The Nationalist Party ( my, အမျိုးသားပါတီ) 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 U Pu and U Ba Pe.

History

The party was a successor to the 21 Party led by U Ba Pe, which had emerged as the largest in the 1922 elections after winning 28 seats, but had not been able to form a government.Haruhiro Fukui (1985) ''Political parties of Asia and the Pacific'', Greenwood Press, pp150−151 The new party called for a reduction in Indian immigration to Burma and Indian landlords to be banned from owning land in Burma. In the 1925 elections the Nationalist Party won 25 seats; despite being the largest party, it was not able to form a government. In 1926 or 1927 the party merged with the Home Rule 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