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'''Bihar People's Party''' was a [[political party]] in the [[India]]n state of [[Bihar]], founded in 1993 by former leader of the [[Samajwadi Krantikari Sena]] and former [[Janata Dal]] MLA, [[Anand Mohan Singh]].

{{Short description|Former Indian political party}}

Singh's wife, [[Lovely Anand]], won a by-election to the [[Lok Sabha]] (the [[lower house]] of the [[Parliament of India]]) from the north Bihar constituency of [[Vaishali (Lok Sabha constituency)|Vaishali]] in 1994 by defeating veteran leader Kishori Sinha, wife of Bihar stalwart and former Chief Minister Satyendra Narain Sinha.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article/pinned-lynch/235751 |work=Outlook |agency=PTI |title=Pinned Lynch |first=Smita |last=Gupta |date=15 October 2007 |accessdate=2015-06-07}}</ref> The party then fielded around 100 candidates in the [[1995 Bihar Legislative Assembly election|1995 state assembly elections]], with Anand Mohan Singh himself standing and losing in three separate constituencies.<ref name="tehelka">{{cite news|title=Law’s Arm: 13 Years Long |first=Anand |last=St Das |work=Tehelka |url=http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main34.asp?filename=Ne201007LAW.asp |date=20 October 2007 |accessdate=2015-06-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610131126/http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main34.asp?filename=Ne201007LAW.asp |archivedate=10 June 2015 |df=dmy }}</ref>

BPP then joined with the [[Samata Party]] and Singh was elected to the Lok Sabha as a candidate of that party in 1996,<ref>{{cite news |title='I will highlight Laloo's misrule of Bihar in Parliament.' Samata Party's Anand Mohan Singh doesn't conceal his 'commitment' to the gun |first=Farzand |last=Ahmed |date=15 July 1996 |url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/samata-party-anand-mohan-singh-plans-to-highlight-laloo-jungle-raj/1/283700.html |accessdate=2015-06-07 |work=India Today}}</ref> then as an All India Rashtriya Janata Party candidate in 1998.<ref>{{cite news |work=Frontline |volume=15 |issue=6 |date=21 March 1998 |url=http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl1506/15060380.htm |title=Messages from the States |accessdate=2015-06-07}}</ref> In 1999 BPP contested the Lok Sabha polls in alliance with the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] and the [[Janata Dal (United)]].<ref>[http://frontlineonnet.com/fl1625/16250360.htm Sharp polarisation in Bihar] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018052312/http://frontlineonnet.com/fl1625/16250360.htm |date=18 October 2007 }}</ref>

The party contested the 2000 Bihar legislative election in alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party and the [[Jharkhand People's Party]].<ref>[http://www.rediff.com/news/2000/jan/20tara.htm Rediff On The NeT: Laloo will get 7 seats in south Bihar: govt survey]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2000/02/06/stories/02060001.htm |title=The Hindu: Cong(I), RJD hoodwinking people, says JD(U) |access-date=5 January 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070808081115/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2000/02/06/stories/02060001.htm |archive-date=8 August 2007 |url-status=usurped }}</ref> The party won two seats, contesting as independents.<ref>[http://frontlineonnet.com/fl1706/17060040.htm The Bihar Transition] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018202533/http://frontlineonnet.com/fl1706/17060040.htm |date=18 October 2007 }}</ref>

BPP merged with the [[Indian National Congress]] party in February 2004.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/2004/02/29/stories/2004022903760800.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040404070049/http://www.hindu.com/2004/02/29/stories/2004022903760800.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 April 2004 |title=Bihar People's Party merges with Congress |date=29 February 2004 |work=[[The Hindu]] |accessdate=2015-06-07}}</ref>

==References==
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==See also==
*[[List of massacres in Bihar]]

[[Category:Defunct political parties in Bihar]]
[[Category:Political parties in India]]
[[Category:Janata Parivar]]
[[Category:Janata Dal]]
[[Category:1993 establishments in Bihar]]
[[Category:Political parties established in 1993]]

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