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The Bharatiya Janata Party ([bʱaːɾətiːjə dʒənətaː paːɾʈiː] ⓘ, lit. ' Indian People's Party ' , BJP ) is a political party in India and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress . [ 43 ]
This coalition did not last past 1980, and from the consequent break-up of coalition parties was the founding of the Bharatiya Janata Party in April 1980. This new national political party relied on the Hindutva ideology-based rural and urban grassroots organisations that had rapidly grown across India from the mid-1970s. [79]
The party is considered to be a cadre-based party that draws from the Hindutva-based ideology of its parent organisation, the RSS. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] As of 2019 [update] , it is the country's largest political party in terms of representation in the national parliament and state assemblies and is the world's largest party in terms of primary membership .
In 1977, it merged with several other left, centre and right parties opposed to the Indian National Congress and formed the Janata Party. [11] 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 ...
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 was seeking re-election in the 2019 parliamentary election as the leading party of the National Democratic Alliance, with Narendra Modi as its Prime Ministerial candidate and party president Amit Shah as the campaign chief.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee, who founded the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Jana Sangh, on a 1978 stamp of India. Mookerjee was the founder of the Nationalist Bharatiya Jana Sangh party, the precursor of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Mookerjee was firmly against Nehru's invitation to the Pakistani PM, and their joint pact to establish minority ...
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.
The Janata Party was officially launched on 23 January 1977 when the Janata Morcha, Charan Singh's Bharatiya Lok Dal, Swatantra Party, the Socialist Party of India of Raj Narain and George Fernandes, and the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) joined, dissolving their separate identities (the merger of all party organisations was to be completed after ...