Samajwadi Party (SP), roughly translated as the Socialist Party, is a regional political party of India. Its mass base is primarily in the state of Uttar Pradesh, though it also has considerable presence in states such as Karnataka, Bihar, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh.
Its political position is Centrist, and it operates on the political ideologies of Democratic Socialism, Populism and Social Conservatism. The SP asserts its complete allegiance and political struggle to the socially oppressed sections of the society, who live on the margins of mainstream life in Uttar Pradesh. In other words, claiming to be a democratic socialist party, the Samajwadi Party speaks for the upliftment and economic progress of the minorities, especially the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and the Muslims. The party also functions on the guiding principles of Secularism, and fights against all communal forces.
Formed in October 1992 in Lucknow by the veteran leader and party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav, the SP was one of the many political factions to split from the parent organization Janata Dal. The Samajwadi Party abides in the footsteps of the progressive thinker, writer and great Parliamentarian Ram Manohar Lohia, who is considered a guiding light for the workings of the SP. Lohia’s democratic outlook and appeal for indulging in grassroot-level politics, his Gandhian principles of non-violent demonstrations and Satyagraha, and his belief in ending all forms of capitalist and feudalisti
Samajwadi Party (SP), roughly translated as the Socialist Party, is a regional political party of In
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