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Bahujan Samaj Party
BSP · 1984– · India · Dalit Emancipatory · Electoral party · coding confidence medium
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Core principles
Political power for the historically oppressed castes as the precondition of their social emancipation, in Ambedkar's tradition.
Economic model
Reservation enforcement, land distribution to Dalits, welfare targeting.
Organisation of powers
Formed state governments in India's largest state four times, within ordinary electoral politics.
Reading note
An ascriptive mobilising base attached to a universalist constitutional claim, which pulls its membership coding to the middle.
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EC · Economic organisation · scored −03
Coded −3: reservation enforcement and land distribution rather than structural economic change.
- Programme textThe party's programme centres on implementation of existing constitutional guarantees.
CU · Social and cultural order · scored −06
Coded −6: annihilation of caste in Ambedkar's tradition.
- Programme textThe party takes its doctrine directly from Ambedkar's writings.
AU · Organisation of power · scored −01
Coded −1: four state governments in India's largest state, all by election.
- Documented act or statuteFormed governments in Uttar Pradesh in 1995, 1997, 2002 and 2007.
SC · Scale of decision · scored +02
Coded +2: state power used to enforce national constitutional guarantees.
- Documented act or statuteReservation enforcement operates through state administration under central law.
ID · Rule of membership · scored +03
Coded +3: an ascriptive mobilising base attached to a universalist constitutional claim.
- Programme textBahujan means the majority made up of the oppressed, framed as a coalition rather than a caste.
CH · Method and tempo · scored −04
Coded −4: electoral throughout.
- Documented act or statuteFounded in 1984 and has contested every election since without any armed wing.
Where it came from, and what came after
- takes its doctrine fromAmbedkarism
The party takes its doctrine directly from his writings and its name from his category.
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