Krishikar Lok Party
Krishikar Lok Party (Peasants People's Party) was a political party in the Hyderabad State, India, which existed from April to June 1951. The KLP was formed when Acharya N. G. Ranga separated from the Hyderabad State Praja Party.
Krishikar Lok Party | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | KLP |
| Leader | Acharya N. G. Ranga |
| Founder | Acharya N. G. Ranga |
| Founded | April 1951 |
| Dissolved | June 1959 |
| Merged into | Indian National Congress |
| Headquarters | Hyderabad, India |
| Ideology | Peasant politics |
| Lok Sabha (1951) | 1 |
| Madras Legislative Assembly (1952) | 15 |
KLP contested 1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election and won 15 seats. In 1959, N. G. Ranga, along with C. Rajagopalachari, broke away from the Congress party and established the Swatantra Party due to their dissatisfaction with Nehru's increasingly socialist policies, including the implementation of land reforms and cooperative farming processes. Ranga assumed the role of its first president of the Swatantra Party.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.