Bharatiya Kisan Kamgar Party

Bharatiya Kisan Kamgar Party
AbbreviationBKKP
FounderAjit Singh
Founded1996; 28 years ago (1996)
Dissolved1999
Merged intoRashtriya Lok Dal

Bharatiya Kisan Kamgar Party (abbr. BKKP) was an Indian political party formed in 1996 by Ajit Singh.[1][2] Within months of winning Baghpat Lok Sabha constituency from Congress ticket in 1996 Lok Sabha election, Ajit Singh resigned from Congress to form his new party BKKP, with the help of Mahendra Singh Tikait.[3] He contested Baghpat by-poll election on BKKP ticket and won by a margin of 231,440 votes.[4] In 1999, he relaunched his party with the name of Rashtriya Lok Dal.[5]

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