Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh (All India Popular Union) is a political party in India. The party claims to be the authentic Bharatiya Jan Sangh, which is the precursor of the Bharatiya Janata Party. ABJS is led by general secretary Poonam Rajpurohit. The politics of ABJS is Hindu nationalism. A political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government. ... Bharatiya Jana Sangh is the old name of Bharatiya Janata Party of India. ... The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; Indian Peoples Party) is one of the largest political parties in India. ... Hindutva (Hinduness, a word coined by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in his 1923 pamphlet entitled Hindutva: Who is a Hindu? ) is used to describe movements advocating Hindu nationalism. ...
ABJS presses for rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits and scrapping of Article 370 of the Constitution. The Kashmiri Pandits (Hindus) are the original inhabitants of the Valley of Kashmir. ...
AkhilBharatiyaJanSangh (अखिल भारतीय जनसंघ, All India Popular Union) is a Hindu nationalist political party in India.
The party claims to be the authentic BharatiyaJanSangh, which is the precursor of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
ABJS was founded by Balraj Madhok, a former general secretary of BJS who had been expelled from that party in 1973, after he left the Janata Party in 1979.
It has slowly gained prominence and political influence, giving rise to the creation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, formerly the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, and considered to be the political wing of the Sangh Parivar movement) to head the central government of India.
Between 1975 and 1977, the RSS launched a civil disobedience movement, to reject the national emergency and postponement of elections by Prime Minister and Congress President Indira Gandhi.
The Jana Sangh was an integral part of the Janata Party coalition that defeated Indira Gandhi's Congress in a landslide in 1977, but upon the collapse of that coalition, it emerged as the BJP in 1980.