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1961 Elections In India
Legislative Assembly elections Orissa , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center;" ! class="unsortable" , ! Political Party !! Flag !! Seats Contested !! Won !! Net Change in seats !! % of Seats ! Votes !! Vote % !! Change in vote % , - style="background: #90EE90;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Indian National Congress , , 140 , , 82 , , 26 , , 58.57 , , 12,69,000 , , 43.28 , , 5.02 , - , , style="text-align:left;" , All India Ganatantra Parishad , , 121 , , 37 , , 14 , , 26.42 , , 6,55,099 , , 27.23 , , 1.51 , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Praja Socialist Party , , 43 , , 10 , , 1 , , 7.14 , , 3,22,305 , , 30.43 , , 20.03 , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Communist Party of India , , 35 , , 4 , , 5 , , 3.57 , , 2,33,971 , , 27.32 , , 18.92 , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Jharkhand Party , , 9 , , 0 , , "New" , , 0 , , 25,602 , , 13.57 , , "New" , - , , , 187 , , 7 , , 6 , , 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first modern Nationalism, nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa. From the late 19th century, and especially after 1920, under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, the Congress became the principal leader of the Indian independence movement. The Congress led India to independence from the United Kingdom, and significantly influenced other Decolonization, anti-colonial nationalist movements in the British Empire. The INC is a "big tent" party that has been described as sitting on the Centrism, centre of the Indian politics, Indian political spectrum. The party held its first session in 1885 in Mumbai, Bombay where Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee, W.C. Bonnerjee presided over it. After Indian independence in 1947, Congress eme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All India Ganatantra Parishad
The Ganatanra Parishad (GP) or the All India Ganatantra Parishad (AIGP) was a regional political party based in Orissa state in eastern India from 1950 to 1962. This political party was formed by the former rulers of the erstwhile princely states and big landlords. It was founded in 1950 and Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo became its president. In 1962, after the parliamentary election, this political party was merged with the Orissa unit of the Swatantra Party. Background The roots of this party can be traced to the Koshal Utkal Praja Parishad founded in October, 1948 with its headquarters at Sambalpur. The first meeting of the Praja Parishad was held on 8, 9 and 10 October 1948 at Balibandha in Sambalpur. In the annual meeting of the Praja Parishad at Bolangir in October, 1950 it was transformed into a full-fledged political party, the Ganatantra Parishad. Performance in the elections In the first general election in 1951, the GP won 0.91% of the total votes and 6 seats ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Praja Socialist Party
The Praja Socialist Party, abbreviated as PSP, was an Indian political party. It was founded in 1952 when the Socialist Party, led by Jayaprakash Narayan, Rambriksh Benipuri, Acharya Narendra Deva and Basawon Singh (Sinha), merged with the Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party led by J. B. Kripalani (former president of the Indian National Congress and a close associate of Jawaharlal Nehru). The PSP led the cabinet under Pattom A. Thanu Pillai as chief minister of State of Travancore-Cochin from March 1954 to February 1955. In 1955 a faction led by Ram Manohar Lohia broke from the party, reusing the name "Socialist Party". The PSP again came to power in the new state of Kerala under Pattom A. Thanu Pillai from February 1960 to September 1962. In 1960, Kripalani left the party and in 1964, Asoka Mehta joined Congress after his expulsion from the party. Another section of the party, led by the trade union leader George Fernandes, broke off to join the Samyukta Socialist Party in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party Of India
The Communist Party of India (CPI) is a political party in India. The CPI considers the Foundation of the Communist Party of India, December 26, 1925 Cawnpore (Kanpur) conference as its foundation date. Between 1946 and 1951, the CPI led militant struggles such as the Telangana Rebellion, peasant revolt in Telangana, organising guerrilla warfare against feudal lords. The CPI was the main opposition party in India during the 1950s to 1960s. In 1964, 1964 split in the Communist Party of India, a split in the CPI led to the formation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which eventually emerged as the larger of the two parties. CPI supported the rule of Indira Gandhi, but later changed course and embraced left unity. CPI was part of the ruling United Front (India, 1996), United Front government from 1996 to 1998 and had two ministers under Deve Gowda ministry, Devegowda and Gujral ministry, Gujral Ministry. Currently, the CPI has two members in Lok Sabha and two members ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jharkhand Party
The Jharkhand Party (JKP) is one of the oldest political parties in India. formed on 5 March 1949 by ''Marang Gomke'' Jaipal Singh Munda in Ranchi. The party grew out of the demand for a separate Jharkhand state. The Jharkhand Party participated in the Bihar Legislative Assembly elections of 1952, 1957, and 1962. For more than 15 years, the Jharkhand Party was the only major opposition political party against the Indian National Congress in Bihar. In 1955, the Jharkhand Party submitted a memorandum for the creation of a separate state of Jharkhand to the States Reorganization Commission, but the state was not created for linguistic and economic reasons. History Formation The sociopolitical movement that emerged in the early 19th century to address tribal issues in the lower Chotanagpur region gave rise to several tribal rights organizations, predominantly led by educated Christian tribals. One of the earliest was the ''Chotanagpur Unnati Samaj'', founded in 1915 by Rev. Joe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Elections In India
Legislative Assembly elections Orissa , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center;" ! class="unsortable" , ! Political Party !! Flag !! Seats Contested !! Won !! Net Change in seats !! % of Seats ! Votes !! Vote % !! Change in vote % , - style="background: #90EE90;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Indian National Congress , , 140 , , 82 , , 26 , , 58.57 , , 12,69,000 , , 43.28 , , 5.02 , - , , style="text-align:left;" , All India Ganatantra Parishad , , 121 , , 37 , , 14 , , 26.42 , , 6,55,099 , , 27.23 , , 1.51 , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Praja Socialist Party , , 43 , , 10 , , 1 , , 7.14 , , 3,22,305 , , 30.43 , , 20.03 , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Communist Party of India , , 35 , , 4 , , 5 , , 3.57 , , 2,33,971 , , 27.32 , , 18.92 , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Jharkhand Party , , 9 , , 0 , , "New" , , 0 , , 25,602 , , 13.57 , , "New" , - , , , 187 , , 7 , , 6 , , 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Elections In Asia
Events January * January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union. * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti enters the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Cemal Gürsel f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 In India
Events in the year 1961 in the Republic of India. Incumbents * President of India – Rajendra Prasad * Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru * Vice President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan * Chief Justice of India – Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha Governors * Andhra Pradesh – Bhim Sen Sachar * Assam – Vishnu Sahay (until 13 January), Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh (starting 13 January) * Bihar – Zakir Hussain * Gujarat – Mehdi Nawaz Jung * Karnataka – Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar * Kerala – V. V. Giri * Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar * Maharashtra – Sri Prakasa * Odisha – Yeshwant Narayan Sukthankar * Punjab – Narahar Vishnu Gadgil * Rajasthan – Gurumukh Nihal Singh * Uttar Pradesh – Burgula Ramakrishna Rao * West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu Events * National income - 186,821 million * 20 January – Queen Elizabeth II start of Royal visit. * 5 February - Cachar Gana Sangram Parishad formed against imposition of Assamese langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
