The Samajwadi Party (SP) is an Indian regional political party. The Samajwadi Party advocates for the economic and social advancement of minorities, particularly the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and Muslims. The party is likewise based on Secularism's guiding principles, and it opposes all communal groups. The Samajwadi Party was founded in Lucknow in October 1992 by senior politician and party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav; it was one of many political groups that broke away from the parent organization Janata Dal. The Samajwadi party gets its majority of supporters from Uttar Pradesh. The SP is India's one of the most powerful parties who has made the government in Uttar Pradesh 3 times. It also retained a modest but significant number of Lok Sabha seats.