The Akhil Bharatiya Jana Sangh (abbreviated asBJS or JS,short name:Jan Sangh,was an Indian nationalist political party. This party was established on 21 October 1951 in Delhi,and existed until 1977. Its three founding members were Shyama Prasad Mukherjee,Balraj Madhok and Deendayal Upadhyaya. Jan Sangh was the political arm of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh,a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. In 1977,it merged with several other left,centre and right parties opposed to the Indian National Congress and formed the Janata Party. In 1980,the members of erstwhile Jan Sangh quit the Janata party after the defeat in the 1980 general elections and formed the Bharatiya Janata Party,which is the direct political successor to the Jan Sangh.
Ram Naik is a veteran Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party,served as the 19th Governor of Uttar Pradesh.
Vinay Katiyar is a politician and the founder-president of Bajrang Dal,the youth wing of the Hindu nationalist organisation Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) in India. He has served as an All India General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),and as a Member of Parliament in both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha.
Suraj Bhan was an Indian politician who was elected to the Lok Sabha for four terms from Ambala. He also served as the Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha from July 1996 to December 1997. He served as governor of Uttar Pradesh,Himachal Pradesh,and Bihar.
Chandikadas Amritrao Deshmukh BR,better known as Nanaji Deshmukh,was a social reformer and politician from India. He worked in the fields of education,health,and rural self-reliance. He was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna,India's highest civilian award in 2019 by the Government of India. He was a leader of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and also a member of the Rajya Sabha.
Beni Prasad Verma was an Indian politician and a founding member of the Samajwadi Party. A prominent member of the Samajwadi Party,he later joined Indian National Congress and was elected on its ticket to Lok Sabha in 2009. In 2016 he rejoined the Samajwadi Party.
Ashthabhuja Prasad Shukla is an Indian politician. He represented the Khalilabad constituency in the Lok Sabha during 1991-1996. He is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Dinesh Sharma is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh. He was the Deputy Chief minister of Uttar Pradesh from 2017 to 2022. He was previously the mayor of Lucknow. A professor by profession,he is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and he has held various posts in the party.
Ram Shankar Katheria,is an Indian politician and former chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes. He is a member of the 17th Lok Sabha of India representing Etawah constituency of Uttar Pradesh. He represented the Agra constituency of Uttar Pradesh previously. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was a Minister of State in the Human Resource Development Ministry till 6 July 2016.
Sudhir Gupta is an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is currently a member of parliament,having been elected twice,in 2014 and 2019,to the Lok Sabha from Mandsour constituency in Madhya Pradesh.
Mahendra Nath Pandey is an Indian politician who was Minister of Heavy Industries and Minister for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship of India and Member of Lok Sabha for Chandauli from 2014 to 2024. He is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party and was the president of the party's Uttar Pradesh unit. He has also served as Union Minister of State for Ministry of Human Resource Development between 2016 and 2017. He is a member of Modi's second ministry. On 30 May 2019,he was appointed as Cabinet minister for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship,Government of India.
Rajendra Agnihotri was a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was a member of the Ninth,Tenth,Eleventh,and Twelfth Lok Sabha representing the Jhansi of Uttar Pradesh. From 1963 to 198,he worked as Pracharak of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. He also served as a member of the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha from 1980 to 1985 from Jhansi Nagar and was Chief Whip for Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He died on 5 June 2008.
Madhav Prasad Tripathi was a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party from Uttar Pradesh. He was an Indian philosopher,sociologist,historian and political scientist. He was one of the most important leaders of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and played key role in establishing the party,the forerunner of the present day Bharatiya Janata Party.
208,Bhognipur Assembly constituency is a part of the Kanpur Dehat district of Uttar Pradesh and it comes under Jalaun Lok Sabha constituency.
Ganga Bhakt Singh (1922–2010) was a senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party from Uttar Pradesh,India,affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. He served as a cabinet minister twice in the Government of Uttar Pradesh in 1967 and 1991 and as the Deputy-Chairman of the State Planning Commission between 1999-2002 under the Chief Minister Rajnath Singh. He was a member of the Sixth Lok Sabha from Shahabad Lok Sabha constituency as well as being a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly for four terms.
Mauli Chandra Sharma was a senior Indian politician,originally of the Indian National Congress. He was a founding member of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh,serving as its Vice-President and President,before being forced out by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh activists in the party in 1954.
Arun Singh is an Indian politician who holds the positions of National General Secretary and Head Quarter In-charge of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Singh is currently serving his second term as a member of parliament in the Rajya Sabha. Over the period,Singh has discharged the responsibility as BJP's State Incharge of various states,including Andhra Pradesh,Rajasthan,Karnataka,Odisha,Jharkhand and Ladakh.
Surendra Prasad Yadav is an Indian politician from the Rashtriya Janata Dal,and a Member of Parliament representing Jahanabad(Lok Sabha constituency) in Bihar,India and former Member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly. He also served as a member of 12th Lok Sabha of India from Jahanabad(Lok Sabha constituency). He was consecutively elected Eight times since 1990 to 2020 the Bihar Legislative Assembly.
Kushwaha is a surname used by people of Koeri caste in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. The Kushwahas are also known as Maurya,Shakya,Saini in various parts of north India. As per one opinion,the Kushwaha surname is also common among members of Kachhi caste,who later merged with the Koeris to become a single homogeneous community. They are a dominant OBC community in the state of Bihar.
