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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.
In the Class 7 textbook topic titled “Our Pasts-2”, pages 48 and 49 have been excluded. These pages mentioned “Mughal Emperors: Major campaigns and events.” The deletions also affected Biology and Chemistry textbooks as the theory of evolution and the periodic table were also purged from class 10 NCERT textbooks. [40] [41]
The BJP has had trouble changing the textbooks, because many states in which the BJP is not in power have blocked saffronisation efforts. The BJP, citing a rigid anti-Hindu agenda, restructured NCERT and the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) to make textbooks conform to the BJP's Hindu nationalist platform. [ 6 ]
As of 4th June 2024 NDA have government in 19 States and 1 Union Territories. INDIA bloc have government in 8 States and 2 union Territories. Other one party ZPM , which is not part of any alliance has government in Mizoram state.
The BJP was also able to expand its traditionally upper-caste, upper-class support base and received significant support from middle-class and Dalit people, as well as among Other Backward Classes. [ 108 ] [ 105 ] Its support among Muslims remained low; only 8% of Muslim voters voted for the BJP.
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 .
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is one of the major political parties in India and is the main opposition party during the 15th Lok Sabha.It contested the 2014 parliamentary election along with their supportive parties, to form National Democratic Alliance with Narendra Modi as its Prime Ministerial candidate and party president Rajnath Singh as the chief-of-election of campaign.
BJP support for Singh's government was later withdrawn after Hindu religious volunteers called Kar Sevaks were killed while fighting with paramilitary forces guarding Babri Mosque(which is on the disputed site). Fresh elections ensued and BJP raised its tally to 120 seats and won a majority in the Uttar Pradesh assembly. RSS and its affiliates ...