Cooperative Party

Co-operative Party
Matrabashi name	सहकारी पार्टी
Abbreviation	CP
Presidium	Standing Committee
General Secretary	Ekanath Nayak1
Committee Members	Aditi Padhya Prem Dalavi Jeet Mukhtar Manhar Mulani
Founder	Anand Mahanti
Founded	February 15, 1949 (1949-02-15)
Preceded by	People's Party
Headquarters	Rashram House, Daksard Road, Kinadica
Newspaper	Ekajutavaj
Youth wing	Young Mazadoor
Women's wing	Womens Mazadoor
Membership (2020)	16,125,084
Ideology	Charsidhanism Social democracy Democratic socialism
Political position	Left-wing
Religion	Secular
Colors	Red
Slogan	United in our Labour
Shahee Sansad seats	89 / 450
State Governments	9 / 25
Political parties 1 = Leader of HM's Opposition

The Co-operative Party (abbr. CP), commonly spelled as the Cooperative Party is a major political party in Rajyaghar and is one of the two main ones, along with the Rajyani Rashtriya Party (RRP). Only the Cooperative Party and Rajyani Rashtriya Party operate on a national scale with operations in all 25 Union States. The CP is a left-wing political party which dominates the political left in Rajyaghar, with the party advocating for socialist policies. The party has had the most Premiers of any political party in Rajyaghar (a total of 6). In 2010, the CP was voted out of office and entered the new Shahee Sansad as the Official Opposition, a position it has retained through the 2015 and 2020 general elections.

The Cooperative Party was founded in 1949 as a result of a split of the People's Party into the CP and Liberal Party. [continued brief history]

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History

People's Party split

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Mahanti Government

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Emergency

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Return to Government

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1980s-90s

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2000s

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Political wilderness

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General Election Results

Year	Legislature	Party leader	Seats won	Change in seats	Outcome
1951	2nd Shahee Sansad	Anand Mahanti	89 / 450	XX	Government
1955	3rd Shahee Sansad	XX	89 / 450	XX	Opposition
1959	4th Shahee Sansad	XX	89 / 450	XX	Opposition
1960	5th Shahee Sansad	XX	89 / 450	XX	Opposition
1965	6th Shahee Sansad	XX	89 / 450	XX	Opposition
1968	7th Shahee Sansad	XX	89 / 450	XX	Government
1973	8th Shahee Sansad	XX	89 / 450	XX	Government
1978	9th Shahee Sansad	XX	89 / 450	XX	Government
1980	10th Shahee Sansad	XX	89 / 450	XX	Opposition
1985	11th Shahee Sansad	XX	89 / 450	XX	Government
1987	12th Shahee Sansad	XX	89 / 450	XX	Government
1988	13th Shahee Sansad	XX	89 / 450	XX	Opposition
1992	14th Shahee Sansad	XX	89 / 450	XX	Opposition
1995	15th Shahee Sansad	Manas Gulati	89 / 450	XX	Government
2000	16th Shahee Sansad	Ravi Sharma	89 / 450	XX	Government
2005	17th Shahee Sansad	Ravi Sharma	89 / 450	XX	Government
2010	18th Shahee Sansad	Ravi Sharma	89 / 450	XX	Opposition
2015	19th Shahee Sansad	XX	89 / 450	XX	Opposition
2020	20th Shahee Sansad	XX	89 / 450	XX	Opposition

Ideology and political positions

Social and Economic Policies

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Communism Ban

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Foreign Policy

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Defence Policy

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Leadership

The Kendrasam is the leadership and policy making body of the Cooperative Party and it is made up of Congressmen/women from each of the Shahee Sansad constituencies. Each constituency has three congressmen/women which then determine amongst themselves a party member from that consitituency to run for that constituency's seat in the Shahee Sansad. The Kendrasam as a whole is tasked with selecting from amongst itself the General Secretary of the Cooperative Party. The General Secretary will then appoint several members of the Kendrasam to serve on the Standing Committee to assist in the leadership of the party, fill key party roles and help guide the policy making process within the Kendrasam.

Since the party's formation, the Standing Committee has always consisted of Cooperative Party MPs and they have always taken on the most senior of cabinet positions when in government. When the party is in opposition, the Standing Committee is often smaller in size.

The system was intended to have a 'bottom up' leadership system with local officials selecting the national leadership. In reality, the General Secretary and the Standing Committee will select the individuals from the party membership to serve as congressmen/women in the Kendrasam effectively making it a rubber stamp.

Current Standing Committee

Since 2017, the Standing Committee of the Cooperative Party consists of General Secretary Ekanath Nayak and four other members, thus making it the smallest Standing Committee in CP history.

Name	Party Position(s)	Government/Opposition Position(s)
Ekanath Nayak	General Secretary	Leader of the Opposition
Aditi Padhya	Party Secretary for the Union	Shadow Secretary of State for Home Affairs
Prem Dalavi	Party Secretary for the Sansad	Shadow Leader of the House
Jeet Mukhtar	Party Secretary for the Kendrasam	Opposition Chief Whip
Manhar Mulani	Party Secretary for Administration	Shadow Secretary of State for Justice