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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.
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).
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]
The BJP's origins lie in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, popularly known as the Jana Sangh, founded by Syama Prasad Mukherjee in 1951 in response to the politics of the dominant National Congress party. It was founded in collaboration with the Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and was widely regarded as ...
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 .
He had served as the president of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh in 1973. 3 1991–1993 Murli Manohar Joshi: Uttarakhand [11] [13] [14] [15] BJP ideologue Joshi had been affiliated with the RSS nearly fifty years before he became BJP president in 1991. As with his predecessor L. K. Advani, he played a large role in the Ram Janmabhoomi agitation.
Jagdish Prasad Kushwaha was an Ayurveda practitioner and politician from Jharkhand, India.He was a leader of Bharatiya Jana Sangh, considered as one of the early leaders of Sangh, who played significant role in establishing it in Kodarma Lok Sabha constituency and Giridih region in unified Bihar.
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 ...