The Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh (

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: Bhāripa Bahujana Mahāsaṅgha; BBM) was an Indian political party founded by Prakash Ambedkar on 4 July 1994. The party was a splinter group of the

Republican Party of India The Republican Party of India (RPI, often called the Republican Party or simply Republican) is a political party in India. It has its roots in the Scheduled Castes Federation led by B. R. Ambedkar. The 'Training School for Entrance to Poli ...

and had its roots in the

Scheduled Castes Federation The Republican Party of India (RPI, often called the Republican Party or simply Republican) is a political party in India. It has its roots in the Scheduled Castes Federation led by B. R. Ambedkar. The 'Training School for Entrance to Polit ...

led by B. R. Ambedkar. The president of the party was Prakash Ambedkar. The complete name of the party is Bharatiya Republican Paksha - Bahujan Mahasangh (

- Majority Grand Union). BBM was primarily based in

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. In 2019, BBM merged into the

Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi The Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi (translation: Deprived Majority Front; VBA) is an Indian political party founded by Prakash Ambedkar on 20 March 2018. The party is primarily based in Maharashtra state. History and background On 1 January 20 ...

, new political party founded by Prakash Ambedkar.

History

The party was formed on 4 July 1994, through a split in the

. The party was led by Prakash Ambedkar, the grandson of B. R. Ambedkar. In the elections to the

state assembly 1999 BBM put up 34 candidates. In the

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elections during 1999, Ambedkar was elected from the constituency

Akola Akola () is a municipal corporation and the third largest city in Vidarbha after Nagpur and Amravati and tenth largest city in Maharashtra. is located about east of the state capital, Mumbai, and west of the second capital, Nagpur. A ...

. In the

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election 2004 the party lost its parliamentary representation. In total the party had launched 16 candidates, all from

. In Akola, Ambedkar was defeated by a

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(BJP) candidate. BBM totalled 606,827 votes, and won three seats. In

2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election The Indian state of Maharashtra has a bicameral legislature, comprising two houses. The lower house, known as the Legislative Assembly ("Vidhan Sabha" in Marathi), is directly elected by the people and is the more powerful of the two houses. The ...

Baliram Sirskar Baliram Bhagwan Sirskar is a member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.He represents the Balapur Assembly Constituency. He belongs to the BJP. Before he was in Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi The Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi (translation: Dep ...

won from Balapur in Akola on Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh ticket by a margin of 6939 votes. On 20 March 2018, Prakash Ambedkar founded new political party named the

. On 14 March 2019, Ambedkar has announced the Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh will merge with the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi. He said that, despite the 'Akola pattern' of social engineering through the success of the Bharipa-Bahujan Mahasangh, the word 'Bharipa' (RPI) had limited the expansion of the party. He said that after the Lok Sabha elections 2019, the Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh will merge with the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi, because the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi is acceptable in a broad sense. On 8 November 2019, the Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangha merged into the

Electoral Performance

Lok Sabha Elections

Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha Elections

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