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Indian political party

Political party in India

Praja Socialist Party

Leader	Jayaprakash Narayan Rambriksh Benipuri Surendranath Dwivedy Srinibas Mishra Acharya Narendra Deva Basawon Singh (Sinha) Shyam Sunder Das Yugal Kishore Pathak Hariprasad C. J. B. Kripalani
Founded	September 1952; 73 years ago (1952-09)
Dissolved	1972
Merged into	Samyukta Socialist Party (Fraction)
Succeeded by	Socialist Party^[1]
Headquarters	18, Windsor Place,New Delhi^[2]
Ideology	Socialism
Political position	Left-wing^[3]
International affiliation	Asian Socialist Conference
ECI Status	Dissolved
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ThePraja Socialist Party, abbreviated asPSP, was an Indianpolitical party that was active between 1952 and 1972.^[4] It was founded in 1952 when theSocialist Party, led byJayaprakash Narayan,Rambriksh Benipuri,Acharya Narendra Deva andBasawon Singh (Sinha), merged with theKisan Mazdoor Praja Party led byJ. B. Kripalani (former president of theIndian National Congress and a close associate ofJawaharlal Nehru).

The PSP led the cabinet underPattom A. Thanu Pillai as chief minister of theState of Travancore-Cochin from March 1954 to February 1955. In 1955 a faction led byRam Manohar Lohia broke from the party, reusing the name "Socialist Party".^[5] The PSP again came to power in the new state ofKerala under Pattom A. Thanu Pillai from February 1960 to September 1962. In 1960, Kripalani left the party and in 1964,Asoka Mehta joined Congress after his expulsion from the party.

Another section of the party, led by thetrade union leaderGeorge Fernandes, broke off to join theSamyukta Socialist Party in 1967. In 1972, a section merged with Fernandes's party to become the Socialist Party once more, before becoming part of theJanata coalition in 1977 following theproclamation of Emergency by Indira Gandhi.^[5]

Formation

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In September 1952, theKisan Mazdoor Praja Party merged with theSocialist Party withJ. B. Kriplani as the chairman andAsoka Mehta as the general secretary.^[6]

Elections

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At the party's firstgeneral election in 1957, the PSP won 10.41% of the total votes and 19 seats in theLok Sabha.^[7] However, the party's vote share continued to decline over the next few elections. It won 6.81% of the total votes and 12 seats in theLok Sabha in 1962,^[8] 3.06% of the total votes and 13 seats in the Lok Sabha in 1967^[9] and only 1.04% of the total votes and only 2 seats in the Lok Sabha in 1971.^[6]^[10]

References

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^Verinder Grover (1997).Political Parties and Party System. Deep & Deep Publications. pp. 228–231.ISBN 978-81-7100-878-0.
^Braunthal, Julius (ed).Yearbook of the International Socialist Labour Movement. Vol. II. London: Lincolns-Prager International Yearbook Pub. Co, 1960. p. 38
^Singh, Mahendra Prasad (1981).Split in a Predominant Party: The Indian National Congress in 1969. Abhinav publications. p. 69.ISBN 9788170171409. Retrieved18 July 2024.The support for the decision was more solid among the left-wing parties; in addition to the Communist Party of India(CPI), Communist Party of India-Marxist(CPI-M), Samyukta Socialist Party(SSP), and Praja Socialist Party(PSP)...
^Lewis P. Fickett Jr. (September 1973). "The Praja Socialist Party of India—1952–1972: A Final Assessment".Asian Survey.13 (9):826–832.doi:10.2307/2642762.JSTOR 2642762.
^^a ^b"Glossary of Organisations: So".Marxists Internet Archive. Retrieved26 May 2024.
^^a ^bChandra, Bipan & others (2000).India after Independence 1947–2000, Neu Delhi:Penguin Books,ISBN 0-14-027825-7, pp. 201–2
^"Statistical Report on General Elections, 1957 to the Second Lok Sabha, Volume I"(PDF). Election Commission of India website. p. 37. Retrieved10 March 2010.
^"Statistical Report on General Elections, 1962 to the Third Lok Sabha, Volume I"(PDF). Election Commission of India website. p. 56. Retrieved10 March 2010.
^"Statistical Report on General Elections, 1967 to the Fourth Lok Sabha, Volume I"(PDF). Election Commission of India website. p. 75. Retrieved10 March 2010.
^"Statistical Report on General Elections, 1971 to the Fifth Lok Sabha, Volume I"(PDF). Election Commission of India website. p. 76. Retrieved10 March 2010.