The Bharatiya Janata Party is a political party in India and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014,it has been the ruling political party in India under the incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The BJP is aligned with right-wing politics and has close ideological and organisational links to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),a far-right paramilitary organisation. Its policies adhere to Hindutva,a Hindu nationalist ideology. As of January 2024,it is the country's biggest political party in terms of representation in the Parliament of India as well as state legislatures.
Murli Manohar Joshi is an Indian politician. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of which he was the President between 1991 and 1993. Joshi is the former Member of Parliament from Kanpur Lok Sabha constituency. He is a former professor of physics in University of Allahabad. He is one of the senior most leaders of the BJP and one of the founding members. Joshi later became the Union Human Resources &Development Minister in the National Democratic Alliance government. Joshi was awarded Padma Vibhushan,the second-highest civilian award,in 2017 by the Government of India. Joshi has been a member of RSS since his college days.
Narendra Damodardas Modi is an Indian politician serving as the current prime minister of India since 26 May 2014. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Varanasi. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),a right-wing Hindu nationalist paramilitary volunteer organisation. He is the longest-serving prime minister outside the Indian National Congress.
Pravin Togadia is an Indian doctor,cancer surgeon and an advocate for Hindu nationalism,coming from the state of Gujarat. He was the former International Working President of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and a cancer surgeon by qualification. He is Founder and Current President of Antarashtriya Hindu Parishad. He had a falling-out with the Sangh Parivar and is a vocal critic of Narendra Modi.
Keshubhai Patel was an Indian politician who was the Chief Minister of Gujarat in 1995 and again from 1998 to 2001. He was a six-time member of Gujarat Legislative Assembly. He was a member of RSS since 1940s,of Bharatiya Jana Sangh in 1960s,Janata Party in 1970s,and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 1980. He left the BJP in 2012 and formed the Gujarat Parivartan Party. He was elected from Visavadar in the 2012 state assembly election but resigned in 2014 due to ill health and merged his party with BJP. He was awarded India's third highest civilian award the Padma Bhushan posthumously in 2021.
Nitin Jairam Gadkari is an Indian politician from Maharashtra who is serving as the 40th Minister of Road Transport &Highways in the Government of India since 2024. He is also the longest serving Minister for Road Transport &Highways,currently in his tenure for over ten years (2014-present),and is the only person to serve under a single portfolio for three consecutive terms. Gadkari earlier served as the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2009 to 2013.
Amitbhai Anilchandra Shah is an Indian politician who is currently serving as the 32nd Minister of Home Affairs since May 2019 and the first Minister of Co-operation since July 2021. He is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gandhinagar. He served as the 10th President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2014 to 2020. He has also served as chairman of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) since 2014. He had been elected as a member of the upper house of Parliament,Rajya Sabha,from Gujarat from 2017 to 2019.
Gordhan Zadafia is an Indian politician from Gujarat,India. He was a leader in Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) for 15 years before joining Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is one of the major political parties in India and is the main opposition party during the 15th Lok Sabha. It contested the 2014 parliamentary election along with their supportive parties,to form National Democratic Alliance with Narendra Modi as its Prime Ministerial candidate and party president Rajnath Singh as the chief-of-election of campaign. The important issues during the campaign included price hikes,corruption,the economy,national security,basic infrastructure such as roads and railways,and supplying basic needs such as electricity and water. The party promised a vibrant and participatory democracy,inclusive and sustainable development,quality of life,productive youth,a globally competitive economy,open and transparent government,and pro-active and pro-people governance in its manifesto.
Vinay Prabhakar Sahasrabuddhe is an Indian politician. He was a Member of the Parliament of India and represented the state of Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha from 2016-22. He has also served as National Vice President of Bharatiya Janata Party from August 2014 –September 2020. Dr. Sahasrabuddhe,since 2018 has been appointed as President of Indian Council for Cultural Relations. He is known as a political scholar and an occasional columnist. He is the Vice Chairman of Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini,a research and training academy for elected representatives &social activists. As Member of Parliament,he has also served as the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education,Women,Children and Youth &Sports. He is regarded as one of the foremost intellectuals from the BJP,the ruling party in the Central Government and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),a Hindu Nationalist organization.
Jashodaben Narendrabhai Modi is a retired Indian school teacher. She is the estranged wife of Narendra Modi,the Prime Minister of India. The couple were married in 1968 when she was about 17 and Modi was 18. A short time into the marriage,her husband,Narendra Modi,abandoned her. He did not acknowledge the marriage publicly until he was legally required to do so prior to the 2014 Indian general elections to the Lok Sabha. In 2015,Jashodaben Modi retired from her teaching job.
Narendra Modi,the 14th Prime Minister of India,has elicited a number of public perceptions regarding his personality,image,background and policies.
Muni Tarun Sagar was an Indian Digambara monk. His lectures are termed Kadve Pravachan because they can be candidly critical of common practices and views. His lectures have been compiled and published in book series also titled Kadve Pravachan. Excerpts from his discourses are often published by newspapers. Unlike most other Digambar Jain monks,his audience often included a majority of non-Jains. His discourses often addressed family or society issues.
Ravindra Yashwantrao Bhusari was the Maharashtra State General Secretary (Organisation) of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was the Pracharak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh for western India and a former member of its National Executive.
Swarnim Bharat Ke Swapnadrishta Narendra Modi is a 2014 nonfiction book written by Vijay Nahar and published by Pinkcity Publishers. The book covers the personal and political life of Narendra Modi based on references and press releases. It contains details of his childhood and marriage,and covers his time as RSS member,Gujarat Chief Minister,and BJP prime minister.
PM Narendra Modi is a 2019 Hindi-language biographical drama film directed by Omung Kumar,and written by Anirudh Chawla and Vivek Oberoi. The film is jointly produced by Suresh Oberoi,Sandip Singh,Anand Pandit,Acharya Manish under the banner of Legend Studios. The film's plot is based on the life of Narendra Modi,the 14th Prime Minister of India.
Chowkidar Chor Hai is a Hindi slogan used by the Indian National Congress (INC) in its election campaign for the 2019 Indian general election. The slogan was coined by the then INC president,Rahul Gandhi,against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) affiliated sitting Prime Minister Narendra Modi,after raising allegations of favouritism and price escalation in the Dassault Rafale deal. The slogan was coined with the intention of conveying that the person who was entrusted with safeguarding public money was in fact a thief;context being that PM Modi had in past claimed to be a "chowkidar" of the country.
Sunil Deodhar is an Indian Politician. He was the National Secretary of the Bhartiya Janata Party. Currently,he is Co-incharge of BJP Andhra Pradesh. He is a former RSS Pracharak,and son of Marathi journalist V N Deodhar. He was campaign manager for Narendra Modi in Varanasi constituency in 2014. He founded an NGO My Home India of North-East India.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),one of the major political parties in India,announced that Narendra Modi,the then chief minister of Gujarat state,would be their prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Indian general election. The announcement was made by the then BJP president Rajnath Singh on 12 September 2013.
