Progressive Party (United States, 1912)
The Progressive Party was a third party in the United States formed in 1912 by former President Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party to his former protégé, incumbent President William Howard Taft. The new party was known for taking advanced positions on progressive reforms and attracting some leading reformers. After the party's defeat in the 1912 presidential election, it went into rapid decline, disappearing by 1918. The Progressive Party was popularly nicknamed the "Bull Moose Party" since Roosevelt often said that he felt "strong as a bull moose" both before and after an assassination attempt on the campaign trail.
Kishori Lal
In January 1948 nearly 1500 members (including Kishori Lal) of the Punjab unit of Communist Party of India broke away and founded the Lal Communist Party Hind Union. This party carried out militant agrarian struggles in the PEPSU region of Punjab. After nearly four years the Lal Communist Party was reunified with its parent party in July 1952.