The Home Rule Party ( my, ဟုမ္မရူးပါတီ) was a political party in
Burma
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...
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 ( my, မြန်မာအသင်းချုပ်ကြီး; ''Myanma Ahthinchokgyi''), was a political party in Burma.
History
The GCBA was for ...
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 of the National Congress, that sought greater self-government and ...
to form the
People's Party.
[Fukui, p145]
References
{{Burmese political parties
Defunct political parties in Myanmar