Bahujan Kisan Dal is a political party

Political party

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 in India

India

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. The party was founded ahead of the Lok Sabha

Lok Sabha

The Lok Sabha or House of the People is the lower house of the Parliament of India. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by direct election under universal adult suffrage. As of 2009, there have been fifteen Lok Sabhas elected by the people of India...

 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

Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...

 governor Romesh Bhandari

Romesh Bhandari

Romesh Bhandari is a former Indian Foreign Secretary, former Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and former governor of Tripura, Goa and Uttar Pradesh.-Career:...

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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

Lucknow

Lucknow is the capital city of Uttar Pradesh in India. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of Lucknow District and Lucknow Division....

 as the countercandidate against PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Atal Bihari Vajpayee is an Indian statesman who served as the tenth Prime Minister of India three times – first for a brief term of 13 days in 1996, and then for two terms from 1998 to 2004. After his first brief period as Prime Minister in 1996, Vajpayee headed a coalition government from...

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External links

• BKD election result 2004
• The kulak and his perplexing politics, article in Deccan Herald