Lok Bhalai Party (LBP) is a defunct
India
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...
n regional political party active mainly in
Punjab
Punjab (; ; also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb) is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern Pakistan and no ...
. It was founded by former Union Minister
Balwant Singh Ramoowalia
Balwant Singh Ramoowalia (born 15 March 1942) is an Indian politician from Samajwadi Party. His father Karnail Singh Paras was a well-known Kavishar.
Balwant Singh started his political career with student politics as a general secretary of S ...
in 1999. It merged into
Akali Dal
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) (translation: ''Supreme Eternal Party'') is a Centre-right politics, centre-right Sikhism, Sikh-centric state political party in Punjab, India, Punjab, India. The party is the second-oldest in India, after Indian ...
(Badal) in November 2011.
Lok Bhalai Party merges with Akali Dal in Punjab
/ref> Later it was relaunched in July 2018.
Objectives
The party mainly focused in the issues related to Punjabis migrating to other countries. In that respect, in that respect it took up causes of people duped by travel agents
A travel agency is a private retailer or public service that provides travel and tourism-related services to the general public on behalf of accommodation or travel suppliers to offer different kinds of travelling packages for each destinatio ...
, issues related to wedding of Punjabi girls with Non-resident Indian
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See also
* Political parties of India
* Politics of India
The Politics and Government of India works within the framework of the country's Constitution, which was adopted in 1950. India is a parliamentary secular democratic republic, described as a “sovereign, socialist, secular democratic republ ...
* Dalit Kisan Dal
References
External links
B.S. Ramoowalia
Defunct political parties in Punjab, India
1999 establishments in Punjab, India
Political parties established in 1999
Political parties disestablished in 2011
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