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Dalit Kisan Dal

political party in Punjab

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ5211034 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dalit Kisan Dal (Dalit Peasants Party), is a political party in Punjab, India. The party was formed as a splinter group from Lok Bhalai Party 2001, when activists from LBP in Khamano, Machhiwara, Ropar and Samrala broke away. As of 2001 the general secretary of DKD was Bhinder Singh Ranwan, and the party president was Iqbal Singh Kapurthala. The party claims to fight for better conditions for peasants and dalits.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Dalit Kisan Dal” as political party in Punjab. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2001-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Dalit, Kisan and political can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as political party in Punjab. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5211034. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dalit Kisan Dal” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.