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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is one of the two major political parties in India and has been the ruling party since the 16th Lok Sabha. It successfully sought re-election in the 2024 parliamentary election as the leading party of the National Democratic Alliance, with Narendra Modi as its Prime Ministerial candidate. [2]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 February 2025. 2012 Indian presidential election ← 2007 19 July 2012 (2012-07-19) 2017 → Nominee Pranab Mukherjee P. A. Sangma Party INC NPP Alliance UPA NDA Home state West Bengal Meghalaya Electoral vote 713,763 315,987 States carried 20+ NCT + PY 8 Percentage 69.3% 30.7% Swing 3.5% 3.5% ...
BJP flag being flown in one of its campaign rallies. The name as well as the symbol of the party were selected by the founders. The name "Bharatiya Janata Party" literally translates to "Indian People's Party". The Symbol of the party is the flower Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera). [61] Lotus has a cultural significance within India as well as Hinduism ...
Kumari stood as a candidate in the 2017 state assembly elections but faced criticism because of suspicions regarding an increase in her income. [6] Described as the poorest MLA in the state in 2012, based on her declared assets in an election affidavit, they had grown almost 30-fold by 2017. [ 5 ]
The BJP leadership of East Burdwan had submitted a list to the police demanding the return of refugee workers of their party. According to police sources, most of the people mentioned in the lists, provided by the BJP in each police station in the district, have been sent back to their home.
Singh played a large role in the BJP's campaign for the 2014 Indian general election, including declaring Narendra Modi the party's Prime Ministerial candidate despite opposition from within the BJP. After the party's landslide victory, Singh resigned the party presidency to assume the position of Home Minister.
H Raja was the BJP candidate from Sivaganga constituency in the 2014 Indian general elections, but lost to AIADMK's PR Senthilnathan. [ 20 ] In the 2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election Raja contested from Alandur constituency and lost. [ 19 ]
Earlier, BJP had raised Samrat Chaudhary to the post of party's Bihar unit president in a bid to bring Kushwahas within the fold of BJP. However, discontent was seen amongst the Kushwahas on the ground level as Chaudary was not able to field any Kushwaha candidate on the symbol of BJP in 2024 polls.