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Uttarakhand Kranti Dal
Uttarakhand Kranti Dal
Abbreviation	UKD
Leader	Pooran Singh Kathait
President	Pooran Singh Kathait
Founder	Devi Datt Pant; Indramani Badoni; Kashi Singh Airy; Diwakar Bhatt; Surendra Kukreti
Founded	26 July 1979 (47 years ago)
Headquarters	Kranti Bhavan, 10 Court Road, Dehradun-248001, Uttarakhand
Ideology	Regionalism; Protectionism; Civic nationalism; Democratic socialism; Secularism
Political position	Center-left
Colours	Myrtle green
ECI Status	Registered Unrecognised Party
Seats in Lok Sabha	0 / 5
Seats in Rajya Sabha	0 / 3
Seats in Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly	0 / 70
Election symbol
Website
	ourukd.in
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The Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (translation: Uttarakhand Revolutionary Party; abbr. UKD), is a registered unrecognised regional political party in Uttarakhand, India. Founded in 1979, the party was built upon the aim of establishing a separate hill-state to combat administrative neglect and ensure sustainable development with respect to the sensitive ecology of the Himalayan region. Through the 80s and late 90s UKD became the principal leader of the Uttarakhand Statehood Movement and is credited by for bringing about the separation and creation of Uttarakhand as the 27th state of India on 9 November 2000.

In the present Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly, elected in 2022, it did not have any member as compared with one member in the previous 2012, three members in 2007 and four members in 2002 assembly elections of the state.^[1]

History[edit | edit source]

The UKD was established after an extended period of non-unified civil activism movements across Uttar the hilly districts of Uttar Pradesh on 26 July 1979 by Bipin Chandra Tripathi, Prof. Devi Datt Pant, Indramani Badoni and Kashi Singh Airy at Nanital. The party was formed under the leadership of some of the major political forces within the region and aimed at promoting unified activism to struggle for a separate state composed of the hill districts of Uttar Pradesh.

The founding convention was chaired by Prof. Devi Datt Pant, former vice-chancellor of Kumaon University. Under the young leadership of Kashi Singh Airy who took the charge of struggle and public agitations.

In 1988, Badoni did a 105-day foot march under the banner of Uttarakhand Kranti Dal. This procession ran from Tawaghat in Pithoragarh to Dehradun. He went from door to door in the village and told the people the benefits of a separate state. In 1992, he declared Gairsain the capital of Uttarakhand on the day of Makar Sankranti in Bageshwar.^[2]

The Uttarakhand Movement soon bore fruition after various cases of police administrative and police brutality in the later half of the movement, when the separate Uttaranchal state was formed on 9 November 2000 by the then BJP lead government. The change in state name to "Uttaranchal" garnered widespread criticism from UKD representatives and civilian activists for being an attempt at diluting the sacrifice of regional groups like the UKD.

However, in the first-ever state assembly elections in 2002, the party won only four out of 70 seats and was outmaneuvered by the Indian National Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party, both despite being latecomers to the Uttarakhand statehood movement, succeeded in capturing its momentum for electoral gain and formed governments in the state.^{[citation needed]}

Leadership[edit | edit source]

The party's current face is Pooran Singh Kathait, who is party's central President since 2023. Under his leadership, Uttarakhand Kranti Dal is fighting for the causes of natives of Uttarakhand. There are various other leaders like Sh. Kashi Singh Airy, a prominent leader of the Uttarakhand statehood movement and a senior leader of Uttarakhand Kranti Dal, who was elected for Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly three times (1985–1989, 1989–1991, 1993–1996) from Didihat and was elected for first Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. The executive president of the party is Harish Chandra Pathak—senior statehood activist and prominent face of Uttarakhand statehood movement who fought from the forefront in the creation of Uttarakhand state. Jaswant Singh Bisht was the first elected MLA of the party from Ranikhet constituency. Other personalities include Indramani Badoni, Devi Datt Pant, Bipin Chandra Tripathi and Diwakar Bhatt who were among the founding members and long time agitators for the Uttarakhand statehood movement.

Factionalism and decline[edit | edit source]

In the 2012 Uttarakhand Assembly election, Uttarakhand Kranti Dal contested as Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (P) led by then party president Trivendra Singh Panwar. The original party name and the election symbol (chair) was frozen by the Election Commission of India following the factionalism and leadership dispute within the party that led to its breakup. The splinter group Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (D) led by former MLA and Cabinet Minister in the Khanduri government and later Pokhriyal government, Diwakar Bhatt broke away from the UKD with his supporters claiming the original party leadership. Pritam Singh Panwar was the only winning candidate of the party in the 2012 Assembly election, who ran under the UKD(P) banner.

Uttarakhand Kranti Dal's original name and party symbol were restored in 2017 with the merger of both groups.

The party's performance in various assembly and parliamentary elections has been on a consistent decline. The main reasons cited for UKD's decline in the politics of Uttarakhand are; inner factionalism, loss of voter base to other parties and frequent switching for power share between the BJP and Congress governments, which is often viewed negatively as political opportunism.

Electoral performance[edit | edit source]

Uttar Pradesh[edit | edit source]

Legislative Assembly elections[edit | edit source]

Year	Legislature	Party leader	Seats won	Change in seats	Outcome
1980	8th Vidhan Sabha	Devi Datt Pant	0 / 425	Template:New	–
1985	9th Vidhan Sabha	Indramani Badoni	0 / 425		–
1989	10th Vidhan Sabha	Bipin Chandra Tripathi	1 / 425	1	Opposition
1991	11th Vidhan Sabha	Bipin Chandra Tripathi	0 / 425	1	–
1993	12th Vidhan Sabha	Kashi Singh Airy	1 / 425	1	Opposition
1996	13th Vidhan Sabha	Kashi Singh Airy	0 / 425	1	–

Lok Sabha elections[edit | edit source]

Year	Legislature	Party leader	Seats won	Change in seats	Outcome
1980	7th Lok Sabha	Devi Datt Pant	0 / 85	Template:New	–
1984	8th Lok Sabha	Indramani Badoni	0 / 85
1989	9th Lok Sabha	Bipin Chandra Tripathi	0 / 85
1991	10th Lok Sabha	Bipin Chandra Tripathi	0 / 85
1996	11th Lok Sabha	Kashi Singh Airy	0 / 85
1998	12th Lok Sabha		0 / 85
1999	13th Lok Sabha		0 / 85

Uttarakhand[edit | edit source]

Legislative Assembly elections[edit | edit source]

Year	Legislature	Party leader	Seats won	Change in seats	Outcome
2002	1st Vidhan Sabha	Bipin Chandra Tripathi	4 / 70	Template:New 4	Opposition
2007	2nd Vidhan Sabha	Diwakar Bhatt	3 / 70	1	Government with BJP
2012	3rd Vidhan Sabha	Trivendra Singh Panwar	1 / 70	2	Government with INC
2017	4th Vidhan Sabha	Kashi Singh Airy	0 / 70	1	–
2022	5th Vidhan Sabha	Diwakar Bhatt	0 / 70		–

Lok Sabha elections[edit | edit source]

Year	Legislature	Party leader	Seats won	Change in seats	Outcome
2004	14th Lok Sabha	Bipin Chandra Tripathi	0 / 5	Template:New	–
2009	15th Lok Sabha	Diwakar Bhatt	0 / 5
2014	16th Lok Sabha	Trivendra Singh Panwar	0 / 5
2019	17th Lok Sabha	Kashi Singh Airy	0 / 5
2024	18th Lok Sabha	Diwakar Bhatt	0 / 5

Legacy[edit | edit source]

The party has taken on various campaigns in the past geared towards the social and economic upliftment of the Pahari people. The party has embraced a number of causes of concern to the diversity of people living in Uttarakhand, defining the Uttarakhandi identity in broad and inclusive terms. As such, its ideology of civic as opposed to ethnic nationalism can be compared to other centre-left nationalist parties like the Scottish National Party or the Plaid Cymru, although its orientation and goals are emphatically non-secessionist.

The party has been among the most active campaigners of the bhu Kanoon Movement and campaigned heavily to ensure judicial justice in the Ankita Bhandari Murder case.

References[edit | edit source]

↑ 2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election
↑ Lohani, Girish (18 August 2019). "Indramani Badoni Archives". Kafal Tree. Retrieved 29 February 2024.

External links[edit | edit source]

Official Website of Uttarakhand Kranti Dal
A website established by UKD supporters Archived 8 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine.
उत्तराखण्ड क्रान्ति दल का इतिहास
A video of UKD public meeting
Uttarakhand Solidarity Network Web Portal Library
allindoon.com Archived 13 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine
legalassistanceforum.org
lawcollegedehradun.com^{[permanent dead link]}
garhwalpost.com^{[permanent dead link]}

[1] 2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election

[2] Lohani, Girish (18 August 2019). "Indramani Badoni Archives". Kafal Tree. Retrieved 29 February 2024.

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-|  leader = [[Kashi Singh Airy]]
+|  leader = [[Pooran Singh Kathait]]
-|  president = [[Diwakar Bhatt]]
+|  president = [[Pooran Singh Kathait]]
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-|  foundation     = {{Start date and years ago|df=yes|p=y|1979|07|26}}
+|  foundation     = {{Start date and age|df=yes|p=y|1979|07|26}}
-| founder = [[Devi Datt Pant]]<br>[[Indramani Badoni]]<br>[[Kashi Singh Airy]]<br>[[Surendra Kukreti]]
+| founder = Devi Datt Pant<br>Indramani Badoni<br>[[Kashi Singh Airy]]<br>[[Diwakar Bhatt]]<br>Surendra Kukreti
 | headquarters = Kranti Bhavan, 10 Court Road, [[Dehradun]]-248001, [[Uttarakhand]]
-|  ideology = [[Regionalism (politics)|Regionalism]]<br>[[Protectionism]]<br>[[Civic nationalism]]<br>[[Democratic socialism]]
+|  ideology = [[Regionalism (politics)|Regionalism]]<br>[[Protectionism]]<br>[[Civic nationalism]]<br>[[Democratic socialism]]<br>[[Secularism]]
 | colours           = {{colour box|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} [[Myrtle green]]
-| position = [[Regional politics]]
+| position = [[Center-left politics|Center-left]]
 | state_seats_name = [[Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly]]
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 | rajyasabha_seats = {{Composition bar|0|3|hex={{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}}
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-| symbol            = [[File:Indian Election Symbol Chair.png|150px]]
+| symbol            = [[File:Chair (Indian Election Symbol).svg|150px]]
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+| website = {{URL|https://ourukd.in}}
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-The '''Uttarakhand Kranti Dal''' ([[translation]]: '''Uttarakhand Revolutionary Party'''; {{small|abbr.}} '''UKD'''), is a registered unrecognised regional [[political party]] in [[Uttarakhand]], [[India]]. It bills itself as the only regional party of the Uttarakhand in contrast to the national parties that dominate the state's politics.
+The '''Uttarakhand Kranti Dal''' ([[translation]]: '''Uttarakhand Revolutionary Party'''; {{small|abbr.}} '''UKD'''), is a registered unrecognised regional [[political party]] in [[Uttarakhand]], [[India]]. Founded in 1979, the party was built upon the aim of establishing a separate hill-state to combat administrative neglect and ensure [[sustainable development]] with respect to the sensitive ecology of the [[Himalayas|Himalayan region]]. Through the 80s and late 90s UKD became the principal leader of the [[Uttarakhand movement|Uttarakhand Statehood Movement]] and is credited by for bringing about the separation and creation of Uttarakhand  as the 27th state of India on 9 November 2000.
-In the present [[Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly]], elected in 2017, it does not have any member as compared with one member in the previous 2012, three members in 2007 and four members in 2002 assembly elections of the state.<ref>[[2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election]]</ref>
+In the present [[Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly]], elected in 2022, it did not have any member as compared with one member in the previous 2012, three members in 2007 and four members in 2002 assembly elections of the state.<ref>[[2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election]]</ref>
 ==History==
 {{main|Uttarakhand movement}}
-The UKD was established on 26 July 1979 by [[Bipin Chandra Tripathi]], Prof. [[Devi Datt Pant]], [[Indramani Badoni]]
+The UKD was established after an extended period of non-unified civil activism movements across Uttar the hilly districts of Uttar Pradesh on 26 July 1979 by [[Bipin Chandra Tripathi]], Prof. Devi Datt Pant, Indramani Badoni
-and [[Kashi Singh Airy]] at [[Nanital]] to fight for a separate state composed of the hill districts of [[Uttar Pradesh]]. The founding convention was chaired by Prof. Devi Datt Pant, former vice-chancellor of [[Kumaon University]]. Under the young leadership of Kashi Singh Airy who took the charge of struggle and public agitation and the aim was finally achieved, when the separate ''Uttaranchal'' state was formed on 9 November 2000, later renamed [[Uttarakhand]] in 2007. However, in the first-ever state assembly elections in 2002, the party won only four out of 70 seats and was outmaneuvered by the [[Indian National Congress]] and [[Bharatiya Janata Party]], both despite being latecomers to the Uttarakhand statehood movement, succeeded in capturing its momentum for electoral gain and formed governments in the state {{Citation needed|date=July 2009}}
+and [[Kashi Singh Airy]] at [[Nanital]].  The party was formed under the leadership of some of the major political forces within the region and aimed at promoting unified activism to struggle for a separate state composed of the hill districts of [[Uttar Pradesh]].
+The founding convention was chaired by Prof. Devi Datt Pant, former vice-chancellor of [[Kumaon University]]. Under the young leadership of Kashi Singh Airy who took the charge of struggle and public agitations.
+In 1988, Badoni did a 105-day foot march under the banner of Uttarakhand Kranti Dal. This procession ran from Tawaghat in [[Pithoragarh]] to [[Dehradun]]. He went from door to door in the village and told the people the benefits of a separate state. In 1992, he declared [[Gairsain]] the capital of [[Uttarakhand]] on the day of Makar Sankranti in Bageshwar.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lohani |first=Girish |date=2019-08-18 |title=Indramani Badoni Archives |url=https://kafaltree.com/tag/indramani-badoni/ |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=Kafal Tree |language=en-US}}</ref>
+The Uttarakhand Movement soon bore fruition after various cases of police administrative and police brutality in the later half of the movement, when the separate ''Uttaranchal'' state was formed on 9 November 2000 by the then BJP lead government. The change in state name to "Uttaranchal" garnered widespread criticism from UKD representatives and civilian activists for being an attempt at diluting the sacrifice of regional groups like the UKD.
+However, in the first-ever state assembly elections in 2002, the party won only four out of 70 seats and was outmaneuvered by the [[Indian National Congress]] and [[Bharatiya Janata Party]], both despite being latecomers to the Uttarakhand statehood movement, succeeded in capturing its momentum for electoral gain and formed governments in the state.{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}}
 ==Leadership==
-The party's current face is [[Kashi Singh Airy]], a prominent leader of the Uttarakhand statehood movement and a senior leader of Uttarakhand Kranti Dal, who was elected for [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]] three times (1985–1989, 1989–1991, 1993–1996) from [[Didihat (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)|Didihat]] and was elected for first [[Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly]]. The executive president of the party is [[Surendra Kukreti]]—senior statehood activists and prominent faces of Uttarakhand statehood movement who fought from the forefront in the creation of Uttarakhand state. [[Jaswant Singh Bisht]] was the first elected [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] of the party from [[Ranikhet (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)|Ranikhet]] constituency. Other personalities include late [[Indramani Badoni]], late [[Devi Datt Pant]], late [[Bipin Chandra Tripathi]] Shri [[Diwakar Bhatt]] who were among the founding members and long time agitators for the Uttarakhand statehood movement.
+The party's current face is [[Pooran Singh Kathait]], who is party's central President since 2023. Under his leadership, Uttarakhand Kranti Dal is fighting for the causes of natives of Uttarakhand. There are various other leaders like Sh. Kashi Singh Airy, a prominent leader of the Uttarakhand statehood movement and a senior leader of Uttarakhand Kranti Dal, who was elected for [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]] three times (1985–1989, 1989–1991, 1993–1996) from [[Didihat (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)|Didihat]] and was elected for first [[Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly]]. The executive president of the party is Harish Chandra Pathak—senior statehood activist and prominent face of Uttarakhand statehood movement who fought from the forefront in the creation of Uttarakhand state. Jaswant Singh Bisht was the first elected [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] of the party from [[Ranikhet (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)|Ranikhet]] constituency. Other personalities include [[Indramani Badoni]], Devi Datt Pant, [[Bipin Chandra Tripathi]] and [[Diwakar Bhatt]] who were among the founding members and long time agitators for the Uttarakhand statehood movement.
 == Factionalism and decline ==
 {{Main|3rd Uttarakhand Assembly}}
-In the [[2012 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election|2012 Uttarakhand Assembly election]], Uttarakhand Kranti Dal contested as '''Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (P)''' led by then party president [[Trivendra Singh Panwar]]. The original party name and the election symbol (chair) was frozen by the [[Election Commission of India]] following the factionalism and leadership dispute within the party that led to its breakup.
+In the [[2012 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election|2012 Uttarakhand Assembly election]], Uttarakhand Kranti Dal contested as '''Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (P)''' led by then party president Trivendra Singh Panwar. The original party name and the election symbol (chair) was frozen by the [[Election Commission of India]] following the factionalism and leadership dispute within the party that led to its breakup.
 The splinter group '''Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (D)''' led by former [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] and [[Uttarakhand Council of Ministers|Cabinet Minister]] in the [[First Khanduri ministry|Khanduri government]] and later [[Pokhriyal ministry|Pokhriyal government]], [[Diwakar Bhatt]] broke away from the UKD with his supporters claiming the original party leadership.
 [[Pritam Singh Panwar]] was the only winning candidate of the party in the 2012 Assembly election, who ran under the UKD(P) banner.
@@ Line 58: / Line 66: @@
 === Uttar Pradesh ===
 {{Main|Elections in Uttar Pradesh}}
+==== Legislative Assembly elections ====
+{{See also|Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly}}
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 |- style="text-align:center;"
-| [[1980 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1980]] || [[8th Uttar Pradesh Assembly|8th Vidhan Sabha]] || {{Composition bar|0|425|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}}
+| [[1985 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1985]] || [[9th Uttar Pradesh Assembly|9th Vidhan Sabha]] || [[Indramani Badoni]] || {{Composition bar|0|425|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || {{nochange}}
 |- style="text-align:center;"
-| [[1984 Indian general election|1984]] || [[8th Lok Sabha]] || rowspan="2"|[[Indramani Badoni]] || {{Composition bar|0|85|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}}
+| [[1989 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1989]] || [[10th Uttar Pradesh Assembly|10th Vidhan Sabha]] || rowspan="2"| [[Bipin Chandra Tripathi]] || {{Composition bar|1|425|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || {{increase}} 1 || {{no2|Opposition}}
 |- style="text-align:center;"
-| [[1985 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1985]] || [[9th Uttar Pradesh Assembly|9th Vidhan Sabha]] || {{Composition bar|0|425|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}}
+| [[1991 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1991]] || [[11th Uttar Pradesh Assembly|11th Vidhan Sabha]] || {{Composition bar|0|425|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || {{decrease}} 1 || –
 |- style="text-align:center;"
-| [[1989 Indian general election|1989]] || [[9th Lok Sabha]] || rowspan="4"|[[Bipin Chandra Tripathi]] || {{Composition bar|0|85|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}}
+| [[1993 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1993]] || [[12th Uttar Pradesh Assembly|12th Vidhan Sabha]] || rowspan="2"|[[Kashi Singh Airy]] || {{Composition bar|1|425|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || {{increase}} 1 || {{no2|Opposition}}
 |- style="text-align:center;"
-| [[1989 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1989]] || [[10th Uttar Pradesh Assembly|10th Vidhan Sabha]] || {{Composition bar|1|425|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || {{increase}} 1 || {{no2|Opposition}}
+| [[1996 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1996]] || [[13th Uttar Pradesh Assembly|13th Vidhan Sabha]] || {{Composition bar|0|425|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || {{decrease}} 1 || –
+|}
+==== Lok Sabha elections ====
+{{See also|Lok Sabha}}
+{| class="sortable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 2px #000000 solid; font-size: x-big; width="70%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="1"
+|- style="background-color:#336666; color:white"
+! Year !! Legislature !! Party leader !! Seats won !! Change in seats !! Outcome
 |- style="text-align:center;"
-| [[1991 Indian general election|1991]] || [[10th Lok Sabha]] || {{Composition bar|0|85|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || {{nochange}} || rowspan="2"| –
+| [[1980 Indian general election|1980]] || [[7th Lok Sabha]] || [[Devi Datt Pant]] || {{Composition bar|0|85|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || {{new}} || rowspan="7"| –
 |- style="text-align:center;"
-| [[1991 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1991]] || [[11th Uttar Pradesh Assembly|11th Vidhan Sabha]] || {{Composition bar|0|425|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || {{decrease}} 1
+| [[1984 Indian general election|1984]] || [[8th Lok Sabha]] || [[Indramani Badoni]] || {{Composition bar|0|85|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || rowspan="6"| {{nochange}}
 |- style="text-align:center;"
-| [[1993 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1993]] || [[12th Uttar Pradesh Assembly|12th Vidhan Sabha]] || rowspan="5"|[[Kashi Singh Airy]] || {{Composition bar|1|425|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || {{increase}} 1 || {{no2|Opposition}}
+| [[1989 Indian general election|1989]] || [[9th Lok Sabha]] || rowspan="2"|[[Bipin Chandra Tripathi]] || {{Composition bar|0|85|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}}
 |- style="text-align:center;"
-| [[1996 Indian general election|1996]] || [[11th Lok Sabha]] || {{Composition bar|0|85|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || {{nochange}} || rowspan="4"| –
+| [[1991 Indian general election|1991]] || [[10th Lok Sabha]] || {{Composition bar|0|85|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}}
 |- style="text-align:center;"
-| [[1996 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1996]] || [[13th Uttar Pradesh Assembly|13th Vidhan Sabha]] || {{Composition bar|0|425|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || {{decrease}} 1
+| [[1996 Indian general election|1996]] || [[11th Lok Sabha]] || rowspan="3"| [[Kashi Singh Airy]] || {{Composition bar|0|85|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}}
 |- style="text-align:center;"
-| [[1998 Indian general election|1998]] || [[12th Lok Sabha]] || {{Composition bar|0|85|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || rowspan="3"| {{nochange}}
+| [[1998 Indian general election|1998]] || [[12th Lok Sabha]] || {{Composition bar|0|85|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}}
 |- style="text-align:center;"
 | [[1999 Indian general election|1999]] || [[13th Lok Sabha]] || {{Composition bar|0|85|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}}
@@ Line 91: / Line 109: @@
 === Uttarakhand ===
 {{Main|Elections in Uttarakhand}}
+==== Legislative Assembly elections ====
+{{See also|Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly}}
 {| class="sortable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 2px #000000 solid; font-size: x-big; width="70%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="1"
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 ! Year !! Legislature !! Party leader !! Seats won !! Change in seats !! Outcome
 |- style="text-align:center;"
-| [[2002 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election|2002]] || [[1st Uttarakhand Assembly|1st Vidhan Sabha]] || rowspan="2"|[[Bipin Chandra Tripathi]] || {{Composition bar|4|70|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || {{increase}} 4 || {{no2|Opposition}}
+| [[2002 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election|2002]] || [[1st Uttarakhand Assembly|1st Vidhan Sabha]] || [[Bipin Chandra Tripathi]] || {{Composition bar|4|70|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || {{new}} 4 || {{no2|Opposition}}
 |- style="text-align:center;"
-| [[2004 Indian general election in Uttarakhand|2004]] || [[14th Lok Sabha]] || {{Composition bar|0|5|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || {{nochange}} || –
+| [[2007 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election|2007]] || [[2nd Uttarakhand Assembly|2nd Vidhan Sabha]] || [[Diwakar Bhatt]] || {{Composition bar|3|70|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || {{decrease}} 1 || {{yes2|Government with [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]}}
 |- style="text-align:center;"
-| [[2007 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election|2007]] || [[2nd Uttarakhand Assembly|2nd Vidhan Sabha]] || rowspan="2"|[[Diwakar Bhatt]] || {{Composition bar|3|70|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || {{decrease}} 1 || {{yes2|Government with [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]}}
+| [[2012 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election|2012]] || [[3rd Uttarakhand Assembly|3rd Vidhan Sabha]] || [[Trivendra Singh Panwar]] || {{Composition bar|1|70|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || {{decrease}} 2 || {{yes2|Government with [[Indian National Congress|INC]]}}
 |- style="text-align:center;"
-| [[2009 Indian general election in Uttarakhand|2009]] || [[15th Lok Sabha]] || {{Composition bar|0|5|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || {{nochange}} || –
+| [[2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election|2017]] || [[4th Uttarakhand Assembly|4th Vidhan Sabha]] || [[Kashi Singh Airy]] || {{Composition bar|0|70|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || {{decrease}} 1 || rowspan="2"| –
 |- style="text-align:center;"
-| [[2012 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election|2012]] || [[3rd Uttarakhand Assembly|3rd Vidhan Sabha]] || rowspan="2"|[[Trivendra Singh Panwar]] || {{Composition bar|1|70|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || {{decrease}} 2 || {{yes2|Government with [[Indian National Congress|INC]]}}
+| [[2022 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election|2022]]
+|| [[5th Uttarakhand Assembly|5th Vidhan Sabha]] || [[Diwakar Bhatt]] || {{Composition bar|0|70|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || {{nochange}}
+|}
+==== Lok Sabha elections ====
+{| class="sortable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 2px #000000 solid; font-size: x-big; width="70%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="1"
+|- style="background-color:#336666; color:white"
+! Year !! Legislature !! Party leader !! Seats won !! Change in seats !! Outcome
+|- style="text-align:center;"
+| [[2004 Indian general election in Uttarakhand|2004]] || [[14th Lok Sabha]] || [[Bipin Chandra Tripathi]] || {{Composition bar|0|5|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || {{new}} || rowspan="5"| –
 |- style="text-align:center;"
-| [[2014 Indian general election in Uttarakhand|2014]] || [[16th Lok Sabha]] || {{Composition bar|0|5|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || {{nochange}} || rowspan="3"| –
+| [[2009 Indian general election in Uttarakhand|2009]] || [[15th Lok Sabha]] || [[Diwakar Bhatt]] || {{Composition bar|0|5|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || rowspan="5"| {{nochange}}
 |- style="text-align:center;"
-| [[2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election|2017]] || [[4th Uttarakhand Assembly|4th Vidhan Sabha]] || rowspan="2"|[[Kashi Singh Airy]] || {{Composition bar|0|70|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || {{decrease}} 1
+| [[2014 Indian general election in Uttarakhand|2014]] || [[16th Lok Sabha]] || [[Trivendra Singh Panwar]] || {{Composition bar|0|5|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}}
 |- style="text-align:center;"
 | [[2019 Indian general election in Uttarakhand|2019]]
-|| [[17th Lok Sabha]] || {{Composition bar|0|5|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}} || {{nochange}}
+|| [[17th Lok Sabha]] || [[Kashi Singh Airy]] || {{Composition bar|0|5|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}}
 |- style="text-align:center;"
-| ''[[2022 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election|2022]]''
+| [[2024 Indian general election in Uttarakhand|2024]] || [[18th Lok Sabha]] || [[Diwakar Bhatt]] || {{Composition bar|0|5|{{party color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}}}
-|| ''[[Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly|5th Vidhan Sabha]]'' ||rowspan="2"| [[Diwakar Bhatt]] ||rowspan="2"| ''TBD'' ||rowspan="2"| ''TBD'' ||rowspan="2"| ''TBD''
-|- style="text-align:center;"
-| ''[[Next Indian general election|2024]]''
-|| ''[[Lok Sabha|18th Lok Sabha]]''
 |}
+== Legacy ==
+The party has taken on various campaigns in the past geared towards the social and economic upliftment of the Pahari people. The party has embraced a number of causes of concern to the diversity of people living in Uttarakhand, defining the Uttarakhandi identity in broad and inclusive terms. As such, its ideology of civic as opposed to ethnic nationalism can be compared to other centre-left nationalist parties like the [[Scottish National Party]] or the [[Plaid Cymru]], although its orientation and goals are emphatically [[Secession|non-secessionist]].
+The party has been among the most active campaigners of the bhu Kanoon Movement and campaigned heavily to ensure judicial justice in the Ankita Bhandari Murder case.
 == See also==
+{{Portal|Socialism|Politics|India|}}
 *[[Revolutionary Party]]
 *[[List of socialist parties]]
+*[[Bharatiya Janata Party, Uttarakhand]]
+*[[Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee]]
+* [[List of political parties in India]]
 ==References==
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 ==External links==
 *[https://ukdofficial.in Official Website of Uttarakhand Kranti Dal]
-*[http://www.ukd.prayaga.org A website established by UKD supporters].
+*[http://www.ukd.prayaga.org A website established by UKD supporters] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908041917/http://www.ukd.prayaga.org/ |date=8 September 2017 }}.
 *[http://www.merapahadforum.com/uttarakhand-at-a-glance/ukd-regional-party/ उत्तराखण्ड क्रान्ति दल का इतिहास]
 *[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9079295700345172271&q=bipin+tripathi&total=1&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 A video of UKD public meeting]
 *[http://uttarakhand.org/library Uttarakhand Solidarity Network Web Portal Library]
-*[http://www.allindoon.com/index.php/newsarticle?view=showelectionarticle&id=3216 allindoon.com]
+*[http://www.allindoon.com/index.php/newsarticle?view=showelectionarticle&id=3216 allindoon.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160213011212/http://www.allindoon.com/index.php/newsarticle?view=showelectionarticle&id=3216 |date=13 February 2016 }}
 *[http://legalassistanceforum.org/event/event18.html legalassistanceforum.org]
-*[http://www.lawcollegedehradun.com/debate_society.htm lawcollegedehradun.com]
+*[http://www.lawcollegedehradun.com/debate_society.htm lawcollegedehradun.com]{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
-*[http://www.garhwalpost.com/article/Dehradun/11063/1/print/ garhwalpost.com]
+*[http://www.garhwalpost.com/article/Dehradun/11063/1/print/ garhwalpost.com]{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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History[edit | edit source]

Leadership[edit | edit source]

Factionalism and decline[edit | edit source]

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Uttar Pradesh[edit | edit source]

Legislative Assembly elections[edit | edit source]

Lok Sabha elections[edit | edit source]

Uttarakhand[edit | edit source]

Legislative Assembly elections[edit | edit source]

Lok Sabha elections[edit | edit source]

Legacy[edit | edit source]

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