It later allied itself with the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) over the common issue of Hindu Nationalism which both parties believed in.

It is allied with the nationalistic Bharatiya Janata Party.

The two largest political parties have been the INC and the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ).

Between 1996 and 1998, there was a period of political flux with the government being formed first by the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) followed by a left-leaning United Front coalition.

The Bharatiya Janata Party, the party with the second largest number of MPs in the 15th Lok Sabha, has an image of being pro-Hindu.

The well known Bharatiya Janata Party encourages a free market economy.

** Official Bharatiya Janata Party Web Site

Akhand Bharat is another irridentist call for " undivided India " to include Pakistan and Bangladesh into India to form a Hindu Rashtra raised by mainstream Indian political organization Vishva Hindu Parishad ( VHP ), Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ( RSS ) and Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ).

Such views has been promoted by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ), which favours a decentralized central government in India.

Gradually the party moved from solely advocating a pro-Marathi ideology, to one supporting a broader Hindu nationalist agenda as it aligned itself with the Bharatiya Janata Party.

* May 17 – 28 – Atal Bihari Vajpayee, leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, is elected the new prime minister of India, replacing P. V. Narasimha Rao of the Indian National Congress.

" He was responding to a call for attention from Rajiv Pratap Rudy of the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ).

, the current governor is Ram Naresh Yadav, and the chief minister is Shivraj Singh Chouhan of the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ).

The dominant political parties in the state are the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) and the Indian National Congress.

The term " family values " has been used as a buzzword by right-wing parties such as the Republican Party in the United States, the Family First Party in Australia, the Conservative party in the United Kingdom and the Bharatiya Janata Party in India to describe support for traditional families, and opposition to the changes the modern world has made in how families live.

Kalam was elected the President of India in 2002, defeating Lakshmi Sahgal and was supported by both the Indian National Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party, the major political parties of India.

The politics in the city is dominated by three political parties: the Indian National Congress ( INC ), the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ), and the Janata Dal ( Secular ) ( JDS ).

* Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ), India

The sangh comprises organizations such as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ( RSS ), Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ), Bajrang Dal, and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad.

A prominent Indian political party, the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) ( BJP ) is closely associated with a group of organisations that advocate Hindutva.

The party is not part of the Sangh Parivar but is associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party.

When Janata government collapsed, Vajpayee renamed his former party Jana Sangh as Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ).

Vajpayee joined many of his Bharatiya Jana Sangh and Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh colleagues, particularly his long-time friends Lal Krishna Advani and Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, to found the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) in 1980.

Examples of political parties independent from the Sangh's influence include Prafull Goradia's Akhil Bharatiya Jana Sangh and Uma Bharti's Bharatiya Janshakti Party.

After the Janata Party split in 1980, it was succeeded by the Bharatiya Janata Party, which is one of India's largest political parties today.

The Samajwadi Party was one of several parties that emerged when the Janata Dal ( People's League ), India's primary opposition party prior to the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ), fragmented into several regional parties.

" For the 1971 election, the Congress ( O ), Samyukta Socialist Party and the Bharatiya Jana Sangh had formed a coalition called the " Grand Alliance " to oppose Indira Gandhi and the Congress ( R ), but failed to have an impact ; Indira's Congress ( R ) won a large majority in the 1971 elections and her popularity increased significantly after India's victory in the war of 1971 against Pakistan.

The leaders of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Jana Sangh rallied India's middle-class merchants, traders and conservative Hindus.

She is a member of India's Bharatiya Janata Party and was nominated member by the party in Rajya Sabha, the upper House of parliament during 2003 – 2009.

Also the widow of another great-grandson Sanjay Gandhi, Mrs Maneka Gandhi as well as her son Varun Gandhi are member's of India's Parliament representing the main opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ).

* The Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ), a nationalist political party of India which claims to be at the forefront of India's cultural nationalism, uses the lotus as its election symbol.

In 1980, the BJS transformed into the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ), which is today India's largest party aside from the Congress.

File: Nitin gadkari ( 1 ). jpg | Nitlin Gadkari, leader of India's centre-right Bharatiya Janata Party.

Arun Jaitley ( born 18 December 1952 ) is a prominent Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ), which is currently the principal Opposition party in India.

He faced stiff opposition from other equally strong originations within Sangh Parivar such as Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, Bharatiya Kisan Sangh.

A former president of the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ), which is currently the major opposition party in the Indian Parliament.

It's stated ideology has made it stay away from any alliances with Bharatiya Janata Party which is another National Party at the centre currently in opposition.

The leader of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ), Bangaru Laxman, has already left his position, but the departures fail to calm opposition parties, who continue to stall the workings of parliament for a third day on March 16.

From 2002 to 2004, he was the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which is currently the opposition party in the Parliament of India.

When the State of Emergency was lifted and new elections called in 1977, opposition political parties such as the Congress ( O ), Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Bharatiya Lok Dal as well as defectors from the Congress ( R ) joined to form the Janata party, which won a sweeping majority in the Indian Parliament.

Since the failure of the United Front, CPRM formed the People's Democratic Front, as a united opposition to GNLF in the Darjeeling hills, together with Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League, Indian National Congress, Gorkha National Liberation Front ( C. K.

It is allied with the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ), which is currently in opposition in Goa and in the national government.

After the Emergency, the Socialist Party joined with a number of other groups to form the Bharatiya Lok Dal, which fused in 1977 into Janata Party as an omnibus opposition to Congress Party rule.

Later the same year, INC ( O ) merged with the much larger Bharatiya Lok Dal and other parties to form the Janata Party as a more united opposition to Indira's rule.

* February 24: The opposition party Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) claims that this late release of information was orchestrated by the Congress government to avoid embarrassment to Sonia Gandhi during the ongoing state elections in Punjab and Uttaranchal.

The major party of the religious right, Bharatiya Janata Party, since its foundation in 1980 has won several elections, and after a defeat in 2004 remains the leading force of opposition against the current Congress Party government.