The Home Rule Party () was a political party in

Burma Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and ha ...

in the 1920s led by Tharrawaddy U Pu.

History

The party was formed as a breakaway from the

General Council of Burmese Associations The General Council of Burmese Associations (GCBA), also known as the Great Burma Organisation (; ''Myanma Ahthinchokgyi''), was a political party in Burma. History The GCBA was formed at the 1920 conference of the Young Men's Buddhist Associat ...

prior to the 1925 elections due to the GCBA continuing its calls for an electoral boycott. The elections saw the new party win 11 of the 80 seats.Haruhiro Fukui (1985) ''Political parties of Asia and the Pacific'', Greenwood Press, p153 In 1926 or 1927 the party merged with the Nationalist Party and the

Swaraj Party The Swaraj Party, established as the Congress-Khilafat Swaraj Party, was a political party formed in India on 1 January 1923 after the Gaya annual conference in December 1922. Chauri Chaura The Swaraj Party was formed on 1 January 1923 by Indi ...

to form the People's Party.Fukui, p145

References

{{Burmese political parties Defunct political parties in Myanmar