 The party was named after Phule's Satyashodhak Samaj.Patil called for the building of an alliance between Dalits and Other Backward Castes, especially amongst the peasantry.The main base of the movement at the time of its foundation was limited to two Adivasi talukas in Dhule district, but Patil's rhetoric won an audience across the state and played an influential formulating a popular understanding of class-caste relations in rural areas.