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Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) was once one of the most powerful political parties in Uttar Pradesh but now it is going through its worst phase. The situation is such that in the year 2026, BSP will be completely out of the country’s Parliament for the first time. BSP does not have a single member in the Lok Sabha and now the tenure of the only MP in the Rajya Sabha, Ramji Gautam, is also about to end.
Ten MPs from Uttar Pradesh are retiring from Rajya Sabha in November 2026. Of these, eight Bharatiya Janata Party and one Rajya Sabha MP each from SP and BSP will retire. Among these, the names of BJP MPs Brijlal, Seema Dwivedi, Dinesh Sharma, Neeraj Shekhar, Chandraprabha, Hardeep Singh Puri, Arun Singh and BL Verma are. At the same time, the tenure of SP’s Ram Gopal Yadav and BSP’s Ramji Gautam is also ending.
Let us tell you that BSP was founded by Kanshi Ram on 16 April 1984. Within a few years of its establishment, the voice of BSP started resonating from Parliament to Legislative Assemblies. But now this will be the first time when BSP’s vote in Parliament, the temple of democracy in the country, will be reduced to zero.
BSP’s voice will be lost in Parliament
Ramji Gautam is the only BSP MP left in Rajya Sabha. Who went to elections in the year 2019 with the support of BJP. After six years, his tenure as MP will end in November next year. After which, along with the Lok Sabha, BSP’s position in the Rajya Sabha will also become zero.
In such a situation, this will be the first time after 36 years that there will not be a single member speaking for BSP from both the Houses of Parliament. Looking at the equation of Rajya Sabha elections, it is not possible for BSP to get even a single seat in next year’s elections. BSP has only one MLA. Whereas according to the equations, support of 37 MLAs is necessary for one Rajya Sabha seat.
BSP is going through its worst phase
Bahujan Samaj Party was formed in the year 1984, after which BSP progressed rapidly and became the largest political party of Dalits. BSP not only became strong as a regional party but its stature in national politics had also become quite strong. In 2009, BSP won 21 Lok Sabha seats with 6.17% vote share and emerged as the third largest party at the national level.
In 2014, amid the Narendra Modi wave, BSP did not win a single Lok Sabha seat but the party secured 4.19% votes. In 2019, BSP-SP contested the elections in alliance and BSP won ten seats. But after a few days BSP broke the alliance.
By 2024, BSP continued to decline and the party’s vote share fell to 2.07% and could not win even a single seat. At the same time, the situation of BSP in UP Assembly is also very bad. In 2022, only one MLA of BSP could win the election. Last year, BSP also came to a position of zero in the Legislative Council because the tenure of the party’s only MLC Bhim Rao Ambedkar also ended.