2] headquartered in Jaipur.^[3] The RRP won three Lok Sabha seats in the 1952 elections to the national Parliament and two in 1962.^[4] 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.^[5] The election symbol of the party was the rising sun.^[6] In the 1950s, Swaroopanand Saraswati was its president.^[7].

Electoral performance

Lok Sabha

Year	Legislature	Party leader	Seats won	Seats changed	Percentage (of votes)	Votes swing	Popular votes
1952	1st Lok Sabha	Swami Karpatri	3	newly formed	1.97%	newly formed	20,91,898
1957	2nd Lok Sabha		0	3	0.38%	1.59%	4,60,838
1962	3rd Lok Sabha		2	2	0.60%	0.22%	6,88,990

Misconceptions

Many modern media reports falsely attribute Hanwant Singh as the founder of the this party,^[8]^[9]^[10] but it was actually founded by Swami Karpatri in 1948.^[11]^[12] There's another misconception that this party eventually merged into the Jana Sangh, the precursor to the Bharatiya Janata Party,^[5] but it lacks authenticity.^[13] The only time a genuine institutional merger was officially considered was between 1952 and 1953, initiated by Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (Jana Sangh) and N. C. Chatterjee (Hindu Mahasabha).^[14]^[15]

Bibliography

Baxter, Craig (1971). The Jana Sangha. A Biography of an Indian Political Party. Delhi, India: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-7583-4.

References

↑ "Akhil Bhartiya Ramrajya Parishad - Contribution Reports Year 2009-10 - Election Commission of India". Archived from the original on 13 September 2021. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
↑ Kumar, Sajjan (4 August 2020). "The conservative challenge to Hindutva". The Hindu. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
↑ "SATYAGRAHA AGAINST HINDU CODE BILL". The Indian Express. 7 February 1950. p. 7.
↑ "Biographical sketches of Third Lok Sabha". National Informatics Centre, Government of India. Archived from the original on 19 May 2006. Retrieved 14 August 2006.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 LS Herdenia. "Uniform Civil Code: How RSS and Hindu swamis fought tooth and nail the Hindu Code Bill".
↑ Election Commission of India (16 July 2018). "Symbols of 14 National Political Parties that contested during the first General Elections in 1951 – 52. #ElectionCommissionOfIndia #ElectionCommission #ECI". Facebook.
↑ Singh, Soutik BiswasN K. (31 July 1993). "Controversial Shankaracharya, Swaroopanand challenges VHP's role in building Ram temple". India Today. Retrieved 8 September 2026.
↑ Bhandari, Prakash (16 November 2023). "Rajasthan elections: Royals in the fray bear ancestral legacy". National Herald. Archived from the original on 9 November 2025. Retrieved 9 September 2026.
↑ "Maharaja of Jodhpur used aircraft for LS campaigns in 1952 - The Times of India". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 9 September 2026. Retrieved 9 September 2026.
↑ "Election 2014: No thrill in princess versus pauper in Jodhpur - Politics News , Firstpost". Firstpost. 14 April 2014. Archived from the original on 15 January 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2026.
↑ कुमावत, स्मित पालीवाल/रमेश (28 October 2023). "सीएम को 2 जगहों से हरवाने वाले हनवंत सिंह: फिर भी नहीं बनी राजशाही सरकार, जीतने से पहले पूर्व महाराज की मौत - Rajasthan News". Dainik Bhaskar (in हिन्दी). Retrieved 9 September 2026.
↑ Baxter, Craig (1969). The Jana Sangh; a biography of an Indian political party. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-8122-7583-4.
↑ Dasgupta, Koushiki (2021). Sadhus in Indian politics: dynamics of Hindutva. New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd. p. 110. ISBN 978-93-91370-93-0. Retrieved 8 October 2026.
↑ Baxter, Craig (2016). The Jana Sangh: A Biography of an Indian Political Party. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 108. ISBN 9781512800326. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
↑ Lal, A. B. (1956). The Indian parliament. Chaitanya Publishing House. p. 65. Retrieved 8 October 2026.

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[1] "Akhil Bhartiya Ramrajya Parishad - Contribution Reports Year 2009-10 - Election Commission of India". Archived from the original on 13 September 2021. Retrieved 13 September 2021.

[2] Kumar, Sajjan (4 August 2020). "The conservative challenge to Hindutva". The Hindu. Retrieved 28 August 2020.

[3] "SATYAGRAHA AGAINST HINDU CODE BILL". The Indian Express. 7 February 1950. p. 7.

[4] "Biographical sketches of Third Lok Sabha". National Informatics Centre, Government of India. Archived from the original on 19 May 2006. Retrieved 14 August 2006.

[Bell-5] 5.0 ^5.1 LS Herdenia. "Uniform Civil Code: How RSS and Hindu swamis fought tooth and nail the Hindu Code Bill".

[6] Election Commission of India (16 July 2018). "Symbols of 14 National Political Parties that contested during the first General Elections in 1951 – 52. #ElectionCommissionOfIndia #ElectionCommission #ECI". Facebook.

[7] Singh, Soutik BiswasN K. (31 July 1993). "Controversial Shankaracharya, Swaroopanand challenges VHP's role in building Ram temple". India Today. Retrieved 8 September 2026.

[8] Bhandari, Prakash (16 November 2023). "Rajasthan elections: Royals in the fray bear ancestral legacy". National Herald. Archived from the original on 9 November 2025. Retrieved 9 September 2026.

[9] "Maharaja of Jodhpur used aircraft for LS campaigns in 1952 - The Times of India". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 9 September 2026. Retrieved 9 September 2026.

[10] "Election 2014: No thrill in princess versus pauper in Jodhpur - Politics News , Firstpost". Firstpost. 14 April 2014. Archived from the original on 15 January 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2026.

[:0-11] कुमावत, स्मित पालीवाल/रमेश (28 October 2023). "सीएम को 2 जगहों से हरवाने वाले हनवंत सिंह: फिर भी नहीं बनी राजशाही सरकार, जीतने से पहले पूर्व महाराज की मौत - Rajasthan News". Dainik Bhaskar (in हिन्दी). Retrieved 9 September 2026.

[12] Baxter, Craig (1969). The Jana Sangh; a biography of an Indian political party. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-8122-7583-4.

[Sadhus-13] Dasgupta, Koushiki (2021). Sadhus in Indian politics: dynamics of Hindutva. New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd. p. 110. ISBN 978-93-91370-93-0. Retrieved 8 October 2026.

[Jana-14] Baxter, Craig (2016). The Jana Sangh: A Biography of an Indian Political Party. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 108. ISBN 9781512800326. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)

[15] Lal, A. B. (1956). The Indian parliament. Chaitanya Publishing House. p. 65. Retrieved 8 October 2026.

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