Kisan Mazdoor Mandal

The Kisan Mazdoor Mandal ('Peasant Worker Association', abbreviated KMM) was a political party in Bhopal State, India. The party was formed in 1950 by proponents of a merger with Madhya Bharat, who split away from the Indian National Congress.[1][2] The party had a Marxian orientation.[3] KMM was supported by the 10,000-member trade union Mazdoor Sabha.[3] Khan Shakir Ali Khan was the president of KMM.[4] In the run-up to the 1952 Bhopal Legislative Assembly election, KMM was the main opposition to the Bhopal Congress.[4]

KMM was recognized by the Election Commission of India as a state party.[2] The party was assigned the election symbol 'cultivator winnowing grain' by the Election Commission.[5] The party published a socialist manifesto before the polls.[3] The election result was a back-lash for the party.[6] KMM became the third-most voted party in the election, contesting 11 out of 30 seats in the state.[2] It obtained 12,255 votes (5.42% of the votes in the state), but didn't win any seats.[2] Khan stood as the KMM candidate in Jahangirabad constituency, finishing in second place with 2,581 votes (43.41% of the votes in the constituency).[2] KMM also fielded one candidate in the 1951-1952 Lok Sabha parliamentary election; Ratankumar in the Sehore constituency. He obtained 8,808 votes (9.28%).[7]

References
  1. Ashfaq Ali (1981). Bhopal, Past and Present : a Brief History of Bhopal from the Hoary Past Up to the Present Time. Jai Bharat Publishing House. p. 447.
  2. Election Commission of India. Bhopal, 1951
  3. S. N. Sadasivan (1977). Party and democracy in India. Tata McGraw-Hill. p. 44.
  4. Myron Wiener (8 December 2015). State Politics in India. Princeton University Press. pp. 511–512. ISBN 978-1-4008-7914-4.
  5. Manorama Sinha (1 January 2007). Electoral Geography of India. Adhyayan Publishers & Distributors. p. 105. ISBN 978-81-8435-020-3.
  6. S. P. Singh Sud; Ajit Singh Sud (1953). Indian Elections and Legislators. All India Publications. p. 107.
  7. Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1951 TO THE FIRST LOK SABHA
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