In 1998, the BJP formed the National Democratic Alliance ( NDA ) with several other parties and became the first non-Congress government to complete a full five-year term.

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.

In 1998, the BJP formed the National Democratic Alliance with smaller regional parties, and became the first non-INC and coalition government to complete a full five-year term.

Also, there is a strong following of other parties, such as Congress, TDP ( Telugu desam party ) with both Hindu and Muslim support, and the TRS party, formed with the intention of separation of the Telangana region ( the part of the Nizams ' state which was merged with Andhra Pradesh ) as a State, Telangana Rashtra Samiti ( TRS ), Praja Rajyam Party ( PRP ), a party formed by the Telugu film star Chiranjeeevi, in 2011 PRP merged with INC, Lok Satta, BJP which gained only two seats out of 294 at the 2009 Elections for Andhra Pradesh.

After the fall of the government, his party came out of Janata Party in 1980, and formed the Bharatiya Janata Party or the BJP.

Later, when BJP formed a government in India under Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Joshi served as the Human Resource Development Minister in the cabinet.

The AIADMK formed an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) and Vaiko's Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam ( MDMK ), another breakaway faction of the DMK, during the parliamentary elections in 1998.

Fernandes broke away from the erstwhile Janata Dal and formed the Samata Party in 1994, which became a key ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ), a party which is the current form of the erstwhile Bharatiya Jana Sangh.

BJP formed a short-lived government in the 1996 general elections along with the Samata Party and other allies.

After the collapse of the second BJP-led coalition government, BJP and its allies formed a 24 party alliance called National Democratic Alliance ( NDA ), which became the first non-Congress coalition government in post-independence India to survive a full five-year term ( 1999 – 2004 ).

In 1997, Patnaik split from Janata Dal over its failure to ally with the BJP, and formed the BJD in December 1997.

BVP was formed ahead of the Lok Sabha 1999 elections by Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) Rajya Sabha MP, Janardan Yadav.

GPC formed a coalition government in the state together with Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ), with Sardinha as Chief Minister.

It formed a coalition state government with Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) and Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party, with de Souza as Chief Minister.

This front was basically formed by groups who were dissatisfied that Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) had put NDA aside in Tamil Nadu and instead had launched a pure BJP-AIADMK front in the elections.

The BJP was invited to form the government, and Atal Bihari Vajpayee formed a cabinet, but could not convince any other groups to support it and lost the confidence motion.

Sikkim United Democratic Alliance is an alliance of political parties in Sikkim, India, that was formed in February 2004 by Sikkim Himali Rajya Parishad, Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ), Indian National Congress, Organization of Sikkimese Unity ( OSU ), Nepali Bhutia Lepcha and National Liberation Front ( unclear whether this refers to Sikkim National Liberation Front, Gorkha National Liberation Front or the same organization as NEBULA ) as a joint political front.

Jharkhand was formed in 2000, with the BJP forming the first government under Babulal Marandi.

However, in the first ever state assembly elections in 2002, the party won only 4 out of 70 seats, and was outmaneuvered by the Indian National Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ), both despite being late comers to the separate state movement, succeeded in capturing its momentum for electoral gain and formed governments in the state

At the February 2007 state elections, the party won 3 of the 70 seats, but because neither the Congress nor the BJP received a majority, the UKD took an important role in forming the next government as it chose to support the BJP, which was much closer to having a majority compared to the Congress Party, and the BJP formed the government in March 2007

The 2004 Indian elections saw the INC winning the largest number of seats to form a government leading the United Progressive Alliance, and supported by left-parties and those opposed to the BJP.

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

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

In the ensuing general elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) emerged as the single largest party, leading the largest pre-election coalition, the National Democratic Alliance ( NDA ), and the coalition leader Vajpayee staked his claim to form the government, though at that point he did not have a majority.

The BJP headed the national government along with a coalition of parties of the NDA from 1998 to 2004, under the premiership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, making it the first non-Congress government to last the full term in office.

The BJP was a strong critic of the Congress government, and while it opposed the Sikh militancy that was rising in the state of Punjab, it also blamed Indira Gandhi for divisive and corrupt politics that fostered the militancy at national expense.

The VHP was banned by the government, and many BJP leaders, including L. K.

The BJP stands for strong national defense, small government, and some Quasi-market economic policies, but Integral Humanism has been its core philosophy and identity ever since its inception.

Making it the second-largest ally in the new BJP led coalition government.

The BJP supported this government from the outside.

In 1992, two years after Advani ended his yatra, despite assurances given by the Kalyan Singh led BJP Government to the Supreme Court, the Babri Masjid was demolished by the " karsevaks " with alleged complicity of the Kalyan Singh government.

The BJP states the purpose of Jan Chetna Yatra is to mobilise public opinion against corruption of the UPA government and put BJP agenda of good governance and clean politics before the people of India.

The Left Front ( under E. M. S. Namboodiripad and Indrajit Gupta ) and the BJP ( under L. K. Advani ) declined to serve in the government, preferring to support it from outside.

The Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) government headed by Kalyan Singh sought vote of confidence when the violence and unruly scenes took place in the assembly.

In 2009, Delhi lokayukta investigated a complaint filed by advocate Sunita Bhardwaj, a BJP worker, saying that Dikshit misused Rs 3. 5 crore received from the Central government under the Jawahar Lal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission for Rajiv Ratan Awas Yojana to give out personal advertisements.

the BSP legislative party split and kept a BJP government in power for the next four-and-a-half years.

Advani declared that Vajpayee would become the Prime Minister of India if the BJP won in the May 1996 parliamentary elections.

In the 1996 general elections, the BJP emerged as the single largest party in the Lok Sabha.

Advani declared that Vajpayee would be the Prime Minister of India if the BJP won the next parliamentary elections scheduled for May 1996.

After the 1996 general elections, the BJP became the single largest party and was consequently invited by the President to form the Government.

Fernandes later served in the opposition along with BJP during the two United Front governments ( 1996 – 1998 ) led by Janata Dal ministers H. D. Deve Gowda and Inder Kumar Gujral.

He was elected to the Lok Sabha-the lower house of the Parliament of India-as a candidate of the Bhartiya Janata Party ( BJP ) in 1996.

In 1996 Barnala once again came close to becoming Prime Minister. In 1996 General Elections with no political party getting mandate it was a good time for a regional party to have its Prime Minister. Regional Parties accounted about 80 MP's in the Lok Sabha The Assam Gana Parishad of Praful Kumar Mahanta and TDP of Chandra Babu Naidu including The Left parties zeroed on Barnala but last minute Barnala's parent party SAD led by Barnala's supposedly close friend Parkash Singh Badal without informing Barnala joined hands with the BJP hence Barnala yet again missed being Prime Minister.

He has also dabbled in Indian politics, and was won election in parliamentary candidate for the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) from West Bengal in 1991, 1996, 1999 and 2004 from Jadavpur.

That his popularity was undiminished can be seen from the 1996 result: he defeated his BJP rival H Kumawat by almost 160, 000 votes.