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Modi’s Party Faces Stunning Defeat in New Delhi Elections In India’s capital, Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party suffered a major defeat. By Ashok Sharma for The Diplomat.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (abbreviated BJP) is one of the two major political parties in India. (The second being the Indian National Congress).Since the Indian elections in 2014, the BJP has 303 of the 542 seats in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India and 78 of the 238 seats in Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India.
The BJP's origin lies in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, formed in 1951 by Syama Prasad Mukherjee. After the State of Emergency in 1977, the Jana Sangh merged with several other parties to form the Janata Party; it defeated the incumbent Congress party in the 1977 general election.
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This essay will argue that the reasons behind the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) rise to national prominence in India during the 1990’s can be traced to the growing insecurity that the Hindu majority experienced during this period.
Bharatiya Janata Party in 2011. Speaking at a program in Aurangabad, Nitin Gadkari says BJP stands in a better chance in the India General Elections, 2014 because people had lost faith in the UPA government due to its wrong policies that have led to corruption and price rise.
The Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a bigger majority in a general election in May, but it has lost a string of state elections since then.