Charan Singh helped found the Janata Party in January 1977. His party Bharatiya Lok Dal provided the principal electoral base for the defeat of the Congress in North India. On March 24, 1977, he was elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time. A year later, in February 1978, Singh speaks about the Janata Party completing one year, where he especially stresses that the problem of our people has two aspects, social and economic. So far as the former is concerned, it is rooted in our caste system based on birth. As regards the economic aspect, it is primarily due to the increased population.