Uttarakhand Kranti Dal

Regional political party of Uttarakhand

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Indian political party

Uttarakhand Kranti Dal

Abbreviation| UKD
Leader| Pooran Singh Kathait
President| Pooran Singh Kathait
Founder| Devi Datt Pant
Indramani Badoni
Kashi Singh Airy
Diwakar Bhatt
Surendra Kukreti
Founded| 26 July 1979 (45 years ago) (1979-07-26)
Headquarters| Kranti Bhavan, 10 Court Road, Dehradun-248001, Uttarakhand
Ideology| Regionalism
Protectionism
Civic nationalism
Democratic socialism
Secularism
Political position| Center-left
Colours|   Myrtle green
ECI Status| Registered Unrecognised Party
Seats in Lok Sabha|

0 / 5

Seats in Rajya Sabha|

0 / 3

Seats in Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly|

0 / 70

Election symbol
Website
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The Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (translation: Uttarakhand Revolutionary Party; abbr. UKD), is a registered unrecognised regional political party in Uttarakhand, India. Founded in 1979, the party was built upon the aim of establishing a separate hill-state to combat administrative neglect and ensure sustainable development with respect to the sensitive ecology of the Himalayan region. Through the 80s and late 90s UKD became the principal leader of the Uttarakhand Statehood Movement and is credited by for bringing about the separation and creation of Uttarakhand as the 27th state of India on 9 November 2000.

In the present Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly, elected in 2022, it did not have any member as compared with one member in the previous 2012, three members in 2007 and four members in 2002 assembly elections of the state.[1]

## History

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Main article: Uttarakhand movement

The UKD was established after an extended period of non-unified civil activism movements across Uttar the hilly districts of Uttar Pradesh on 26 July 1979 by Bipin Chandra Tripathi, Prof. Devi Datt Pant, Indramani Badoni and Kashi Singh Airy at Nanital. The party was formed under the leadership of some of the major political forces within the region and aimed at promoting unified activism to struggle for a separate state composed of the hill districts of Uttar Pradesh.

The founding convention was chaired by Prof. Devi Datt Pant, former vice-chancellor of Kumaon University. Under the young leadership of Kashi Singh Airy who took the charge of struggle and public agitations.

In 1988, Badoni did a 105-day foot march under the banner of Uttarakhand Kranti Dal. This procession ran from Tawaghat in Pithoragarh to Dehradun. He went from door to door in the village and told the people the benefits of a separate state. In 1992, he declared Gairsain the capital of Uttarakhand on the day of Makar Sankranti in Bageshwar.[2]

The Uttarakhand Movement soon bore fruition after various cases of police administrative and police brutality in the later half of the movement, when the separate Uttaranchal state was formed on 9 November 2000 by the then BJP lead government. The change in state name to "Uttaranchal" garnered widespread criticism from UKD representatives and civilian activists for being an attempt at diluting the sacrifice of regional groups like the UKD.

However, in the first-ever state assembly elections in 2002, the party won only four out of 70 seats and was outmaneuvered by the Indian National Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party, both despite being latecomers to the Uttarakhand statehood movement, succeeded in capturing its momentum for electoral gain and formed governments in the state.[citation needed]

## Leadership

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The party's current face is Pooran Singh Kathait, who is party's central President since 2023. Under his leadership, Uttarakhand Kranti Dal is fighting for the causes of natives of Uttarakhand. There are various other leaders like Sh. Kashi Singh Airy, a prominent leader of the Uttarakhand statehood movement and a senior leader of Uttarakhand Kranti Dal, who was elected for Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly three times (1985–1989, 1989–1991, 1993–1996) from Didihat and was elected for first Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. The executive president of the party is Harish Chandra Pathak—senior statehood activist and prominent face of Uttarakhand statehood movement who fought from the forefront in the creation of Uttarakhand state. Jaswant Singh Bisht was the first elected MLA of the party from Ranikhet constituency. Other personalities include Indramani Badoni, Devi Datt Pant, Bipin Chandra Tripathi and Diwakar Bhatt who were among the founding members and long time agitators for the Uttarakhand statehood movement.

## Factionalism and decline

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Main article: 3rd Uttarakhand Assembly

In the 2012 Uttarakhand Assembly election, Uttarakhand Kranti Dal contested as Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (P) led by then party president Trivendra Singh Panwar. The original party name and the election symbol (chair) was frozen by the Election Commission of India following the factionalism and leadership dispute within the party that led to its breakup. The splinter group Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (D) led by former MLA and Cabinet Minister in the Khanduri government and later Pokhriyal government, Diwakar Bhatt broke away from the UKD with his supporters claiming the original party leadership. Pritam Singh Panwar was the only winning candidate of the party in the 2012 Assembly election, who ran under the UKD(P) banner.

Uttarakhand Kranti Dal's original name and party symbol were restored in 2017 with the merger of both groups.

The party's performance in various assembly and parliamentary elections has been on a consistent decline. The main reasons cited for UKD's decline in the politics of Uttarakhand are; inner factionalism, loss of voter base to other parties and frequent switching for power share between the BJP and Congress governments, which is often viewed negatively as political opportunism.

## Electoral performance

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### Uttar Pradesh

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Main article: Elections in Uttar Pradesh

#### Legislative Assembly elections

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See also: Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly

Year | Legislature | Party leader | Seats won | Change in seats | Outcome

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1980 | 8th Vidhan Sabha | Devi Datt Pant |

0 / 425

|  | –
1985 | 9th Vidhan Sabha | Indramani Badoni |

0 / 425

1989 | 10th Vidhan Sabha | Bipin Chandra Tripathi |

1 / 425

|  1 | Opposition
1991 | 11th Vidhan Sabha |

0 / 425

|  1 | –
1993 | 12th Vidhan Sabha | Kashi Singh Airy |

1 / 425

|  1 | Opposition
1996 | 13th Vidhan Sabha |

0 / 425

|  1 | –

#### Lok Sabha elections

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See also: Lok Sabha

Year | Legislature | Party leader | Seats won | Change in seats | Outcome

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1980 | 7th Lok Sabha | Devi Datt Pant |

0 / 85

|  | –
1984 | 8th Lok Sabha | Indramani Badoni |

0 / 85

1989 | 9th Lok Sabha | Bipin Chandra Tripathi |

0 / 85

1991 | 10th Lok Sabha |

0 / 85

1996 | 11th Lok Sabha | Kashi Singh Airy |

0 / 85

1998 | 12th Lok Sabha |

0 / 85

1999 | 13th Lok Sabha |

0 / 85

### Uttarakhand

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Main article: Elections in Uttarakhand

#### Legislative Assembly elections

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See also: Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly

Year | Legislature | Party leader | Seats won | Change in seats | Outcome

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2002 | 1st Vidhan Sabha | Bipin Chandra Tripathi |

4 / 70

|  4 | Opposition
2007 | 2nd Vidhan Sabha | Diwakar Bhatt |

3 / 70

|  1 | Government with BJP
2012 | 3rd Vidhan Sabha | Trivendra Singh Panwar |

1 / 70

|  2 | Government with INC
2017 | 4th Vidhan Sabha | Kashi Singh Airy |

0 / 70

|  1 | –
2022 | 5th Vidhan Sabha | Diwakar Bhatt |

0 / 70

#### Lok Sabha elections

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Year | Legislature | Party leader | Seats won | Change in seats | Outcome

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2004 | 14th Lok Sabha | Bipin Chandra Tripathi |

0 / 5

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2009 | 15th Lok Sabha | Diwakar Bhatt |

0 / 5

2014 | 16th Lok Sabha | Trivendra Singh Panwar |

0 / 5

2019 | 17th Lok Sabha | Kashi Singh Airy |

0 / 5

2024 | 18th Lok Sabha | Diwakar Bhatt |

0 / 5

## Legacy

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The party has taken on various campaigns in the past geared towards the social and economic upliftment of the Pahari people. The party has embraced a number of causes of concern to the diversity of people living in Uttarakhand, defining the Uttarakhandi identity in broad and inclusive terms. As such, its ideology of civic as opposed to ethnic nationalism can be compared to other centre-left nationalist parties like the Scottish National Party or the Plaid Cymru, although its orientation and goals are emphatically non-secessionist.

The party has been among the most active campaigners of the bhu Kanoon Movement and campaigned heavily to ensure judicial justice in the Ankita Bhandari Murder case.

## See also

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* Socialism portal
* Politics portal
* India portal

* Revolutionary Party
* List of socialist parties
* Bharatiya Janata Party, Uttarakhand
* Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee
* List of political parties in India

## References

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1. ^ 2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election
2. ^ Lohani, Girish (18 August 2019). "Indramani Badoni Archives". Kafal Tree. Retrieved 29 February 2024.

## External links

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* Official Website of Uttarakhand Kranti Dal
* A website established by UKD supporters.
* उत्तराखण्ड क्रान्ति दल का इतिहास
* A video of UKD public meeting
* Uttarakhand Solidarity Network Web Portal Library
* allindoon.com
* legalassistanceforum.org
* lawcollegedehradun.com
* garhwalpost.com

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