
	Where results make sense

Topic: Bharatiya Jan Sangh

Related Topics

Political party

Communist

Bharatiya Janata Party

Elections by country

List of political parties

In the News (Thu 24 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Jan Sangh: The BJP's Predecessor By Bipan Chandra 1998
		Jan Sangh: The BJP's Predecessor By Bipan Chandra 1998
		Ostensibly, the Jan Sangh was a party in its own right and under Mookerjee it did enjoy a certain degree of independence, but even then its spearhead was the RSS and its carefully- chosen cadre who were put in crucial positions in the new party.
		The high watermark of the Jan Sangh before it became the BJP was reached in 1967 when it won 35 seats with 9.35 per cent of the popular vote, with the Hindu Mahasabha and the RRP having disappeared as political forces.
	sacw.insaf.net /DC/CommunalismCollection/ArticlesArchive/bipinonJANSANGH.html (2361 words)

	The history of the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) by Mr. Malkani, Rajya Sabha Member, alongwith the growth of the Sangh ...
		Bharatiya Janata Party is today the most prominent member of the family of organisations known as the "Sangh Parivar".
		This was the context in which Shri Guruji blessed the birth of Bhartiya Jana Sangh under the leadership of Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee in 1951.
		To the professional detractors of Jana Sangh JP's categorical response was: "If Jana Sangh is communal then I am also communal." As the opposition parties won election after by-election, the cry ran through the country: "Sinhasan khali karo, ki janata aati hai".
	members.tripod.com /antibjp/history/history.html (1365 words)

	rediff.com: The Rediff Interview/Balraj Madhok
		The former MP blames the recent decline in the BJP's appeal on the party distancing itself from the ideology of the Jan Sangh to please its political allies.
		I was a Jan Sangh MP from the South Delhi parliamentary constituency.
		The Jan Sangh is said to have spawned the BJP in 1980.
	www.rediff.com /news/2002/mar/18inter.htm (1275 words)

	Bharatiya Jana Sangh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bharatiya Jana Sangh (abbreviated BJS, and often known simply as the Jan Sangh) existed from 1951 to 1980, whereupon it was succeeded by the Bharatiya Janata Party, one of India's largest political parties.
		In 1952 general elections to the Parliament of India, Bharatiya Jana Sangh had won three seats; Mookerjee being one of the winning candidates.
		The BJS was ideologically close to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, and derived most of its political activist base and candidates from the RSS ranks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bharatiya_Jana_Sangh (504 words)

	The Hindu : Kashmir: Sangh Parivar's Waterloo
		Ideologically, the Hindu nationalist identity was predicated on the notion of "Muslim disloyalty to the Indian nation", while politically, it adhered to the strong state theory with total subordination of the minorities to the Hindu majority.
		These political forces represented by the Jan Sangh and the RSS lost the battle for State formation in 1947 to the Nehru-led Congress' modernist nationalism that upheld the idea of a secular and plural India.
		The Bharatiya Jan Sangh, the Hindu Mahasabha, the Ram Rajya Parishad, the Punjab Arya Samaj and some Akali leaders supported the Parishad's agitation.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2002/11/06/stories/2002110600821000.htm (1246 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Nation
		The Bharatiya Jan Sangh was launched as it was strongly felt by RSS supremo (Sarsanghchalak) M.S. Golwalkar that the Sangh parivar, in the wake of the ban, urgently needed a spokesman and that was why he commanded his trusted follower Shyama Prasad Mukherjee to float a political platform.
		In 1967, the Jan Sangh earned a major political landmark when it became part of the many state governments, including Uttar Pradesh, where a coalition government was formed with the participation of the Jan Sangh, which was till then considered a communal outfit.
		While the Jan Sangh decided to merge into the Janata Party in 1977 after lifting of the Emergency, the hold of the RSS continued on its members who were in the unified party thus raising the issue of dual membership.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20011021/nation.htm (2988 words)

	Digging in their ideological heels - Hard News - Nothing But Politics
		The secularist media is trying to exploit trivial things to project a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) versus the rest of the Parivar tussle, on the one hand, and a feud between moderates and hardliners within the party, on the other.
		It is not that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) does not comprehend the compulsion of coalition politics but it believes that the coalition should not be a one-sided compulsion of the BJP.
		The Jan Sangh was born not as a power but an ideology seeking party.
	www.hardnewsmedia.com /july05/cstory4.php (1144 words)

	The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : A long, gruelling march to power
		The Bharatiya Jan Sangh, the earlier edition of the BJP, made its electoral debut in the erstwhile State of Mysore in the 1952 general elections.
		The Jan Sangh also did reasonably well in the 1967 Lok Sabha election from Bangalore South, where the Kannada literary giant Gopalakrishna Adiga gave a fight to the Congress stalwart Kengal Hanumanthaiya.
		However, the Jan Sangh had a presence in the Legislative Council from the mid-1960s, winning seats reserved for graduates and teachers.
	www.hindu.com /2006/01/29/stories/2006012909220400.htm (813 words)

	Raj Karega Khalsa .com: VHP, RSS, HSS, BJP, SHIV SENA, ARYA SAMAJ, BAJRANG DAL- an introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Formed with the explicit purpose of re-establishing Ram-Rajya (the Empire of Ram), its goal was the elimination of Sudroid Blacks (Dalits, Dravidians, Adivasis, Kolarians) and to establish a racially pure Aryan nation on the lines of Ram-Rajya.
		Jan Sangh, the Hindu Mahasabha and the Ram Rajya Parishad was 10 seats with 6.4 per cent of the votes.
		Earlier known as the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), the BJP was established in 1951 as a political wing of the RSS to counter rising public revulsion after the revered independence figure Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by a former RSS member.
	www.rajkaregakhalsa.net /khalsa/vhprssbjp.htm (2525 words)

	The `proud' milestones
		By calling the Kargil war and the 1998 nuclear tests the party's milestones, the BJP seems to admit that the distinction between the party and the government was blurred during its rule at the Centre.
		The BJP consideres the "martyrdom" of Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookerjee, the founder of the Bharatiya Jan Sangh, its progenitor, the 30th anniversary of the declaration of Emergency by Indira Gandhi, the liberation of Goa, and the foundation of the Jan Sangh itself as important milestones.
		The BJP was formed in 1980 after the Bharatiya Jan Sangh broke away from the Janata Party on the dual membership issue, which led to the fall of the Morarji Desai government in 1979.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/fline/fl2209/stories/20050506001902600.htm (1145 words)

	Vajpayee launches attack on religious hawks -DAWN - International; October 22, 2001
		Vajpayee and Advani are seen as representing the moderate and the Hindu rightwing flanks of the party that began its innings as Bharatiya Jana Sangh in the first 1952 elections.
		The Jan Sangh, formed by Dr Mukherjee, was merged into the Janata Party in 1977, which emerged again in 1980 in its new incarnation — the BJP.
		Most of the Jan Sangh leaders took part in the Jai Prakash Narain-led students’ agitation in Bihar and were incarcerated during the Emergency.
	www.dawn.com /2001/10/22/int10.htm (717 words)

	Hindu nationalism Summary
		The Bharatiya Janata Party, the political party of Hindu nationalism, was created in 1951 under the name of Bharatiya Jan Sangh (Indian People's Union); it was renamed in 1980.
		The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh was founded in Nagpur, Maharashtra in 1925 by K.B. Hedgewar, a physician who felt that Hindu social unity was a deeply important foundation for a free India.
		The Bharatiya Janata Party and its predecessor the Bharatiya Jana Sangh are considered by observers and critics as the political wing of the RSS.
	www.bookrags.com /Hindu_nationalism (4216 words)

	Indian News: 123India.com World and Regional News
		Elaborating on the contributions of the Bharatiya Jan Sangh, Mr Vajpayee, the first editor of Rashtradharm, said, "If today Kashmir is an inseparable part of India, it is because of us.
		He said the BJP is carrying forward the Bharatiya Jan Sangh’s aims and objectives of making India a prosperous and developed state.
		Mr Advani highlighted the achievements of the Jan Sangh and the BJP and said that these two parties had made Indian politics bi-polar as the country was earlier run by a single party.
	news.123india.com /news/520060828-i.html (402 words)

	An agenda unmasked
		Nevertheless, what is normally called the `Sangh Parivar' is actually one family that comes under the umbrella of the RSS.
		As observed by the author in the Introduction, the RSS is one of the most talked-about and controversial organisations in contemporary India.
		Independence also saw a shift in the RSS strategy — the formation of a political front in the shape of the Bharatiya Jan Sangh — ending its so-called confinement to the field of culture.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1925/stories/20021220001207600.htm (1951 words)

	The BJP: A crisis of identity
		Formally, the Jana Sangh would admit all to its membership; but it would reflect the ideology and ideas of the RSS which Mookerjee fully approved.
		During the Emergency, representatives of the Lok Dal, Congress (O), Socialist Party and the Jana Sangh met at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters at 7, Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, on July 8, 1976.
		On November 5, 1940, one of the leading lights of the Congress who was elected its president, Purshottam Das Tandon, tried to persuade students at the Allahabad University "to follow the example of German students in their admiration of the Fuhrer".
	www.flonnet.com /fl2225/stories/20051216001507600.htm (2810 words)

	fascism of Sangh
		The Jan Sangh and the BJP have been advocating such a repudiation of the Nehruvian legacy of self-reliance and planning for many years, but the forces of Hindutva, in whose propaganda and activity matters economic so far have occupied only a minor place, can claim little 'credit' for actually bringing about the shift.
		The ideologists of the Sangh Parivar (a Girilal Jain or a Swapan Dasgupta apart) may themselves be still largely unaware of the varied possibilities of post-modernism: that certain current academic fashions can reduce the resistance of intellectuals to the ideas of Hindutva has already become evident.
		The Sangh Parivar, similarly, tries to establish its claim to be truly and uniquely 'national' by a ‘democratic' argument: Hindu interests should prevail always in India, and maybe, it should at some stage be declared a Hindu Rashtra, for Hindus after all are the majority, by Census reckoning 85 per cent of the population.
	www.geocities.com /indianfascism/fascism/fascism_of_sangh.htm (6418 words)

	Why the BJP lords over the RSS
		The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, a trade union affiliate of the Sangh Parivar has not been given its due under the NDA government.
		The Sangh is not clear about the extent to which it should influence the policies of the Government.
		There is growing resistance within the BJP to be dictated by the Sangh on affairs of the state.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/20010401/ian01012.html (839 words)

	BJP and coalition politics
		Before the elections, the idea that there could be every combination of communists, socialists, Swatantra and Jan Sangh in the same government was inconceivable.
		But, realising the political trend which appeared to be a compulsion in a multiparty system, the RSS in its meeting of Pratinidhi Sabha (April 1967) felt that "the present coming together of the several parties will help understanding one another and wipe out the animosity" (Organiser, April 19, 1967).
		Late Deen Dayal Upadhyay, the ideologue of the then Bharatiya Jan Sangh (BJS) looked upon the alliance with non Congress parties as a tactical move to consolidate and expand the party base as long as the party itself is not in a position to attain power on its own.
	www.saag.org /papers/paper79.html (1172 words)

	BJP vis a vis Hindu Revivalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Sangh workers shun luxury and move around by public transport, in the lowest-class compartments; in communications as well as in their martial arts practice (with the stick), they are deliberately settling for older technology, quite comparable to Gandhi's choice for living in the past with his charkha.
		Similarly, no acknowledgement is made of the help which the RSS received from the Arya Samaj and the Hindu Mahasabha everywhere.
		During the 1989 elections, when the BJP had an electoral alliance with the Janata Dal, Balraj Madhok stood as a candidate for the reconstituted Bharatiya Jan Sangh against the Janata Dal candidate in Lucknow.
	www.bharatvani.org /books/bjp/section6.html (1959 words)

	World Prout Assembly: Sangh turns on Sangh history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The book, titled RSS Aur Bharatiya Jana Sangh Ki Sthapana Ka Itihas (The History of Creation of the RSS and Bharatiya Jana Sangh), was a part of 16 volumes brought out by the BJP during the party’s silver jubilee celebrations in December last year.
		This has made the Sangh unhappy as it claims the RSS came into being for the “promotion of Hindutva”, rather than to oppose minorities.
		Though party insiders wonder why an exception has been taken to their genuine belief that the origin of “minority-appeasement” was in Gandhi’s attitude towards the Muslims, the BJP was obviously embarrassed enough to withdraw the volume.
	www.worldproutassembly.org /archives/2006/05/sangh_turns_on.html (845 words)

	Tehelka - The People's Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ahead of its silver jubilee convention in December, the BJP and its parent, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),are at the crossroads.
		The Sangh already has 60 pracharaks on deputation with the BJP and nearly 120 pracharak-like fulltimers drawn from the party ranks who control the cadre.
		The new party’s rout was absolute in the first general elections and it returned to the Sangh for organisational and ideological support.
	www.tehelka.com /story_main15.asp?filename=Ne121005battle_of.asp (2004 words)

	ZNet Commentary: Ayodhya to Gujarat: A Dangerous Decade
		For instance, on 6 December 2000, the Prime Minister of India, Atal Behari Vajpayee, said that the construction of the temple was an expression of ‘national sentiment’.
		The earlier parliamentary front of the RSS was the Bharatiya Jan Sangh (BJS), a more or less peripheral force in Indian politics.
		The Janata Party disintegrated and the RSS constituted the Bharatiya Janata Party to contest the general elections of 1980.
	www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2002-12/21deshpande.cfm (1457 words)

	Victory Of Secularism By Asghar Ali Engineer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Who does not know that in 1978 also the Bharatiya Jan Sangh preferred to resign from the Janata Party rather than severe its relations with the RSS when Raj Narain, Madhu Limaye and George Fernandese raised dual membership controversy.
		The Sangh Parivar has seriously damaged it already and all Efforts should be made to restore its secular character.
		Also, communalisation of police particularly during last twenty five years of communal hype by the Sangh Parivar, is something to be taken very seriously.
	www.countercurrents.org /ie-engineer010604.htm (1554 words)

	India Travel Times, News For Tourists And Travellers, Al-Umma SA Basha Jailed, Shoot-out In Corbett Park, Salman Khan ...
		In all, 24 persons were arrested for planning to disrupt normal life by planting bombs in and around Chennai in 1998, after the serial blasts in Coimbatore which claimed 58 lives.
		The Coimbatore serial blasts took place in 1998 during the campaigning of Bharatiya Janata Party leader Lal Krishna Advani, who is now the deputy prime minister.
		A dozen suspected activists from the radical Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological parent of India's ruling Hindu nationalist party, Bharatiya Jan Sangh, attacked the missionaries with swords and sticks after setting off a crude bomb.
	www.indiatraveltimes.com /crime/jan03.html (1890 words)

	The Rediff On The NeT Election Special: Run-up to the Rajasthan assembly election
		The first time was in 1977, when in the post-Emergency anti-Indira Gandhi wave, the Janata Party was swept to power and Shekhawat of the Bharatiya Jan Sangh became chief minister.
		Thought Shekhawat's entire political career has been with the Bharatiya Janata Party and its earlier avatar, the Bharatiya Jan Sangh, he is known not to care too much for ideology.
		But even then his interest was politics and he joined the Bharatiya Jan Sangh when it was formed in 1951.
	www.rediff.com /news/1998/nov/24jaipur.htm (1387 words)

	BJP : Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi- a profile
		He championed the cause of the downtrodden and was arrested several times as Jan Sangh leader, mobilising public opinion and leading agitations.
		On the defeat of Emergency Raj in 1977, Dr. Joshi was elected to the Lok Sabha, and became the General Secretary of the Janata Party in Parliament.
		In the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad he was All India General Secretary in the early fifties.
	www.bjp.org /leader/mmjoshi.htm (2158 words)

	Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh (अखिल भारतीय जनसंघ, All India Popular Union) is a Hindu nationalist political party in India.
		The party claims to be the authentic Bharatiya Jan Sangh, which is the precursor of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
		ABJS was founded by Balraj Madhok, a former general secretary of BJS who had been expelled from that party in 1973, after he left the Janata Party in 1979.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Akhil_Bharatiya_Jan_Sangh (170 words)

	Is spring far behind?, The Milli Gazette, Vol. 3 No. 8
		Gujarat is the only state, where Bharatiya Janata Party has a clear and decisive majority.
		Communalism of the majority community was there, much before the foundation of Bharatiya Jan Sangh by Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukerjee.
		Bharatiya Janata Party contested the elections to Lok Sabha under the leadership of Atal Behari Vajpayee, who kept a low profile, when his counterpart Lal Krishna Advani was conducting his aggressive rathyatra from Somnath to Ayodhya.
	www.milligazette.com /Archives/15042002/1504200249.htm (1279 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)