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The Akhil Bharatiya Jana Sangh (abbreviated as BJS or JS, short name: Jan Sangh, [10] was an Indian nationalist political party. This party was established on 21 October 1951 in Delhi, and existed until 1977. Its three founding members were Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, Balraj Madhok and Deendayal Upadhyaya.
Jagannathrao Joshi (23 June 1920 – 15 July 1991) was an Indian politician and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was born at Nargund, Karnataka on 23 June 1920. He completed his matriculation from Nutan Marathi Vidyalaya in Pune and graduation in English Hons from Sir Parshurambhau College.
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. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] After the Emergency of 1975–1977, the Jana Sangh merged with several other political parties to form the Janata Party ; it ...
His real name was Chandrakant Parulekar, but he was better known by the honorific 'Bapusaheb'. He represented the Ratnagiri constituency of Maharashtra, winning the election in 1977 and 1980, and was a member of the Jan Sangh until 1977, when it merged with Janata Party. [1] [2] [3] Parulekar died on 27 July 2023, at the age of 94. [4]
He was among the last to be released, after election results were declared in March 1977. [citation needed] Malkani was associated with the Bharatiya Jana Sangh since its formation and was one of the founders of the Bharatiya Janata Party in 1980. He was Vice-President of the Deendayal Research Institute, New Delhi from 1983 to 1990.
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.
On 20 January, four opposition parties, the Indian National Congress (Organisation), the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the Bharatiya Lok Dal and the Praja Socialist Party, decided to fight the elections under a single banner called the Janata alliance. [1] The alliance used the symbol allocated to Bhartiya Lok Dal as their symbol on the ballot papers.
By this time, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh was formed in Delhi to champion Hindu nationalist politics, and the Praja Parishad became its affiliate in Jammu and Kashmir. [17] Even though Jana Sangh won only 3 seats in the Indian Parliament in the 1951–52 general elections , Shyama Prasad Mukherjee was a powerful leader, commanding a big block of ...