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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, [bʱaːɾətiːjə dʒənətaː paːɾʈiː] ⓘ; lit. ' Indian People's Party ') is a political party in India and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. [37] BJP was born out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's Bharatiya Jana Sangh. [38]
Vajpayee became the first president of the BJP upon its formation in 1980. 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 ...
The National Executive of Bharatiya Janata Party is the presidium and chief executive body of the Bharatiya Janata Party setting the overall strategic direction of the party and policy development. It is composed of members appointed by the BJP president and can have as many as 120 members.
A near clean-sweep in Uttar Pradesh, the northern state of 220 million people that sends the highest number of lawmakers to the lower house of parliament, helped Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP ...
In 1977, it merged with several other left, centre and right parties opposed to the Indian National Congress and formed the Janata Party. [12] In 1980, the members of erstwhile Jan Sangh quit the Janata party after the defeat in the 1980 general elections and formed the Bharatiya Janata Party, which is the direct political successor to the Jan ...
As India votes in a six-week general election, Narendra Modi's image adorns everything from packs of rice handed out to the poor to large posters in cities and towns. His Bharatiya Janata Party ...
Bharatiya Janata Party: Majhi [24] Puducherry [c] N. Rangaswamy: 7 May 2021 (3 years, 252 days) All India N.R. Congress: Rangaswamy IV [25] Punjab: Bhagwant Mann: 16 March 2022 (2 years, 304 days) Aam Aadmi Party: INDIA: Mann [26] Rajasthan: Bhajan Lal Sharma: 15 December 2023 (1 year, 30 days) Bharatiya Janata Party: NDA: Sharma [27] Sikkim ...
Mr Babones, in the past, had said that “India’s intellectual class is anti-India” and that there was a section that is “anti-Modi and anti-BJP”. He has also argued that the international ...