Uttarakhand Kranti Dal
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| Leader | President: Trivendra Singh Panwar Other Leaders:Diwakar Bhatt,(Cabinet Minister), Kashi Singh Aire, Pritam Panwar (Ex-MLA), Dr. Narayan Singh Jantwal (ex president) Om Gopal Rawat(MLA), Pushpesh Tripathi(MLA,) B.D. Raturi(V.P. B.G.V.P.), Virendra Kuksal (Senior Rajya Andolankari), Capt.L.S. Chufal,D.N.Todaria, jagdish Budhani, Hem Rawat, Pratap Sahi, Mahesh Parihar, Bhuwan chandra Joshi, Subhash Pandey, Trivendra Panwaras, Ashok kumar Sidhu ,Mujib Naithani,Vijay panwar (Kaku),Pankaj Bhatt,mahender Rawat,kanta prasad raturi rajkumar Saini,Pitra sharan Joshi,shakti shel kaparwan ,Avtar singh Rana, Satish Semwal ,Dinesh Badola,khushbir Chauhan, Parvati kantura(Block Pramukh,Narender Nagar)Vjay sajwan,Jai Prakash shah (Block Pramukh Kirtinagar)Manvender Singh ( Sabhasad Tehri)puran Singh Bhandari Vijay Rana ,Gajender Negi,Pramila Rawat,Beena Bahuguna,Kamala Godiyal, Sudarshan Negi,Himanshu Garg,Hemant Dang,Pritam Barthwan (folk Singer)Gajender Rana,Ved Vyas Dr. K.N. Lakhera,Adv. Bhupender Sharma,Uttam Bhandari EX- Prez Garhwal Univ. ,Anil Kala Ex-Prez Garhwal Univ., Piyush Pokhriyal,Dinesh Joshi,Pawel Mamgainjabbar Singh Pawel,Arvind Nautiyal |
| Founded | 1979 |
| Ideology | Regionalist/Populist, center-left |
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The Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (हिन्दी- उत्तराखण्ड क्रान्ति दल) (UKD) is a regional political party in India. It bills itself as the only regional party of the Uttarakhand Himalayas, in contrast to the national parties that dominate the region's politics.
In the present Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly, elected in 2007, it has three members, who supported the BJP government, when the 2007 state elections resulted in a hung assembly.
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[edit] History
The UKD was established on 26 July 1979 to fight for a separate state composed of the hill districts of Uttar Pradesh. The founding convention was chaired by Dr. D.D. Pant, former vice-chancellor of Kumaun University. After years of struggle and public agitation, the aim was finally achieved, when the separate Uttaranchal state was formed on November 9, 2000, later renamed Uttarakhand. However, in the first ever state assembly elections in 2002, the party won only 4 out of 70 seats, and was outmaneuvered by the Indian National Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), both despite being late comers to the separate state movement, succeeded in capturing its momentum for electoral gain and formed governments in the state[citation needed]
As of yet, the UKD has not been able to achieve its ostensible goal in establishing a viable "third force" in Uttarakhand politics due to splits and divisions within its ranks. However, it maintains friendly relations with left parties in the state such as the Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist), and other minor Uttarakhand parties and social movements.
The party has taken on various campaigns in the past geared towards the social and economic uplift of highlanders. The party has however embraced a number of causes of concern to the diversity of peoples living in Uttarakhand, defining the Uttarakhandi identity in broad and inclusive terms. As such, its ideology of civic as opposed to ethnic regionalism can be compared to other centre-left nationalist parties like the Scottish National Party or Plaid Cymru, although its orientation and goals are emphatically non-secessionist.
[edit] Leaders
The party’s face is Diwakar Bhatt, who is Cabinet Minister of Uttarakhand in Coalition Government of UKD and BJP, with portfolios of Urban Development and Food & Civil Supplies
The current president of the party is Trivendra Singh Panwar, vice president Sri Bhuwan Chandra Joshi other leaders are Mrs.Beena Bahuguna who is known as senior Rajya Andolankari who fought from the forefront in the creation of Uttrakhand state. Mr. Kashi Singh Airy, who was elected for Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha three times (1985–1989, 1989–1991, 1993–1996) and was elected for first Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha and had remained president of UKD,[1] presently Chairman, HILTRON, late Sri Jaswant singh Bisht was the first elected MLA from Ranikhet constituncy, Mr. Diwakar Bhatt, who is presently cabinet Minister for the state of Uttrakhand. Other personalities include the late Indramani Badoni, late Bipin Chandra Tripathi, kashi singh Yeri founder members and long time agitators for the separate state movement. The new formation and adding new forces with MLA Omgopal Rawat many new leaders are coming Like Mujib Naithani, the young dinamic, cooperative, optimistic and yet having good relations with all party leaders, because he says we are here for the development of people of uttarakhand and the leaders of other parties are first uttarakhandi.Vijay Panwar urf Kaku Bhai in Tehri, sudharshan Negi from Pauri,Piyush pokhriyal From Kirti Nagar,satish Semwal from Gopeshwar. Technically now leadership change will have to work hard with hardworking youth politicians.
[edit] Present
At the February 2007 state elections, the party won 3 of the 70 seats, but because neither the Congress nor the BJP received a majority, the UKD took an important role in forming the next government as it chose to support the BJP, which was much closer to having a majority compared to the Congress Party, and the BJP formed the government in March 2007 [2][3]
[edit] Members of 2007 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
| Constituency No | Constituency | Elected Member |
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| 7 | Deoprayag | Diwakar Bhatt |
| 8 | Narendra Nagar | Om Gopal |
| 45 | Dwarahat | Puspesh Tripathi |
[edit] References
- ^ Kashi Singh Airi Indian Express, Wednesday, July 15, 1998.
- ^ Uttarakhand Kranti Dal finally makes the cut Indian Express, March 28, 2007.
- ^ Khanduri to be new Uttarakhand CM Rediff.com, March 1, 2007.
[edit] External links
- Web site established by UKD supporters.
- उत्तराखण्ड क्रान्ति दल का इतिहास.
- [2] A video of public meeting of ukd
- Uttarakhand Solidarity Network Web Portal Library with district maps and election results
