Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)

The BSP was formed in 1984 by Kanshi Ram who has remained party leader ever since. The party emerged from Kanshi Ram's earlier activity promoting the interests of Scheduled Caste government employees. Kanshi Ram was able to promote the organisation in the states of Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh. Although the BSP is recognised by the Election Commission as a national party it effectively functions on certain North Indian states only. It's ideology is based on the argument that the majority are oppressed by the select upper class. It aims to change this using the government power.

Mayawati and Kanshi Ram are the two key figures of the party.

The BSP first entered the election fray in 1984 but didnot do well. It started to rise in the post alliances era. While in power in 1995, the BSP was clouded in several controversies.

It still has risen with it's limited following based on the cast credentials.It's single point program is the upliftment of dalits.

List of BSP candidates for Lok Sabha Election 2009
S.No	State Name	Constituency Name	Candidate Name
1	Uttar Pradesh	Sultanpur	Mohammad Tahir
2	Chandigarh	Chandigarh	Harmohan Dhawan
3	Gujarat	Kachchh	Mohan Namori
4	Gujarat	Amreli	Usha Patel
5	Gujarat	Valsad	Chagan Patel
6	Gujarat	Anand	Mukesh Patel
7	Gujarat	Ahmedabad East	Bhavesh Bhatt
8	Gujarat	Panchmahal	Prakash Barot
9	Gujarat	Banaskantha	Suresh Mali
10	Gujarat	Navsari	Samarnath Singh
11	Gujarat	Sabarkantha	Vikramsingh Ramalavat
12	Gujarat	Ahmedabad (west)	Pravin Solanki
13	Gujarat	Rajkot	Dalichand Patel
14	Gujarat	Porbandar	Mehul Chandrawadia
15	Gujarat	Dahod	Ramsingh Kalara
16	Gujarat	Kheda	Ratansingh Chauhan
17	Gujarat	Chhota Udaipur	Prakash Bhil
18	Gujarat	Mahesana	Rudratsingh Jhala
19	Gujarat	Bardoli	Ranjana Gamit
20	Gujarat	Patan	Mehboob Kokhar
21	Haryana	Ambala	Chaudhary Chandrapal
22	Haryana	Gurgaon	Zakir Hussain
23	Haryana	Hisar	Ram Dayal Goyal
24	Haryana	Sonipat	Devraj Deewan
25	Haryana	Bhiwani - Mahendragarh	Thakur Vikram Singh
26	Haryana	Rohtak	Raj Kumar Sharma
27	Haryana	Karnal	Ratha Virendra Sharma
28	Haryana	Sirsa	Rajesh Vaid
29	Haryana	Kurukshetra	Guru Dayal Singh Saini
30	Haryana	Faridabad	Chetan Sharma
31	Himachal Pradesh	Kangra	S N Pathania
32	Himachal Pradesh	Mandi	Lala Ram Sharma
33	Himachal Pradesh	Hamirpur	Mela Ram Sharma
34	Karnataka	Bangalore Rural	Mohammed Hafizulla Sharief
35	Karnataka	Bangalore Central	Vijaya Bhaskar
36	Karnataka	Bangalore South	Naheeda Salma
37	Karnataka	Chikkballapur	Laxminarayan
38	Karnataka	Belgaum	R S Patil
39	Karnataka	Bidar	Jagannath Jamadar
40	Karnataka	Kolar	N Muniswamy
41	Karnataka	Tumkur	Ashok
42	Karnataka	Shimoga	J. Jayappa
43	Karnataka	Koppal	Shivaputrappa Gumageri
44	Karnataka	Bellary	T Nagendra
45	Karnataka	Chitradurga	M Jayanna
46	Karnataka	Raichur	Shivakumar Naik Korvi
47	Karnataka	Gulbarga	Mahadev B Dhani
48	Karnataka	Chamarajanagar	N Mahesh
49	Karnataka	Hassan	A.P. Ahmed
50	Karnataka	Mysore	Syed Nizam Ali
51	Karnataka	Dakshina Kannada	Girish Rai
52	Karnataka	Bijapur	Sudhakar Kanamadi
53	Karnataka	Udupi Chikamagalur	Steven J Menezes
54	Karnataka	Haveri	Basavanthappa Gonnemmanavar
55	Karnataka	Mandya	Krishnamurthy
56	Kerala	Ernakulam	Dr Sherrif Mohammed
57	Kerala	Palakkad	V Chandran
58	Kerala	Thrissur	Joshy Tharakan
59	Kerala	Mavelikkara	Dr Mohan
60	Kerala	Chalakudy	Muttom Abdullah
61	Kerala	Wayanad	Rajeev Joseph
62	Kerala	Idukki	Biju M John.
63	Kerala	Alappuzha	K S Prasad
64	Kerala	Pathanamthitta	K K Nair
65	Kerala	Kollam	Jayyanandhan
66	Kerala	Attingal	J Sudhakaran
67	Kerala	Thiruvananthapuram	Dr Neelalohithadasan Nadar
68	Kerala	Alathur	Dr Sidevan
69	Madhya Pradesh	Khargone	D R Barde
70	Madhya Pradesh	Shahdol	Manohar Singh Marawi
71	Madhya Pradesh	Khandwa	Vamanrao Sasane
72	Madhya Pradesh	Balaghat	Ajab Lal Shastri
73	Madhya Pradesh	Sagar	Shailesh Kumar Verma
74	Madhya Pradesh	Indore	Abdul Latif Khan
75	Madhya Pradesh	Dhar	Ajay Rawat
76	Madhya Pradesh	Damoh	Vaijynath Patel
77	Madhya Pradesh	Ratlam	Mahendra Singh Mandloi
78	Madhya Pradesh	Dewas	Bhagirath Parihar
79	Madhya Pradesh	Rajgarh	Ramaprasad Dangi
80	NC Territory of Delhi	North West Delhi	Rakesh Hansh
81	NC Territory of Delhi	East Delhi	Hazi Yunush
82	NC Territory of Delhi	North East Delhi	Hazi Dilshad
83	NC Territory of Delhi	South Delhi	Kanwar Singh Tanwar
84	NC Territory of Delhi	New Delhi	Trilok Chand Sharma
85	NC Territory of Delhi	Chandni Chowk	Hazi Mustaqeem alias Ballo
86	NC Territory of Delhi	West Delhi	Deepak Bharadwaj
87	Tamil Nadu	Chennai Central	Yuniskhan
88	Tamil Nadu	Chennai South	Dr Sridharan
89	Tamil Nadu	Ramanathapuram	Allapichai E
90	Tamil Nadu	Coimbatore	Ramasubramanian
91	Tamil Nadu	Salem	Er Balasubramanian
92	Tamil Nadu	Madurai	N Darbar Raja
93	Tamil Nadu	Mayiladuthurai	Saptharishi
94	Tamil Nadu	Karur	Dharmalingam
95	Tamil Nadu	Dindigul	Srinivas Babu
96	Tamil Nadu	Virudhunagar	Kanakaraj I A S
97	Tamil Nadu	Chidambaram	Rajendran
98	Tamil Nadu	Sivaganga	M G Thevar
99	Tamil Nadu	Arakkonam	Prof Mary John
100	Tamil Nadu	Dharmapuri	Dr Purushothaman
101	Tamil Nadu	Theni	Ilayaraja
102	Tamil Nadu	Kallakurichi	Senthil Kumar
103	Tamil Nadu	Arani	Shankar
104	Tamil Nadu	Tiruvallur	Adv Anandan
105	Tamil Nadu	Kanniyakumari	P Sivakami I A S
106	Tamil Nadu	Vellore	Mansur
107	Tamil Nadu	Tiruchirappalli	Kalyanasundaram
108	Tamil Nadu	Sriperumbudur	B Rajappa
109	Uttar Pradesh	Mainpuri	Vinay Shakya
110	Uttar Pradesh	Sambhal	Dr Shafik-ur-rehma Barq
111	Uttar Pradesh	Varanasi	Mukhtar Ansari
112	Uttar Pradesh	Mohanlaganj	Jai Prakash Rawat
113	Uttar Pradesh	Hathras	Rajendra Kumar
114	Uttar Pradesh	Unnao	Arun Kumar Shukla
115	Uttar Pradesh	Muzaffarnagar	Kadir Rana
116	Uttar Pradesh	Lucknow	Akhilesh Das
117	Uttar Pradesh	Aonla	Kunwar Sarvraj Singh
118	Uttar Pradesh	Shahjahanpur	Sunita Singh
119	Uttar Pradesh	Mathura	Pt Shyam Sundar Sharma
120	Uttar Pradesh	Mirzapur	Anil Kumar Maurya
121	Uttar Pradesh	Raebareli	RS Kushwaha
122	Uttar Pradesh	Moradabad	Rajiv Channa
123	Uttar Pradesh	Aligarh	Rajkumari Chauhan
124	Uttar Pradesh	Sitapur	Kaiser Jahan
125	Uttar Pradesh	Etah	Devendra Singh Yadav
126	Uttar Pradesh	Saharanpur	Jagdish Singh Rana
127	Uttar Pradesh	Agra	Kunwar Singh Vakil
128	Uttar Pradesh	Robertsganj	Ram Chandra Tyagi
129	Uttar Pradesh	Gorakhpur	Vinay Shankar Tiwari
130	Uttar Pradesh	Salempur	Ram Shankar Rajbhar
131	Uttar Pradesh	Pilibhit	Buddhsen Verma
132	Uttar Pradesh	Ballia	Sangram Singh Yadav
133	Uttar Pradesh	Barabanki	Kamla Prasad Rawat
134	Uttar Pradesh	Azamgarh	Akbar Ahmed Dumpy
135	Uttar Pradesh	Banda	Gorakhnath Pandey
136	Uttar Pradesh	Banda	Bhairon Prasad Mishra
137	Uttar Pradesh	Phulpur	Kapilmuni Karwaria
138	Uttar Pradesh	Domariyaganj	Mohammad Mukeem
139	Uttar Pradesh	Farrukhabad	Naresh Chandra Agarwal
140	Uttar Pradesh	Etawah	Gauri Shankar
141	Uttar Pradesh	Chandauli	Kailash Nath Singh Yadav
142	Uttar Pradesh	Ghosi	Dara Singh Chauhan
143	Uttar Pradesh	Ghazipur	Afzal Ansari
144	Uttar Pradesh	Bijnor	Shahid Siddiqui
145	Uttar Pradesh	Fatehpur	Mahesh Prasad Nishad
146	Uttar Pradesh	Firozabad	SP Singh Baghel
147	Uttar Pradesh	Hamirpur	Vijay Bahadur Singh
148	Uttar Pradesh	Deoria	Gorakh Prasad Jaiswal
149	Uttar Pradesh	Hardoi	Dr Ramkumar Kureel
150	Uttar Pradesh	Baghpat	Mukesh Sharma
151	Uttar Pradesh	Jalaun	Tilak Chandr Ahirwar
152	Uttar Pradesh	Jhansi	Pundit Ramesh Kumar Sharma
153	Uttar Pradesh	Kanpur	Sukhda Mishra
154	Uttar Pradesh	Kairana	Tabassum Beg
155	Uttar Pradesh	Machhlishahr	Kamla Kant Gautam
156	Uttar Pradesh	Amroha	Maudud Madni
157	Uttar Pradesh	Rampur	Ghanshyam Singh Lodhi
158	Uttar Pradesh	Kannauj	Mahesh Chandra Verma
159	Uttar Pradesh	Kheri	Iliyas Azmi
160	Uttar Pradesh	Bulandshahr	Rajkumar Gautam
161	Uttar Pradesh	Nagina	Ram Kishan Singh
162	Uttar Pradesh	Kaushambi	Girish Chandra Pasi
163	Uttar Pradesh	Ghaziabad	Amarpal Sharma
164	Uttar Pradesh	Gautam Budhha Nagar	Surendra Singh Nagar
165	Uttar Pradesh	Khusi Nagar	Swami Prasad Maurya
166	Uttar Pradesh	Shrawasti	Rizwan Zaheer
167	Uttar Pradesh	Fatehpur Sikri	Seema Upadhyay
168	Uttar Pradesh	Badaun	Dp Yadav
169	Uttar Pradesh	Amethi	Ashish Shukla
170	Uttar Pradesh	Sultanpur	Mohammad Tahir
171	Uttar Pradesh	Pratapgarh	Shivkant Ojha
172	Uttar Pradesh	Allahabad	Ashok Kumar Bajpai
173	Uttar Pradesh	Faizabad	Vimlendra Mohan Pratap Mishra
174	Uttar Pradesh	Ambedkar Nagar	Rakesh Pandey
175	Uttar Pradesh	Kaiserganj	Surendra Nath Awasthi
176	Uttar Pradesh	Basti	Arvind Chowdhury
177	Uttar Pradesh	Jaunpur	Dhananjay SIngh
178	Uttar Pradesh	Bareilly	Islam Sabir Ansari
179	Uttar Pradesh	Bansgaon	Srinath Advocate
180	Uttar Pradesh	Maharajganj	Ganesh Shankar Pandey
181	Uttar Pradesh	Misrikh	Ashok Rawat
182	Uttar Pradesh	Meerut	Maluk Nagar