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Democratic Socialist Party | |
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| Secretary | Hrishikesh Paria |
| Founder | Prabodh Chandra Sinha |
| Founded | 17 July 1981 (44 years ago) (1981-07-17) |
| Headquarters | 63, Ananda Palit Road,Kolkata,West Bengal,India-700014 |
| Ideology | Democratic socialism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| Colours | Red |
| ECI Status | State Party[1] |
| Alliance | Left Front (1982-2017) |
| Seats in Lok Sabha | 0 |
| Seats in West Bengal Legislative Assembly | 0 / 294 |
Democratic Socialist Party is aDemocratic Socialistpolitical party inIndia. The party was formed in 1981 when H.N Bahuguna came out of the then Janata Party and took the lead in forming it.The party is almost completely limited toWest Bengal. The party was formed when the Bengalisocialists, who had been part ofJanata Party, were divided in two in the beginning of the 1980s. The other faction became theWest Bengal Socialist Party.
DSP is part of theLeft Front inWest Bengal. The party leader Prabodh Chandra Sinha, was a Minister of Parliamentary Affairs in the state government. Sinha was elected to the state assembly in 2001 as an independent candidate from theEgra constituency. At that time DSP was not registered with theElection Commission of India. Now the party has once again registered, under the nameDemocratic Socialist Party (Prabodh Chandra).The party has influence in parts of East Midnapore and West Midnapore.
DSP has tried to contact theSocialist International, but have been denied membership on the grounds that they are a regional party.
DSP won thePingla constituency seat in the 2011 assembly poll in West Bengal as party's candidate Prof. Prabodh Sinha won the seat as Left Front candidate. The party's other candidate Prof. Hrishikesh Paria lost the Egra seat in East Midnapore. DSP has a zilla parishad seat in East Midnapore district. It has a municipal seat in the Egra municipality as of 2009 municipal polls. In 2010 Kolkata Municipal polls, the party was allotted 2 seats to contest as a LF partner in Ward Nos. 45 & 72 respectively. It lost both of them. It has won a Zilla Parishad seat in East Midnapore in 2008 panchayet polls.The party believes in the ideals of Jayaprakash Narain, Ram Manohar Lohia and Narendra Dev .
Prabodh Sinha has won the Pingla seat in 2011 but the party has lost the Egra seat.