Jharkhand Party

The Jharkhand Party (JP) is one of the oldest political parties in India. formed on 5 March 1949 by Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh Munda in Ranchi. The party grew out of the demand for a separate Jharkhand state.

Jharkhand Party
AbbreviationJP
LeaderShri Ajit Kumar
PresidentShri Enos Ekka
General SecretaryShri Ashok Kumar Bhagat
TreasurerRizwan Ahmad
FounderJaipal Singh Munda
Founded5 March 1949
HeadquartersRanchi, Jharkhand
ECI StatusRegistered
Number of states and union territories in governmentJharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal
Website
jharkhandparty.org

The Jharkhand Party participated in the Bihar Legislative Assembly elections of 1952, 1957, and 1962. For more than 15 years, the Jharkhand Party was the only major opposition political party against the Indian National Congress in Bihar. In 1955, the Jharkhand Party submitted a memorandum for the creation of a separate state of Jharkhand to the States Reorganization Commission, but the state was not created for linguistic and economic reasons.

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