Welfare Party of India is an Indian Political party, Welfare Party of India to contest polls, striving for what it deems "value-based politics" in India.
Its first National President was Mujtaba Farooq, and other key leaders were Syed Qasim Rasool Ilyas, Ilyas Azmi, Zafarul Islam Khan, Maulana Abdul Wahab Khilji and Lalita Naik.
It works across India with state and district level committees.
History
WPI founded in 2011 under leadership of Syed Qasim Rasool Ilyas in Delhi. Party condemned
demonetization by the
Government of India
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.
Known branches
The Welfare Party of Kerala is the
Kerala
Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...
unit of the Welfare Party of India. It was launched on 19 October 2011 at Tagore Hall,
Kozhikode
Kozhikode (), also known in English as Calicut, is a city along the Malabar Coast in the state of Kerala in India. It has a corporation limit population of 609,224 and a metropolitan population of more than 2 million, making it the second la ...
.
The organization argues for comprehensive land reform. Several struggles and seminars were organized by the landless people of Kerala.
It has a students' wing called
Fraternity Movement.
See also
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Fraternity Movement
References
External links
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Political parties established in 2011
2011 establishments in India