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Encyclopedia > Bharatiya Jan Sangh

Bharatiya Jana Sangh is the old name of Bharatiya Janata Party of India. It was started by Dr.Syama Prasad Mookerjee (also spelt as Shyama Prasad Mukherjee) on 21st October 1951 at Delhi. The symbol of the party in Indian elections was the lamp. It won three seats in the parliamentary elections in 1952, with Dr. Mookerjee as one of the winning candidates.


After the party's bad showing in 1984, it was re-launched as the Bharatiya Janata Party, which was the governing party of India from 1998 until 2004 when the Congress Party won an upset election.




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Jan Sangh: The BJP's Predecessor By Bipan Chandra 1998 (2361 words)
Jan Sangh: The BJP's Predecessor By Bipan Chandra 1998
Ostensibly, the Jan Sangh was a party in its own right and under Mookerjee it did enjoy a certain degree of independence, but even then its spearhead was the RSS and its carefully- chosen cadre who were put in crucial positions in the new party.
The high watermark of the Jan Sangh before it became the BJP was reached in 1967 when it won 35 seats with 9.35 per cent of the popular vote, with the Hindu Mahasabha and the RRP having disappeared as political forces.
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Bharatiya Janata Party is today the most prominent member of the family of organisations known as the "Sangh Parivar".
This was the context in which Shri Guruji blessed the birth of Bhartiya Jana Sangh under the leadership of Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee in 1951.
To the professional detractors of Jana Sangh JP's categorical response was: "If Jana Sangh is communal then I am also communal." As the opposition parties won election after by-election, the cry ran through the country: "Sinhasan khali karo, ki janata aati hai".
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