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The '''Kamgar Kisan Paksha''' ('Worker Peasant Party') was a [[political party]] in [[Bombay State]], [[India]]. The party was formed by a group of dissidents from the [[Peasants and Workers Party of India]] in November 1951, just before the 1951-1952 elections.<ref name="Institute2004">{{cite book|author=V.V. Giri National Labour Institute|title=Agrarian structure, movements & peasant organisations in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UuJFAAAAYAAJ|year=2004|publisher=V.V. Giri National Labour Institute|isbn=978-81-7827-064-7|page=171}}</ref><ref name="JaffrelotKumar2012">{{cite book|author1=Christophe Jaffrelot|author2=Sanjay Kumar|title=Rise of the Plebeians?: The Changing Face of the Indian Legislative Assemblies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tDN0MinxMigC&pg=PT226|date=4 May 2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-51661-0|page=226}}</ref> The founders of Kamgar Kisan Paksha wanted closer cooperation with the [[Communist Party of India]].<ref name="JaffrelotKumar2012"/><ref name="ProjectFisher1956">{{cite book|author1=Indian Press Digests Project|author2=Margaret Welpley Fisher|author3=Joan Valérie Bondurant|title=The Indian experience with democratic elections|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fBG2AAAAIAAJ|year=1956|publisher=Institute of International Studies, University of California|page=112}}</ref> Its main leaders were [[Nana Patil]], Datta Deshmukh and D.S. Wagh (popularly known as 'Kakasaheb Wagh').<ref name="Sadasivan1977">{{cite book|author=S. N. Sadasivan|title=Party and democracy in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJ2KAAAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Tata McGraw-Hill|page=96}}</ref>

The party fielded three candidates in the [[1951 Indian general election|1951-1952 Lok Sabha election]], whom together obtained 132,574 votes (1.15% of the votes in Bombay State). None of its Lok Sabha candidates were elected.<ref name="e1">Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1951/VOL_1_51_LS.PDF STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1951 TO THE FIRST LOK SABHA] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008191615/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1951/VOL_1_51_LS.PDF |date=2014-10-08 }}''</ref> Navsherwanji Naorojaji Satha finished in second place in the Ahmednagar South constituency, with 67,239 votes (43.09% of the votes in the constituency). Gambhirrao Avachitrao Chavan finished in third place in the Bhuswal constituency, with 38,450 votes (17.5%). Gopal Ganesh Saundarkar finished in third place in the Nasik Central constituency, with 26,885 votes (13.10%).<ref name="e1"/>

The party fielded 33 candidates in the 1952 Bombay State legislative assembly election, whom together obtained 248,130 votes (2.23% of the votes in the state).<ref name="e2">Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/StatReport_51_BOMBAY.pdf KEY HIGHLIGHTS OF GENERAL ELECTION, 1951 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF BOMBAY]''</ref> Deshmukh won one of the two seats from the Akola Sangamner constituency and Patil won the Satara East seat.<ref name="e2"/> The election symbol of the party was a bicycle. However, the Greater Bombay area the party contested as part of a joint front with the Communist Party and the Left Socialist Group. The election symbol for this joint front was a railway engine.<ref name="Lal1978">{{cite book|author=Shiv Lal|title=Elections in India: An Introduction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MEcmAAAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Election Archives|page=47}}</ref>

Soon the party was split on the issue of the relation with the Communist Party.<ref name="Sadasivan1977"/> The tendency led by Patil and Wagh ended up merging itself into the Communist Party of India.<ref name="Sadasivan1977"/><ref name="Ram1996">{{cite book|author=D. Sundar Ram|title=Readings in the Indian Parliamentary Opposition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ZyKAAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Kanishka Publishers, Distributors|isbn=978-81-7391-116-3|page=370}}</ref> A sector, led by Deshmukh and supported by the ''Navajivan'' faction (a group expelled from the Communist Party in 1942, which the Peasants and Workers Party had admitted ''en bloc'' in 1951), regrouped as the Lal Nishan Gat (Red Flag Group).<ref name="Sadasivan1977"/> The Deshmukh group would later be known as the [[Lal Nishan Party]].<ref name="Institute2004"/>

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Kamgar Kisan Paksha - Revision history

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