United GCBA
The United GCBA, also known as the Ngawbinwsaing (Burmese for "Five Flowers Alliance"), was a political party in Burma led by U Ba Pe.
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History
The party was formed in 1936 as a successor to the People's Party,[1] and gained its name "Five Flowers Alliance" from the fact that it consisted of five parties; the People's Party, the Free Burma Party led by U Maung Gyi, the Wun Thar Nu GCBA of Ye U Sayadaw, the Boycott GCBA led by U Ba Si and the Upper Burma 21 group;[2] the party was largely based on factions of the General Council of Burmese Associations (GCBA).[3] In the general elections later in the year, the party won 46 of the 132 seats, but U Ba Pe was unable to form a government. The party was renamed the Nationalist Party the following year, but disintegrated shortly afterwards due to factional infighting.[3] One of the party's MPs, U Saw, subsequently founded the Patriot's Party.[4]
References
- Robert H Taylor (1987) The State in Burma, C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, p185
- Hans-Bernd Zöllner (2006) "Material on Ba Khaing, Political History of Myanma", Myanmar Literature Project
- Haruhiro Fukui (1985) Political parties of Asia and the Pacific, Greenwood Press, p143
- Fukui, p139
