Purvanchal Vikas Party is a political party

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 founded ahead of the 2004 Lok Sabha election

Indian general election, 2004

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 in the India

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n state of Punjab

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PVP emerged as a group representing migrant labourers from the Hindi belt

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 region in and around the city of Ludhiana. Amongst other issues, PVP intended to construct a 'Purvanchal Bhavan' (Eastern Building) for migrant labourers. The convenor of the party (until a regular conference was held) was T.R. Misra.

In the 2007 assembly

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 election in Uttar Pradesh

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, PVP launched only one candidate, Ashiquazzaman in Gorakhpur

Gorakhpur

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. Ashiquazzaman got 104 votes (0.11% of the votes in the constituency).