Bharatiya Kranti Dal (lit. 'Indian Revolution Party') was a political party in India, founded by Chaudhary Charan Singh, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. The party was founded at a meeting in Lucknow in October 1967.Wallace, Paul. India: The Dispersion of Political Power Paul Wallace, in Asian Survey, Vol. 8, No. 2, A Survey of Asia in 1967: Part II. (Feb., 1968), pp. 87-96. After the 1977 general election, the successor party of the BKD, Bharatiya Lok Dal was merged into the Janata Party.E.M.S. Namboodiripad. The Communist Party in Kerala — Six Decades of Struggle and Advance. New Delhi: National Book Centre, 1994. p. 265-266
The seeds for the formation of BKD were sown on 9 April 1967, when Humayun Kabir organised a meeting of all non-Congress Chief Ministers of India and other important leaders in Delhi. At Indore session of BKD in November 1967, Mahamaya Prasad Sinha was elected as first chairman of the party.
List of chief ministers
Name State Term start Term end Charan Singh Uttar Pradesh 3 April 1967 25 February 1968 Charan Singh Uttar Pradesh 18 February 1970 1 October 1970
See also Indian National Congress breakaway parties
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