President - Kumari Mayawati
Symbol - Elephant

The BSP was founded by the high-profile charismatic leader Kanshi Ram in 1984. The party's political symbol is an elephant. In the 13th Lok Sabha (1999-2004) it had 14 (out of 545) members, in the 14th Lok Sabha it hed17 and currently in the 15th Lok Sabha has 21. The party has its main base in Uttar Pradesh of Indian state

On 2007 the Uttar Pradesh state assembly electionresults made BSP the first single majority party since 1991. After 15 years of hung assembly, BSP won a clear majority in India's most populated state. The BSP President Kumari Mayawati began as the new Chief Minister of UP for the fourth term. She took the oath on 13 May, 2007 at Rajbhawan in the state capital Lucknow.

Manifesto

Highlights of Mayawati’s promises and achievements:

• their economic policies are not prepared
  for removing the hardship of the general public
• constituted a separate
  welfare department for every segment of that society
• selecting
  under the “Dr.Ambedkar Rural Development Scheme” villages with
  preponderance of the Dalit population in particular has decided to
  cover them with every kind of essential amenities
• Urban Integrated Development Scheme
• under a “Sarvjan Hitay
  urban Slum Area Ownership right Scheme” has decided to give ownership
  right to residential plots measuring a maximum of 30sq. meters and
  minimum of 15sq. meters and commercial plots for employment measuring
  a maximum of 10 sq. meters
• provided scholarship to the poor children from the Other Backward
  Classes (OBCs) and religious minorities, particularly Muslims
• send students of the newly established
  Gautam Buddha University in Gautam Buddha Nagar district (Great Noida)
  at government expense to Europe or other foreign countries for higher
  education
• separate provision of 25 per cent fund has been
  made for the first time in the budget for SC/ST
• for creating a sense of
  security among the Bahujan Samaj people a provision of “reservation”
  has been made for the first time in the country for police station
  officers
• by including the economically backward people in
  the Muslim society in the list of the backward classes, our party’s
  government has for the first time in the state made available to them
  the benefit of reservation in education and state level government
  jobs
• cleared the backlog of the “reserved
  quota” vacancies for the people of the Scheduled Castes/Tribes and
  Other Backward Classes in government jobs and other areas at the state
  level which had not been filled up for years
• securing the
  benefit of “Reservation” for the Scheduled Castes/Tribes and Other
  Backward Classes in the areas like the judiciary, council of
  ministers, Rajya Sabha, Legislative Council and the private sector
• congress party and BJP and their
  allies have been trying to end reservation gradually by giving to the
  Private Sector on a large scale those “government departments” and
  “institutions” in the Centre and all the states of the country
• B.S.P. government is the only one in the entire country which has
  ensured a guarantee for maintaining the earlier available reservation
  system even after a “government department” and “institution” is
  handed over to the private sector
• party is in favour of providing
  separate reservation to the poor people of this class on an economic
  basis
• our party’s government has always been fully
  sensitive and serious over the issue of social security
• instead of giving unemployment allowance
  to the youths is giving them an opportunity to live with dignity,
  self-respect and self-reliance by making provision for permanent
  employment
• our government has granted
  “inheritance right” to unmarried daughters from the Sarva Samaj in the
  property of their father
• “Mahamaya garib Balika
  Ashirvad Yojana” (Mahamaya Scheme of blessings for poor girls). After the launching of this
  scheme, the birth of a girl child instead of being viewed as a burden
  will strengthen a tendency to view it as a welcome event
• Savitri Bai Phule
  Balika Shiksha Madad Yojana” (Savitri Bai Phule Scheme of assistance
  for education of girls)
• full honour and respect to many Sants, Gurus and great men born
  in the Bahujan Samaj
• create in the
  entire country an atmosphere free from “injustice, crime and fear” by
  establishing a “Rule of Law by Lawful Means”
• wean them away from the path of Naxalism
• our party will pay full attention towards terrorism also
• Better National Rural Employment Guarantee
• our party wants growth of capital and not
  development of capitalists in the country
• every “Economic Policy” of our country will be designed to
  bendfit the general public and not make the rich richer and the poor
  poorer

Head Office

16, Gurudwara Rakabganj Road,
New Delhi – 110001.