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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, [bʱaːɾətiːjə dʒənətaː paːɾʈiː] ⓘ; lit. ' Indian People's Party ') is a political party in India and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. [36] BJP was born out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's Bharatiya Jana Sangh. [37]
The electoral history of the BJP and its predecessors in general elections The Bharatiya Janata Party is a political party in India . The following article contains the performance history of the organization in the elections, they have contested after their formation.
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 is seeking re-election in the 2024 parliamentary election as the leading party of the National Democratic Alliance, with Narendra Modi as its Prime Ministerial candidate.
State Portrait Name Took office Ref. Andhra Pradesh: Daggubati Purandeswari: 4 July 2023 (1 year, 172 days)[3]Arunachal Pradesh: Biyuram Wahge: 17 January 2020 (4 years, 341 days)
Bharatiya Janata Party, Punjab (or BJP Punjab) (BJP; [bʱaːɾət̪iːjə dʒənət̪aː paːrtiː] ⓘ; lit. ' Indian People's Party '), is the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Punjab. [7] Its head office is situated at the Amar Sahid Dr. Syama Prasad, Mukherjee Smarak Bhawan, Dakshin Marg, Sector-37-A, Chandigarh, Punjab-160036 ...
India after Gandhi: the history of the world's largest democracy (1st ed.). Picador. ISBN 978-0-330-39610-3. Hansen, Thomas Blom (23 March 1999). The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-2305-5. Swain, Pratap Chandra (2001). Bharatiya Janata Party: Profile and Performance ...
Bharatiya Janata Party: 182 –90 33.39% Atal Bihari Vajpayee 1999: Thirteenth: 59.99% Bharatiya Janata Party: 182 –90 33.39% Atal Bihari Vajpayee 2004: Fourteenth: 58.07% Indian National Congress: 145 –127 26.70% 218 Manmohan Singh: 2009: Fifteenth: 58.21% Indian National Congress: 206 –66 37.80% 262 Manmohan Singh 2014: Sixteenth: 66.44 ...
In 1977, it merged with several other left, centre and right parties opposed to the Indian National Congress and formed the Janata Party. [12] 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 ...