Bahujan Kisan Dal
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Bahujan Kisan Dal (Majority Peasants Party) is a political party in India. The party was founded ahead of the Lok Sabha elections 2004 as the politiska branch of Bharatiya Kisan Union (Indian Peasants Union). BKD is led by Rakesh Tikait and the party president is the former Uttar Pradesh govenor Romesh Bhandari.
Rakesh Tikair is the son of the BKU leader Chaudhary Mahinder Singh Tikait.
In the Lok Sabha elections 2004 BKD put up nine candidates, all from Uttar Pradesh.
BKD supported the candidature of Ram Jethmalani in Lucknow as the countercandidate against PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
External links
- BKD election result 2004 (http://www.eci.gov.in/GE2004/pollupd/parties/BKDcontest.htm)
- The kulak and his perplexing politics (http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/may062004/iv2.asp), article in Deccan Herald