Bharatiya Kranti Dal was a

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, founded by Chaudhary Charan Singh, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. The party was founded at a meeting in

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in October 1967. After the 1977 general election, the successor party of the BKD,

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was merged into the

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. E.M.S. Namboodiripad. ''The Communist Party in Kerala — Six Decades of Struggle and Advance''.

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: National Book Centre, 1994. p. 265-266 Charan Singh Portrait

The seeds for the formation of BKD were sown on 9 April 1967, when Humayun Kabir organised a meeting of all non-Congress Chief Ministers and other important leaders in

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. At

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session of BKD in November 1967, Mahamaya Prasad Sinha was elected as first chairman of the party.

List of chief ministers

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List of chief ministers

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