Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | RRP |
| President | Swaroopanand Saraswati (1950s) |
| Founder | Swami Karpatri |
| Founded | 1948 |
| Dissolved | 1971 |
| Merged into | Bhartiya Jana Sangh |
| Ideology | Hindutva Hindu Nationalism Anti-Hindu Code Bill |
| Political position | Far-Right |
| ECI Status | Registered Unrecognized Political Party (RUPP) (disputed) |
| Election symbol | |
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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 1948.[1] The RRP won three Lok Sabha seats in the 1952 elections to the national Parliament and two in 1962.[2] 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.[3] The party eventually merged into the Jana Sangh, the precursor to the Bharatiya Janata Party.[3] The election symbol of the party was the rising sun.[4] In the 1950s, Swaroopanand Saraswati was its president.[5]
Electoral performance[edit | edit source]
Lok Sabha[edit | edit source]
| Year | Legislature | Party leader | Seats won | Seats changed | Percentage
(of votes) |
Votes swing | Popular votes | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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[edit | edit source]
Many modern media reports falsely attribute Hanwant Singh as the founder of the this party,[6][7][8] but it was actually founded by Swami Karpatri in 1948.[9][10]
Bibliography[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Kumar, Sajjan (4 August 2020). "The conservative challenge to Hindutva". The Hindu. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
- ↑ "Biographical sketches of Third Lok Sabha". National Informatics Centre, Government of India. Archived from the original on 19 May 2006. Retrieved 14 August 2006.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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.
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