For example, the Rashtriya Janata Dal ( translated as National People's Party ) has a vote bank among the Yadav and Muslim population of Bihar and the All India Trinamool Congress does not have any significant support outside West Bengal.

** The Congress Party gains a parliamentary majority in India after the defection of 10 Janata Dal party lawmakers.

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 ).

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

His name had been proposed initially by V. P. Singh, former Prime Minister and the then leader of the Janata Dal parliamentary party.

The Janata Dal and the Left Front had jointly declared him as their candidate, and this had later garnered support from the Congress under P. V. Narasimha Rao, leading to a unanimous decision on his election.

The Opposition parties ( including the Congress, the Left Front, Janata Dal ( Secular ), and various regional parties ) supported a second term for him, and Sonia Gandhi met him to request his candidature ; Vajpayee then met Narayanan, informed him that there was no consensus within the NDA on the question, and advised against his candidature.

This time, the BJP ( NDA ) had allied with the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam ( AIADMK ) and the Biju Janata Dal besides its existing allies, the Samata Party, the Shiromani Akali Dal and Shiv Sena.

* Janata Dal, a political party in India

After elections were called in 1977, the Janata Party was formed from the union of the Congress ( O ), Swatantra Party, Socialist Party of India, Bharatiya Jana Sangh and the Lok Dal.

In the elections of 1989, the combined might of the VP Singh led Janata Dal and the BJP managed to eat into the Congress's seats.

The BJS, joined forces with the Bharatiya Lok Dal, the Congress ( O ), and the Socialist Party, to form the Janata Party ( People's Party ).

The Left Democratic Front candidate, Rufus Daniel of the Janata Dal ( Secular ), came third.

The leader of the Bharatiya Lok Dal, a major constituent of the Janata coalition, he was disappointed in his ambition to become Prime Minister in 1977 by Jayaprakash Narayan's choice of Morarji Desai.

On 11 October 1988, the birthday of the original Janata coalition's spiritual leader Jayaprakash Narayan, the Janata Dal was formed by merger of Jan Morcha, Janata Party, Lok Dal and Congress ( S ), in order to bring together all the centrist parties opposed to the Rajiv Gandhi government, and V. P. Singh was elected the President of the Janata Dal.

The INC was out of power between 1977 and 1980, when the Janata Party won the election due to public discontent with the corruption ( promulgation of Emergency with stringent forces ) of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

In 1989, a Janata Dal-led National Front coalition, in alliance with the Left Front coalition, won the elections but managed to stay in power for only two years.

This rule was interrupted between 1977 to 1980, when the Janata Party coalition won the election owing to public discontent with the controversial state of emergency declared by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

In November – December 2003, the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) won three major state elections, fought mainly on development issues, without ideological campaigns.

The Janata Party won with a huge majority in 1977 and formed the government with Morarji Desai as Prime Minister.

Gandhi won with a landslide majority, retaining the family stronghold with a margin of over 100, 000 as the Congress unexpectedly defeated the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

The BJP won 18 out of 26 Lok Sabha Seats in the State and emerged as the single largest party in the Assembly, capturing 83 seats, as opposed to the Congress ' 68 and the Janata Dal ( Secular )' s 59.

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.

The Janata Morcha won the elections for the Vidhan Sabha ( State Legislature ) of the state of Gujarat on June 11, 1975.

On March 23, it was announced that the Janata party had won a sweeping victory, securing 43. 2 % of the popular vote and 271 seats.

Although the Congress for Democracy won 28 seats, Ram's standing as a national Dalit leader and moving a significant share of the Dalit vote to the Janata party and its allies won him considerable influence.

In contrast to the rest of the country, the Janata party won only six seats from India's southern states-none from the state of Kerala-where the Emergency had not caused political unrest.

Congress ( O ) veteran and Janata candidate Neelam Sanjiva Reddy won the presidential election to become the 6th President of India on July 25, 1977.

The government also called fresh elections in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, where the Janata party won 13 seats to the Congress ' 11, and the veteran Kashmiri politician Sheikh Abdullah returned to power after having been dismissed in 1953.

He then decided to shift his base to Bihar in 1989, when an anti-Congress wave was sweeping the country in the wake of the Bofors scandal, and won Muzaffarpur in the 1989 and 1991 general elections, He later joined the Janata Dal, a party which was formed from the Janata Party at Bangalore in August 1988.

Sidhu won on a Bharatiya Janata Party ticket from the Amritsar seat in the Indian general elections, 2004.

On being released in 1977, he became a member of the Janata Party and won election to Parliament for the first time on its ticket, and he held the world record for winning election by highest margin. http :// india. gov. in / govt / rajyasabhampbiodata. php? mpcode = 2169 He was re-elected to the 7th Lok Sabha in 1980 and 1984 from Hajipur constituency.

Later in the next election of 1978, he again contested from Charminar and won against Abdul Husain of Janata Party.

In that year his Janata Party won 151 of the 200 seats in the state assembly elections of Rajasthan and Shekhawat took over as the first non Congress Chief Minister of Rajasthan in 1977.

However, in 1989 an alliance between the BJP and the Janata Dal won all 25 of the Rajasthan seats in the Lok Sabha and also 140 seats in the Assembly.

In 2005 he won the ' Best Current Affairs Presenter ' for the third time since 1999 for his interview with the former Indian Law Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) General Secretary Arun Jaitley on Hardtalk India.

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.

Following the victory of the Janata Party in the 1977 general elections, he became the Minister for External Affairs in the Janata government headed by Morarji Desai.

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.

After the Janata Party's poor showing in the 1980 elections, the former Bharatiya Jana Sangh members left to form the Bharatiya Janata Party, which has been one of the two largest Indian political parties since 1989.

After Indira revoked the emergency on January 18, 1977 and announced elections, it was under JP's guidance that the Janata Party ( a vehicle for the broad spectrum of the anti-Indira Gandhi opposition ) was formed.

The National Front fought the elections in 1989 after coming to an electoral understanding with Bharatiya Janata Party and the Communist Left Front that served to unify the anti-Congress vote.

He became President of the state unit of Janata Dal in 1994 and was the driving force behind the victory of the party in the 1994 State Assembly elections.

In the 1991 mid-term parliamentary elections, Gujral contested from Patna constituency in Bihar against Samajwadi Janata Party ( Rashtriya ) candidate and then-Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha.

In the state assembly elections of February 1990, the alliance between the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party posed a stiff challenge to the Congress.

In general elections, 2009, it bagged 23 seats coming behind the Indian National Congress with 206 seats and the Bharatiya Janata Party with 116 seats.

* Biju Janata Dal-Orissa-Left the alliance just over a month before the 2009 elections.

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.

* 12 December – The Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) is returned to power with a landslide victory in state assembly elections in Gujarat.

* 27 April, 2 May and 7 May — In general elections the ruling Congress Party is defeated and the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) becomes the largest single party in parliament.

It was ultimately decided that the Congress for Democracy would contest the election with the same manifesto as the Janata party and would join the Janata party in Parliament, but would otherwise retain a separate identity ( the CFD would merge with the Janata party after the elections on May 5 ).