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  Bharatiya Janata party – FREE Bharatiya Janata party Information | Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
The BJP draws its Hindu nationalist creed from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS; National Self-Service Organization), a group founded in 1925 in opposition to Mohandas Gandhi and dedicated to the propagation of orthodox Hindu religious practices.
The BJP's direct political antecedent is the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, a party established in 1951 that stood in staunch opposition to what it perceived as the evils of Western cultural imperialism.
Although the BJP moved to distance itself somewhat from the RSS and attract Muslim voters, party members were accused of complicity in the violence that killed perhaps as many as 2,000 in Gujarat in Feb.-Mar., 2002.
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 Bharatiya Janata Party - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The BJP was severely discredited by the 2002 Gujarat riots, where the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi of the BJP was accused of protecting murderous Hindu mobs and obstructing the work of police to stop the anti-Muslim violence.
Though BJP attempted to defend and justify Modi's leadership, the moderate wing of the party was embarrassed and weakened by the effects of the fiasco on the party's image and its efforts to woo Muslim voters.
In Bihar the BJP is allied to the Janata Dal (United).
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 OurMLA.com/Bharatiya Janata Party
Bharatiya Janata Party is today the most prominent member of the family of organisations known as the "Sangh Parivar".
As a result of this successful resistance by the Janata Party of which the BJS was a significant component, the Congress was trounced in the 1977 elections and a Janata Party government was formed.
The BJP position is very clear on this issue; Indian Science and technology have come of age, as examplified by our Defence and Research Development Organisation presided over by Dr. Abdul Kalam.The BJP's Ekta Yatra under the leadership of Dr Joshi hoisted the national flag in Srinagar on Republic Day in 1992.
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 Janata Party - History Of Janata Party | Encyclopedia.com: Dictionary Of World History
The so-called Janata Front was a broad coalition formed to oppose Indira GANDHI in 1975.
The Janata Party proper was formed in 1977 as a coalition under Morarji Desai; it won the 1977 election and formed a government that endured until the end of 1979.
Gandhi, leader of the opposition Congress party, was born in Italy; she won in a southern...
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 Bharatiya Janata Party - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
BJP is part of the informal community of Hindu nationalist organisations called Sangh Parivar.
In 1998, the BJP government gave the go-ahead for the Indian nuclear tests.
The party has also throughout its history tried to highlight the achievements and political ideology of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the right wing freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar during the Indian independence movement.
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 The history of the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) by Mr. Malkani, Rajya Sabha Member, alongwith the growth of the Sangh ...
BJP should have probably made it clear that it should be consulted on all major issues.
Conventional wisdom is that the BJP won 89 Lok Sabha seats in 1989 as a result of seat adjustments with JD and 119 seats in 1991 as a result of the Ayodhya issue.
The BJP's historic performance in the recent assembly elections, when there was no seat adjustment with other parties and when the Ayodhya issue stood frozen, is confirmation of the fact that basically the BJP is forging ahead because of its excellent organisation, superb leadership and patriotic people's policies.
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 India (06/08)
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee serves as Chairman of the BJP Parliamentary Party, and former Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani is Leader of the Opposition.
The Hindu-nationalist BJP draws its political strength mainly from the "Hindi Belt" in the northern and western regions of India.
The party must balance the competing interests of Hindu nationalists, (who advocate construction of a temple on a disputed site in Ayodhya, and other primarily religious issues), and center-right modernizers who see the BJP as a party of economic and political reform.
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 webindia123.com-India Government-major national parties in India
BJP is the successor party of the BJS (Bharatiya Jana Sangh), which merged itself into the Janata Party in 1977.
The BJP was formed as a separate party in 1980 after internal differences in the Janata Party resulted in the collapse of its government in 1979.
Communist Party of India was founded by a few young patriots inspired by the Great October Socialist Revolution on December 26, 1925 and started functioning legally from 1942 when the ban on the party was lifted.
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 BJP - Bharatiya Janata Party India
Bharatiya Janata Party is today the most prominent member of the family of organisations known as the "Sangh Parivar".
BJP is of the view that Naxalism and terrorism are the legacy of Congress rule.
BJP is of the opinion that women's reservation bill should be brought before Parliament at once and if need be, adding one-third additional seats in the Parliament can also be considered.
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 Wikinfo | Bharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party (or BJP) is one of the largest political parties in India.
The party is the political wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
The BJP considers itself to be a Hindutva, that is Hindu nationalist, party.
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 Bharatiya Janata Party, India
I have not observed these parties too closely but I know that the symbol is usually a simple monochrome pictorial device on the ballot paper for the benefit of illiterate voters.
Flag: The Flag of the Party shall comprise of two vertical colours- saffron and green, in the ratio of 2:1 with the election symbol of the Party in blue colour in the middle of the saffron portion equal to half of its size.
There was recently an important debate, at least internal to the party, on the possible "saffronizing" of the flag of the Hindu party BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party).
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 Bharatiya Janata Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BJP and its supporters feel India must remain vigilant against threats from Pakistan, the People's Republic of China, and elsewhere.
The Party aims at establishing a democratic state which guarantees to all citizens irrespective of caste, creed or sex, political, social and economic justice, equality of opportunity and liberty of faith and expression.
As of 2006, the BJP rules the Indian states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, the states of Bihar, Nagaland and Orissa through its National Democratic Alliance partners.
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 Bharatiya Janata Party
According to the party this is in consonance with the root meaning of the word Hindu by which the Arabs referred to all people inhabiting India.
In 2002, Abdul Kalam, architect of the Indian nuclear programme, was nominated by the BJP in spite of being a Muslim to become President of India and he won the subsequent elections for the post.
On July 14, 2004, the BJP announced that it would oppose the proposed hike in sectoral caps for foreign direct investment in the insurance, civil aviation and telecom sectors.
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 India - The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Rise of Hindu Nationalism
Under Advani's leadership, the BJP appealed to Hindu activists by criticizing measures it construed as pandering to minorities and advocating the repeal of the special status given to the Muslim majority state of Jammu and Kashmir.
The party was particularly successful in Uttar Pradesh, where it increased its share of the vote from 7.6 percent (eight seats) in 1989 to 35.3 percent (fifty seats) in 1991, and in Gujarat, where its votes and seats climbed from 30 percent (twelve seats) to 52 percent (twenty seats).
In the spring of 1995, the BJP won state elections in Gujarat and became the junior partner of a coalition with Shiv Sena (Army of Shivaji--Shivaji Bhonsle was a seventeenth-century Maratha guerrilla leader who kept Mughal armies at bay) in Maharashtra.
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 India's Bharatiya Janata Party win key election : India World
The BJP won 110 seats in the 224-member state legislature stopping just three seats short of a simple majority, while Sonia Gandhi's Congress Party won 80 and the Janata Dal (S) won 28, according to Election Commission data.
The results come as a boost for the BJP which is now set to form its first government in a southern state without entering an alliance with other parties.
BJP sources said a few seats would not deter the party from forming a government and the party's BS Yeddyurappa would be sworn in as chief minister on Wednesday.
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 Riding the Elephant Bharatiya Janata Party «
The BJP, which started defense and nuclear talks with the US when it was in power from 1998-2004, has traditionally been seen as more pro-business than Congress, which comes from a Socialist background and built India’s Cold War alliance with the former Soviet Union.
BJP leaders have begun to say that they are prepared to back the deal if they receive certain assurances about the security of India’s nuclear weapons.
Rajnath Singh, BJP president, set the line yesterday when he said the BJP is ready to have talks with the government, and a parliamentary debate, on the deal.
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 Reengineering of BJP
But not even the most loyal BJP supporter is confident of being able to win the next general election on the strength of the performance of the Central Government.
There can be no doubt that the old men controlling BJP today have sacrificed their lives and have built the party to the level to which it has reached.
BJP will have to either discover someone capable of acting as such a consultant or else create someone who can fulfill this responsibility.
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 Bharatiya Janata Party, India
I have not observed these parties too closely but I know that the symbol is usually a simple monochrome pictorial device on the ballot paper for the benefit of illiterate voters.
Flag: The Flag of the Party shall comprise of two vertical colours- saffron and green, in the ratio of 2:1 with the election symbol of the Party in blue colour in the middle of the saffron portion equal to half of its size.
There was recently an important debate, at least internal to the party, on the possible "saffronizing" of the flag of the Hindu party BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party).
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/in}bjp.html   (637 words)

  
 Bharatiya Janata Party - dKosopedia
Bharatiya Janata Party, the "Indian National Party", most often referred to by its acronym as the BJP is one of the two major national political parties in India.
On January 2, 2006, 55 year old Rajnath Singh assumed formal leadership of the BJP from Krishna Advani, a year and a half after the lost power in general elections.
The party's senior leader, former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has announced that he is retiring from active politics.
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 India's Congress party concedes defeat in Gujarat elections - CNN.com
Bharatiya Janata Party workers in Ahmadabad run to celebrate the party's victory in the Gujarat elections.
Singhvi was speaking after election officials said the BJP was leading in 117 constituencies for the 182-seat state assembly.
For the BJP, it was a crucial fight in one of their last remaining strongholds amid predictions that their Hindu nationalist policies were a spent force.
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 Twenty Five Years Of Bharatiya Janata Party By Ram Puniyani
In due course it dissolved itself into the coalition of forces which came up as Janata Party, which romped to victory in the elections held after the emergency was lifted.
Later some constituents of Janata party asked the Jansangh component to severe its ties from the RSS, the one which stands for Hindu Rashtra, for the principles which are totally antithetical to the ones of democracy, to social and gender justice and affirmative action for weaker sections of society.
BJP belongs to the latter category as it is the political child of RSS, for whom Rashtra, nation, means Hindus.
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 Advani's party
THE new team of office-bearers chosen by Bharatiya Janata Party president Moppuvarappu Venkaiah Naidu was, at its first meeting at the party's central office in New Delhi on July 13, addressed by a special invitee who, under the terms of the party's conventions and constitution, had no specific role to perform there.
He said he would act as a link between the party and the government, the lack of which is seen as the reason for the party's debacle in the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal and Punjab and the municipal council elections in Delhi.
This despite the fact that the BJP suffered an ignominious defeat in the Assembly elections and is now trapped in a potentially damaging arrangement in which it plays second fiddle to the Bahujan Samaj Party.
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 Bharatiya Janata Party - Andhra Pradesh - Home
The Party aims at establishing a democratic state which guarantees to all citizens irrespective of caste, creed or sex, political, social and economic justice, equality of opportunity and liberty of faith and expression.
The Party shall bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of India and to the principles of socialism, secularism and democracy and would uphold the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India.
According to BJP philosophy human being is a mix of body, heart, intelligence and soul (tana, mana, buddhi and atma).
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 Bhartiya Janta Party,BJP,India
Jana Sangha was a political party founded in 1951 which later came to be known as Bhartiya Janata Party.
In 1996 it emerged as a single largest party in a hung parliament and then in 1999 came into power as a part of NDA Alliance under the leadership of Shri.
The aim of the party is to establish a democratic state guaranteeing equality of opportunity and liberty of faith and expression.
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 December 16, 2002
The party's greatest gains came in areas where rioting took place last spring, and where tensions were high.
Its state party president was a former legislator for the Bharatiya Janata Party, and it avoided campaigning among Muslims.
The election campaign laid bare the divisions in the Hindu nationalist family of organizations, of which the party is merely one element.
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