Ambedkarite Party of India

The Ambedkarite Party of India is a political party in India based on the ideas of B. R. Ambedkar. The API was founded on April 14, 2013, and has its headquarters in Nagpur.^[1] Vijay Mankar is the national president.^[1]

The API fielded 34 candidates in the 2014 Indian general election, who together received 185,095 votes (0.03% of the nationwide vote).^[2] It contested 5 seats in the 2016 Kerala Assembly election^[3] and one in the 2017 Goa Assembly election.^[4] The party participates in alliances such as the Purogami Lokshahi Aghadi for the 2017 Nashik municipal elections.^[5]