Bahujan Samaj Party (Ambedkar)
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Bahujan Samaj Party (Ambedkar), splinter-group of Bahujan Samaj Party in Punjab and Haryana, India. The party president was Devi Dass Nahar and the general secretary was Vijay Kumar Hans (later leader of Democratic Bharatiya Samaj Party). The party themselves claimed to have 100 000 party workers (a gross exaggeration).
In the legislative assembly elections in Punjab 2002 BSP(A) put upp 23 candidates, whom together mustered 20 260 votes.
BSP(A) reunified with BSP on 31 December 2003.
