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	Bharatiya Lok Dal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The BLD was formed at the end of 1974 through the fusion of seven parties opposed to the autocratic rule of Indira Gandhi, including the Swatantra Party, the Utkal Congress, the Bharatiya Kranti Dal, and the Socialist Party.
		The leader of the BLD was Charan Singh.
		In 1977, the BLD combined with the Jan Sangh and the Indian National Congress (Organization) to form the Janata Party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bharatiya_Lok_Dal (177 words)

	India - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		The Lok Sabha consists of up to 550 members directly elected by universal adult suffrage (545 in 2004), and up to two members who may be appointed by the president to represent the Anglo-Indian community.
		Members of the Lok Sabha normally serve for five years, the statutory limit for the duration of the house.
		In 1988 Janata Dal (People’s Party) was formed by a merger of the Janata Party, Lok Dal, and Jan Morcha.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761557562___32/India.html (1332 words)

	Janata Dal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Janata Dal was formed on the 11 October 1988 at 1:18' PM IST at Bangalore, India.
		A slogan commonly used for the Janata Dal is "Dal badal badal ke dal dal kar diya" i.e.
		The major ones included the Bharatiya Lok Dal led by Charan Singh, the Congress (O) led by Morarji Desai, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Swatantra Party and the Socialists.
	srath.com /world/india/janata_dal.htm (1204 words)

	India - GOVERNMENT
		Parliament consists of a bicameral legislature, the Lok Sabha (House of the People--the lower house) and the Rajya Sabha (Council of States--the upper house).
		Singh's public suggestion that the prime minister had not treated the office of the president with proper dignity and the persistent rumors that Singh was plotting the prime minister's ouster contributed to the erosion of public confidence in Rajiv Gandhi that ultimately led to his defeat in the 1989 elections.
		Public support for the Akali Dal government, however, was soon undermined by Rajiv Gandhi's failure to fulfill his commitments, such as the transfer of Chandigarh to Punjab, as enunciated in the Gandhi-Longowal Accord.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/india/GOVERNMENT.html (18544 words)

	How many seats did the Shiv Sena win in 1999? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Lok Dal's charka-haldar (farmer with plough in a wheel) was chosen.
		Which is why Election Commission annals still record every Janata Party candidate (be it Morarji Desai of the Congress-O or Atal Bihari Vajpayee of the Jan Sangh or Charan Singh of the Lok Dal or George Fernandes of the Socialist Party) as a BLD candidate.
		Shripad Amrut Dange was one of India's best-known Communists, and leader of the Communist Party of India after the CPI split into the CPI and CPI-M. Dange won the Bombay South Central seat in the heart of the city's labour area twice, in 1957 and 1967.
	www.rediff.com /election/2004/apr/14equiz.htm (1492 words)

	HardNews - A many-splintered thing
		December 1989 — In alliance with the BJP (a splinter group of the Janata Party, formed in April 1980), the Janata Dal defeats Congress (I) in the 1989 parliamentary elections.
		The remaining faction of the party is named as Janata Dal (United), which joins hands with the BJP to become a part of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
		Janata Dal (U) may not have remained the largest offshoot of the Janata parivar, but it still has a big say in national politics due to the number of heavyweights it has within its ranks.
	www.hardnewsmedia.com /sep2004/ppols.php (1145 words)

	Elections '99
		The other conglomeration is of the Sarb Hind Shiromani Akali Dal of Mr Gurcharan Singh Tohra, in alliance with the BSP of Mr Kanshi Ram and several factions of the SAD.
		The newly born Akali Dal led by former SGPC chief, Gurcharan Singh Tohra has an alliance with the BSP and is contesting Patiala, Ludhiana, Batinda, Ropar, Tarn Taran, Gurdaspur, and Faridkot seats.
		The Akali Dal and the BJP besides the two other candidates the parties helped to win and thus sweep the last Lok Sabha poll had trounced the rivals in all but 20 of the 117 Assembly segments.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99aug19/head6.htm (3977 words)

	The Hindu : An arena for high-profile leaders
		Nanjesh Gowda of the Bharatiya Lok Dal (BLD) defeated Mr.
		In the 1996 election, Y.N. Rudresh Gowda of the Janata Dal defeated S.M. Anand of Congress (Mr.
		It is learnt that the Bharatiya Janata Party, which was searching for a suitable candidate, is planning to field the former MLA and former MLC, B.V. Kari Gowda.
	www.hindu.com /2004/03/11/stories/2004031110770400.htm (561 words)

	AllRefer.com - India - Opposition Parties - The Rise and Decline of "Janata Politics" \| Indian Information Resource
		The Janata Party was made up of the Congress (O), the Jana Sangh, the Bharatiya Lok Dal (Indian People Party), the Samajwadi Party (Socialist Party), a handful of imprisoned Congress dissidents, and the Congress for Democracy--a group led by Scheduled Caste leader Jagjivan Ram that had splintered off from the Congress during the election campaign.
		The Janata Dal and the Samajwadi Janata Party declined after the fall of the Chandra Shekhar government.
		Although the Janata Dal won state elections in Karnataka in 1994 and Bihar in the spring of 1995, its poor showing in most other states gave the impression that its support was receding to a few regional bastions.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/india/india160.html (1514 words)

	A legacy of duplicity
		THROUGHOUT its 25 years of existence, the Bharatiya Janata Party has maintained that it is actually a political-ideological-organisational continuation of the Bharatiya Jan Sangh (BJS), which was formed under the leadership Shyama Prasad Mookerjee in 1951.
		This association finally led to the formation of the Janata Party in 1977, with the merger of the BJS with parties such as the Bharatiya Lok Dal (BLD), the Congress(O) and the Socialist Party and Congress rebels such as Chandra Shekhar.
		The BJP got 31 seats in the 1980 Lok Sabha polls and a mere two seats in 1984, when a pro-Congress wave swept the country in the wake of the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2301/stories/20060127004502700.htm (1531 words)

	The Hindu : A Congress stronghold wrested by the BJP
		Bidar is one of the four constituencies reserved for the Scheduled Castes in the State and is known to re-elect its representatives.
		The constituency is made of eight assembly segments — Aurad, Bidar, Bhalki, Humnabad, Basavkalyan, and Hulsoor in Bidar district, and Aland and Kamalapur in Gulbarga district.
		Veerappa was sent to the Lok Sabha as the BJP nominee in 1991.
	www.hindu.com /2004/02/25/stories/2004022507430400.htm (522 words)

	The Tribune...Saturday Plus Head
		HE stakes are high for supremacy in the millennium’s last battle of ballot for the lone but prestigious Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat, which has a tradition of returning MPs of the ruling party, be it the Congress, the Janata Party, the Janata Dal or the Bharatiya Janata Party.
		In Chandigarh local issues always dominate in the Lok Sabha elections though the electorate normally goes with the national trends while deciding the fate of the candidates.
		Of other candidates in the fray are Colonel Harsharan Singh of the Rashtriya Raksha Dal who has made a serious attempt to bring defence personnel, both retired and serving, and their families together.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99sep04/saturday/head3.htm (946 words)

	A 'united' Dal and a divided NDA
		If the Lok S hakti or the Samata Party wished to share with the Sharad Yadav faction, the seats allotted to them, they were free to do so, he maintained.
		The Janata Dal won 9 per cent of the votes polled and one seat in Bihar, and in Karnataka its voteshare was 21.7 per cent and it won three seats.
		In the first place, the Janata Dal had been degenerating in the last two years and there was no way it could have held on to its support base, he argued.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1617/16170130.htm (1522 words)

	India - Search View - MSN Encarta
		It is represented by the group of organizations collectively known as the Sangh Parivar, including the staunchly Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), and the ultra-extremist Shiv Sena.
		The rise to power of the parliamentary wing of the movement, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in recent years, albeit as leader of a wide-ranging coalition called the National Democratic Alliance, has increased the influence of Hindutva ideology.
		Gandhi’s personal charisma remained strong despite the Emergency years, and Congress (I) soon won elections in the south and in Maharashtra; in April Congress (I) was named the main opposition party in the Lok Sabha (lower house).
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761557562__1/India.html (18050 words)

	Choudhary Charan Singh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The leader of the Bharatiya Lok Dal, a major constituent of the Janata coalition, he was disappointed in his ambition to become Prime Minister in 1977 by Jayaprakash Narayan's choice of Morarji Desai.
		The day before the Lok Sabha was due to meet for the first time the Indian National Congress withdrew their support from his Bharatiya Lok Dal Government.
		He continued to lead the Lok Dal in opposition till his death in 1987, when he was succeeded as party president by his son Ajit Singh.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charan_Singh (1114 words)

	India (10/06)
		The Janata Dal, a union of opposition parties, then joined with the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the right and the Communists on the left to form the government.
		The Council of Ministers is responsible to the Lok Sabha.
		The Lok Sabha consists of 545 members, who serve 5-year terms; 543 are directly elected, and two are appointed.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3454.htm (6494 words)

	India Election 2004 - Overview
		In the 13th Lok Sabha, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Mr.
		Their vote share was 6.13 percent in 1989, 2.19 percent in 1991, 3.22 percent in 1996, 10.87 percent in 1998 and 3.22 percent in 1999.
		The sudden spurt in the number of seats won by the registered parties in 1998 and their vote share is explained by the fact that parties like BJD and Trinamool Congress which broke away from the Janata Dal and the Congress respectively were included in the list of registered parties.
	www.indiaonestop.com /Election2004/elecoverview04.html (873 words)

	Nationalist Congress Party (nationalist congress party resources) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		P.A. Sangma, a former trade union leader and the speaker of the Lok Sabha during the United Front government 1996-98, had together with Sharad Pawar revolted in 1999 against the election of the Italian-born widow of Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, as the Congress party leader.
		In the 1991 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP became the premier Opposition party, and the Congress government was a coalition one.
		Lok Sabha elections were again held in 1998, and the BJP again won the largest bloc of seats.
	1993.en.xanax-buy.be.cob-web.org:8888 /en/Nationalist+Congress+Party (7192 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Stalwarts meet their Waterloo in Madhya Pradesh
		Madhya Pradesh had proved to be a Waterloo in the Lok Sabha elections for many stalwarts, including former president Shanker Dayal Sharma during his Congress days, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Kanshi Ram and even renowned freedom fighter Acharya J B Kripalani.
		Janata Dal leader K D Deshmukh was defeated by an independent, Kankar Munjare from Balaghat in 1989 by a margin of about 10,000 votes.
		Senior tribal leader and former Union minister Arvind Netam, who had left the Congress to join the BSP recently, was defeated from his traditional base Kanker in 1977 by the Bharatiya Lok Dal candidate Adhan Singh by 53,000 votes.
	www.rediff.com /news/1998/jan/19mp.htm (783 words)

	India - Para imprimir - MSN Encarta
		El Lok Sabha está formado por 545 miembros elegidos por sufragio universal y dos miembros elegidos por el presidente para representar a la comunidad angloindia.
		Los miembros del Lok Sabha, por lo general, ocupan su puesto durante cinco años, el límite establecido para la duración de la cámara.
		A comienzos de 1977 el Congreso (O) se unió con otros tres partidos, Bharatiya Jsangh, Bharatiya Lok Dal y el Partido Socialista para formar el Janata Dal (Partido Popular), que obtuvo alrededor de la mitad de los escaños en el Lok Sabha en las elecciones de marzo de 1977.
	es.encarta.msn.com /text_761557562___0/India.html (18368 words)

	RS too will debate and vote on Gujarat-India-NEWS-The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		the decision by the rajya sabha chairman comes a day after lok sabha deputy speaker p m sayeed announcing a debate on the gujarat issue under rule 184.
		meanwhile, at the lok sabha, the bharatiya janata party is not losing any sleep over the forthcoming discussion under rule 184.
		sharad yadav's janata dal-united (6 mps) and ram vilas paswan's lok janshakti party (4 mps), who have been extremely critical of the modi government, are also expected to fall in line.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /Articleshow.asp?art_id=7849439 (724 words)

	AsiaMedia :: INDIA: Lok Sabha debates expelling stung MPs
		New Delhi --- Ten Lok Sabha MPs caught in a TV sting here were Friday expelled from the house for their "unbecoming conduct" in accepting money to raise questions in Parliament.
		Amidst a walkout by the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena, the Lok Sabha adopted by a voice vote a motion moved by Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee, leader of the house, to expel the 10 MPs, who had been asked to stay away from parliament when the scam broke Dec 12.
		The Lok Sabha on Friday came out in one voice to firmly deal with corruption, but was divided on the issue of summary expulsion of 10 members named in the cash-for-query scam.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article-southasia.asp?parentid=36188 (588 words)

	National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR)
		Held under the aegis of Akhil Bharatiya Valmiki Samaj, the meeting was attended by a large number of people from Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Delhi and other States.
		They demanded a CBI inquiry into the role of the local Bharatiya Janata Party MP, Kishan Singh Sangwan, who was allegedly behind the attack and full compensation to the victims.
		New Delhi: Pressure on UPA government to legislate on reservations in the private sector is growing, with Lok Sabha deputy speaker C S Atwal and former President K R Narayanan on Tuesday joining the chorus from the platform of a two-day national summit of nationwide Dalit organisations.
	www.dalits.org /dalitsinnews1.html (12473 words)

	INDIA: parliamentary elections Lok Sabha, 1989
		Elections were held for 525 seats in the Lok Sabha on the normal expiry of the members’ term of office.
		Of the 543 elective Lok Sabha seats, contests in 18 constituencies were postponed so that a total of 525 seats were filled in November.
		Opposing the ruling Indian National Congress (or Congress (I)) party of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was a five-party National Front national coalition formed in 1988 and led by Mr.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2145_89.htm (414 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Jharkhand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Papanna who hails from Rayagada district under Koraput Lok Sabha constituency is likely to get the BJD ticket for Koraput, a Congress bastion for over last 50 years.
		The high court judge had unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha polls in 1977 as a Bharatiya Lok Dal candidate.
		Before Papanna took the plunge, the only example he had before him was that of former chief justice of India, Ranganath Mishra who joined the Congress to be elected as a Rajya Sabha member in 1998.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040313/asp/jharkhand/story_2997862.asp (329 words)

	South Asian Media Net
		During this period there were two camps in the Congress: the Garam Dal, or Extremists (literally "hot faction"), and the Naram Dal, or Moderates (literally "soft faction");depending on their attitude towards the British.
		The National Front coalition that was formed consisted of the Janata Dal and a few smaller parties in the government, and had outside support from the BJP and the Communists.
		Amongst the larger splinter groups include the Rashtriya Janata Dal, which rules the state of Bihar, and the Janata Dal United Party, whose leader George Fernandes is India's Defense Minister.
	www.southasianmedia.net /profile/india/india_politicalparties.cfm (2451 words)

	Election 2004 - HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		If the Nehru-Gandhi family holds sway in neighbouring Amethi, Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency from where Congress President Sonia Gandhi is contesting cannot remain unaffected by the dynasty magic, though two defeats in recent past have made the party take enough precautions to close all the flanks.
		The ITI, with nearly 6,000 employees on its rolls, is among the last few industries surviving in the region, which witnessed a spate of projects and factories being launched in the seventies.
		In the aftermath of the Emergency, Indira Gandhi lost to Raj Narain, the Bharatiya Lok Dal candidate, in 1977.
	www.hindustantimes.com /2005/May/17/6996_707914,0016005500000004.htm (933 words)

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