1991-1992
The IPF lost its Lok Sabha seat in the 1991 parliamentary election, losing about a fifth of its votes compared to 1989 (having contested 15 Lok Sabha seats). The IPF suffered a severe blow when four of its Bihar legislative assembly members defected to Laloo Prasad Yadav, at the height of polarisation around the Mandal issue.
On February 14, 1992, 14 Scheduled Caste landless labourers and followers of IPF were killed by the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh in Tikshora village near Patna.
In 1992 IPF won a seat in the Punjab legislative assembly election. IPF candidate Surjan Singh Joga won the Joga assembly seat.
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