BJP FOUNDATION DAY

BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY  IS ONE OF THE MAJOR POLITICAL PARTY OF INDIA . IT HAS BEEN THE RULING PARTY OF INDIA SINCE 2014 UNDER PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA DAMODAR DAS MODI. IT HAS A CLOSE LINK WITH RASHTRIYA SWAYAMSEVAK SANGHA (RSS). THE ORIGIN OF THE PARTY IS FROM THE BHARATIYA JANA SANGHA , WHICH WAS FOUNDED BY SHYAM PRASAD MUKHERJEE IN 1951. AFTER STATE OF EMERGENCY IN 1977,JANA SANGHA MERGED WITH SEVERAL OTHER PARTIES TO FORM JANATA PARTY .IT DEFEATED THE CONGRESS PARTY IN 1977 . IT DISSOLVED IN 1980. IN THE FOLLOWING YEAR , THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JANATA PARTY BANNED THE MEMBERS OF PARTY FOR DUAL MEMBERSHIP IN RSS AND THE JANATA PARTY . SO THE FORMER MEMBERS OF JANA SANGHA CREATED A NEW POLITICAL PARTY , THE BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY. THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF WAS  ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE .

BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY  WON ONLY 2 SEATS IN 1984 ELECTION. AFTER THE FAILURE IN THE ELECTION , LAL KRISHNA ADVANI WAS CHOSED AS THE PRESIDENT OF BJP. A COALITION OF REGIONAL PARTIES FORMED THE GOVERNMENT IN 1996 BUT THIS IS SHORT LIVED. THEN BJP CONTESTED THE ELECTION LEADING A COALITION NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE (NDA) WHICH CONTAINS ALLIES LIKE SAMATA PARTY, SHIROMANI AKALI DAL , BIJU JANATA DAL AND ALL INDIA ANNA DRAVIDA MUNNETRE  KHAZAGAM . BJP WON THE ELECTION AND VAJPAYEE RETURNED AS PRIME MINISTER . BUT THE COALITION RUPTURED IN 1999, WHEN LEADER OF AIADMK WITHDREW HER SUPPORT. ON OCTOBER 13 ,1999 NDA WON 303 SEATS WITHOUT AIADMK AND NDA GOVERNMENT LASTED ITS FULL TERM. BUT NDA SUFFERED A DEFEAT IN 2004 GENERAL ELECTION. THE UNITED PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE SUCCEEDED TO WON THE ELECTION. AFTER THAT IN 2014 GENERAL ELECTION BJP WON 282 SEATS LEADING NDA TO ATALLY OF 336 SEATS IN LOK SABHA. NARENDRA MODI WAS SWORN IN AS 14TH PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA. SOME FOUNDER MEMBERS OF BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY WERE NOT AMONG US. ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE AND LAL KRISHNA ADVANI WERE THE FOUNDER MEMBERS WHO WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED. 

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