Authors: Uma Shankar, Dr. Rakesh Kumar Jaiswal
Abstract: Following the fall of the Janata Party administration in 1980, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) became a significant political force in India. Its origins can be discovered in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, an older political group that Shyama Prasad Mukherjee founded in 1951. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) had an ideological effect on the Jana Sangh, which supported cultural nationalism. In 1977, a number of opposition groups banded together to establish the Janata Party, which briefly held national power following the Indian Emergency. But ideological disagreements, especially over the RSS’s position, caused the Janata Party to disintegrate. The Bharatiya Janata Party was founded in April 1980 by former Jana Sangh leaders including Lal Krishna Advani and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The BJP first concentrated on the ideas of “Gandhian socialism,” but it eventually began to place more of an emphasis on Hindu identity politics and cultural nationalism. The party grew quickly in the late 1980s and early 1990s, especially during the Ram Janmabhoomi agitation. The BJP became one of India’s two main political parties as a result of this. The party eventually established national and state governments and rose to prominence in Indian politics.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19247777
