Democratic Socialist Party (Prabodh Chandra)
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in India
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. The party was formed in 1981 when H.N Bahuguna came out of the then Janata Party and took the lead in forming it.The party is almost completely limited to West Bengal
West Bengal
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. The party was formed when the Bengali socialists, who had been part of Janata Party
Janata Party
The Janata Party was an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the state of emergency imposed by the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her Indian National Congress...
, were divided in two in the beginning of the 1980s. The other faction became the West Bengal Socialist Party
West Bengal Socialist Party
West Bengal Socialist Party was a political party in the Indian state of West Bengal. WBSP was formed when the Bengali socialists in the then Janata Party split in the beginning of the 1980s . WBSP was a part of Left Front...
.
DSP is part of the Left Front
Left Front
The Left Front is an alliance of Indian leftist parties. After a 34-year reign in West Bengal, the Left Front was swept from power in the 2011 election...
in West Bengal
West Bengal
West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...
. The party leader Prabodh Chandra Sinha, was a Minister of Parliamentary Affairs in the state government. Sinha was elected to the state assembly in 2001 as an independent candidate from the constituency Egra
Egra
Egra is head quarters of Egra subdivision in Purba Medinipur district in the state of West Bengal, India. it is a town with a municipality and community development blocks.-Geography:...
. At that time DSP was not registered at the Election Commission of India
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. Now the party has once again registered, under the name Democratic Socialist Party (Prabodh Chandra).The party has influences in parts of East Midnapore and West Midnapore.
DSP has tried to contact the Socialist International
Socialist International
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, but have been denied membership on the grounds that they are a regional party.
DSP has won the Pingla (West Midnapore) constituency seat in the 2011 assembly poll in West Bengal as party's candidate Prof.Prabodh Sinha won the seat as Left Front candidate.Party's other candidate Prof. Hrishikesh Paria lost the Egra seat in East Midnapore. DSP has a zilla parishad seat in East Midnapore district. It has a municipal seat in the Egra municipality as of 2009 municipal polls. In 2010 Kolkata Municipal polls, the party was alloted 2 seats to contest as a LF partner.Candidates are Sri Nabin Kumar Mishra and Ms. Kakali Patra in Ward Nos. 45 & 72 respectively. It lost both of them. It has won a Zilla Parishad seat in East Midnapore in 2008 panchayet polls.
The party believes in the ideals of Jayaprakash Narain , Ram Manohar Lohia and Narendra Dev .
Prabodh Sinha has won the Pingla seat in 2011 but the party has lost the Egra seat.
Alliance : Left Front
Political ideology : Socialist,Left
Party Headquarters : 63, Ananda Palit Road , 1 st Floor, Kolkata-700 014
Now the formation of this Party is General Secretary - Professor Probodh Chandra Sinha
President - Sri Ratan Majumdar
VicePrecident - Professor Hrishikesh Paria , Ratan Agarwal
do - Professor Rampada Samanta
Another wing of this Party is Y.D.S.P(YOUTH FRONT)
Genarel Secretary -Sri Samir Bhattacharia
President -sri Subrata Sarangee