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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 .
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 ...
In 1951, Madhok joined Shyama Prasad Mookerjee in the formation of what later become the political party of the Sangh Parivar, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh. The Bengal branch of the Jana Sangh was established by Mookerjee on 23 April 1951 and the Panjab and Delhi branch was established by Madhok a month later, on 27 May 1951.
Deendayal Upadhyaya (25 September 1916 – 11 February 1968), known by the epithet Panditji, was an Indian politician, a proponent of integral humanism ideology and leader of the political party Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), the forerunner of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). [2]
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.
Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, a farmers' organisation; Political parties that are independent from the Sangh Parivar's influence but that also espouse the Hindutva ideology include the Hindu Mahasabha, Prafull Goradia's Akhil Bharatiya Jana Sangh, [146] and the Marathi nationalist Shiv Sena, [147] Shiv Sena (UBT) and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena.
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.
President of Bharatiya Jana Sangh; In office 1965–1966: Preceded by: Debaprasad Ghosh: Succeeded by: Balraj Madhok: Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council; In office 1958-1962: Personal details; Born: 1916: Died: March 1972 (aged 55–56) Political party: Bharatiya Jana Sangh