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The Akhil Bharatiya Jana Sangh (abbreviated as BJS or JS, short name: Jan Sangh [9]) 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 .
With the help of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, [7] he founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the predecessor to the Bharatiya Janata Party, in 1951. [8] He was also the president of Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha from 1943 to 1946. He was arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir Police in 1953 when he tried to cross the border of the state.
The party's origins lie in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which was founded in 1951 by Indian politician Syama Prasad Mukherjee, after he left Hindu Mahasabha to form a party as the political wing of RSS. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] After the Emergency of 1975–1977, the Jana Sangh merged with several other political parties to form the Janata Party ; it ...
He served as the Organizing Secretary of Bharatiya Jana Sangh in 1953. He served as the editor of the daily Hindi newspaper Swadesh (Indore) from 1968 to 1985. In the year 1975, Vajpayee was jailed during The Emergency , but he did not let his writing stop.
In 1951, Vajpayee was seconded by the RSS, along with Deendayal Upadhyaya, to work for the newly formed Bharatiya Jana Sangh, a Hindu right-wing political party associated with the RSS. He was appointed as a national secretary of the party in charge of the Northern region, based in Delhi.
The 2019 Indian Readership Survey reported that with 9.65 million it had the 4th-largest daily readership amongst newspapers in India. [4] Amar Ujala was founded in Agra in 1948. [5] [6] In 1994, Amar Ujala, along with another Hindi daily, shared nearly 70 per cent of the Hindi newspaper readership in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
He was regarded as an ideal swayamsevak of the RSS essentially because ‘his discourse reflected the pure thought-current of the Sangh’. In 1951, when Syama Prasad Mookerjee founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh , Deendayal was seconded to the party by the RSS, tasked with moulding it into a genuine member of the Sangh Parivar .
Balraj Madhok (बलराज मधोक; 25 February 1920 – 2 May 2016) was an Indian political activist and politician from Jammu.Originally an activist of the nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), he later worked as a politician in the Bharatiya Jan Sangh (BJS).