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In the Class 7 textbook topic titled “Our Pasts-2”, pages 48 and 49 have been excluded. These pages mentioned “Mughal Emperors: Major campaigns and events.” The deletions also affected Biology and Chemistry textbooks as the theory of evolution and the periodic table were also purged from class 10 NCERT textbooks. [40] [41]
The Akhil Bharatiya Jana Sangh (abbreviated as BJS or JS, short name: Jan Sangh [10]) was a Hindutva political party active in India.It was established on 21 October 1951 in Delhi by three founding members: Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, Balraj Madhok and Deendayal Upadhyaya.
The party is considered to be a cadre-based party that draws from the Hindutva-based ideology of its parent organisation, the RSS. [2] [3] As of 2019, it is the country's largest political party in terms of representation in the national parliament and state assemblies and is the world's largest party in terms of primary membership. [4]
Under him the BJP projected itself as a centrist party that had moved away from the strident politics of the BJS. Vajpayee, often seen as the moderate face of the BJP, later became the first Prime Minister of India not from the Indian National Congress to serve a full term. 2 1986–1991 L. K. Advani: Gujarat [4] [7] [10] [11] [12]
The BJP was also able to expand its traditionally upper-caste, upper-class support base and received significant support from middle-class and Dalit people, as well as among Other Backward Classes. [ 109 ] [ 106 ] Its support among Muslims remained low; only 8% of Muslim voters voted for the BJP.
The BJP has had trouble changing the textbooks because many states in which the BJP is not in power have blocked saffronisation efforts. The BJP, citing a rigid anti-Hindu agenda, restructured NCERT and the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) to make textbooks conform to the BJP's Hindu nationalist platform. [ 92 ]
The electoral history of the BJP and its predecessors in general elections. ... 2 4 949,176 10.36 1.42 2009: 90 90 4 2 857,831 9.04 1.32 2014: 90 90 47 43 4,125,285
2. Rashtriya Janata Dal: 4 20 3. Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam: 18 2 4. Nationalist Congress Party: 9 1 5. All India Trinamool Congress: 19 18 6. Jammu & Kashmir National Conference: 3 3 7. Bodoland People's Front: 1 1 8. Jharkhand Mukti Morcha: 3 9. All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen: 1 1 10. Indian Union Muslim League: 2 1 11. Kerala Congress ...