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 Narendra Modi,the incumbent Indian prime minister. The BJP is aligned with right-wing politics,and its policies have historically reflected a traditional Hindu nationalist ideology;it has close ideological and organisational links to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). As of 17 February 2022,it is the country's largest political party in terms of representation in the Parliament of India as well as state legislatures.
The Janata Party was a political party that was founded as an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the Emergency that was imposed between 1975 and 1977 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Indian National Congress. In the 1977 general election,the party defeated the Congress and Janata leader Morarji Desai became the first non-Congress prime minister in independent modern India's history.
Sanjay Gandhi was an Indian politician and the younger son of Indira Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi. He was a member of parliament,Lok Sabha and the Nehru–Gandhi family. During his lifetime,he was widely expected to succeed his mother as head of the Indian National Congress,but following his early death in a plane crash his elder brother Rajiv became their mother's political heir and succeeded her as Prime Minister of India after her assassination. His wife Maneka Gandhi and son Varun Gandhi are politicians in the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi is an Indian politician,animal rights activist,and environmentalist. She is a member of the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Indian parliament and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She is the widow of Indian politician Sanjay Gandhi. She has been a minister in four governments,most recently in Narendra Modi's government from May 2014 to May 2019. Gandhi inspired many individuals towards social entrepreneurship for example TreeAndHumanKnot in August 2020 which triggered it become a nationwide movement to plant fruit trees by couples.
Dainik Jagran is an Indian Hindi language daily newspaper.
Nitish Kumar is an Indian politician,who is serving as Chief Minister of Bihar since 22 February 2015,having previous held the office from 2005 to 2014 and for a short period in 2000. The leader of the Janata Dal (United),he has also served as a Union Minister.
Chaudhary is a hereditary title mainly in South Asia. Chowdhury a common surname in South Asia. Chaudharys belong from different backgrounds in India,Pakistan and Bangladesh and are not the same people but still have the historical titles.
Kushwaha is a community of the Indo-Gangetic Plain which has traditionally been involved in agriculture. The term has been used to represent different subcastes,being those of the Kachhis,Koeris and Muraos. Under the Indian governments system of positive discrimination,the Kushwahas are classified as a "Backward" or "Other Backward class". From the 20th century onwards,they began to claim descent from the Suryavansh (Solar) dynasty via Kusha,who was one of the twin sons of Rama and Sita. Previously,they had worshipped Shiva and Shakta.
The Nehru–Gandhi family is an Indian political family that has occupied a prominent place in the politics of India. The involvement of the family has traditionally revolved around the Indian National Congress,as various members have traditionally led the party. Three members of the family–Jawaharlal Nehru,Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi–have served as the prime minister of India,while several others have been members of the parliament.
The organisation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is based upon the Constitution of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The organisation of the BJP is strictly hierarchical,with the president being the highest authority in the party. The party is considered to be a cadre-based party that draws from the Hindutva-based ideology of its parent organisation,the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
Maharashtra is a state in the western region of India and is India's third-largest state by area. It has over 112 million inhabitants and its capital,Mumbai,has a population of approximately 18 million. Nagpur is Maharashtra's second,or winter,capital. Government in the state is organized on the parliamentary system. Power is devolved to large city councils,district councils,sub-district (Taluka) councils,and the village parish councils. The politics of the state are dominated by the numerically strong Maratha–Kunbi community. There are national and regional parties in the state,serving different demographics,such as those based on religion,caste,urban and rural residents.
Sanjaya Sinh is an Indian politician and a former member of the Rajya Sabha. He was twice elected to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh during the 1980s and held state ministerial posts. In 1990,he became a member of the upper house of the Parliament of India,which is known as the Rajya Sabha,and in 1998 he was elected to the lower house,called the Lok Sabha. His term in the 12th Lok Sabha session lasted until the following year. Subsequently,in 2009,he was successful in obtaining a second term in that house as a member of the 15th Lok Sabha representing the Sultanpur constituency of Uttar Pradesh. He represented the state of Assam in the Rajya Sabha. He resigned from Rajya Sabha and Indian National Congress to join Bharatiya Janata Party on 30 July 2019.
Yogendra Yadav is an Indian activist,psephologist and politician whose primary interests are in the political and social sciences. He was a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS),Delhi from 2004 to 2016. He is a former member of University Grants Commission (UGC) and National Advisory Council on Right to Education Act (NAC-RTE) constituted by Ministry of Human Resources and Development,Govt of India,in 2010. He was a member of the National Executive of the Aam Aadmi Party until 2015.
Christophe Jaffrelot is a French political scientist and Indologist specialising in South Asia,particularly India and Pakistan. He is a professor of South Asian politics and history the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales (CERI) at Sciences Po (Paris),a professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the King's India Institute (London),and a Research Director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).
Ramesh Bidhuri is a Member of the India Parliament and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
S. Krishna Kumar is a bureaucrat turned Indian politician from Kerala. He was also a technologist,technocrat,trade unionist,political and social worker,sportsman,Engineer and Civil Servant. He was a former leader of Indian National Congress in Kerala and joined Bharatiya Janata Party on 20 April 2019. He has been elected to the Lok Sabha three times during 80s and 90s,and was also a minister in the Rajiv Gandhi ministry and Rao ministry. He served as a member of the Lok Sabha representing Quilon. He was elected to 8th,9th and 10th Lok Sabha.
Bandi Sanjay Kumar is an Indian politician who is a Member of the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Parliament of India,representing the Karimnagar constituency since 2019. In 2020,he was appointed the state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Telangana. He is a board member of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences,Bibinagar,Hyderabad,Telangana.
Bharatiya Janata Party,Bihar is a state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar. Sanjay Jaiswal is the current president of the BJP Bihar.
The Upper Backward Caste is a term used to describe the middle castes in Bihar,whose social and ritual status was not very low and which has traditionally been involved in the agricultural and animal husbandry related activities in the past. They have also been involved in low scale trade to some extent. The Koeri,Kurmi,Yadav and Bania are categorised as the upper-backwards amongst the Other Backward Class group;while the various other caste groups which constitutes the OBC,a group comprising 51% of the population of state of Bihar,has been classified as lower backwards. The upper-backwards also called upper OBC represents approximately 20.3% of the population of Bihar. These agricultural caste were the biggest beneficiaries of the land reform drive which was undertaken in the 1950s in the state and they strengthened their economic position by gaining a significant portion of excess land under the ceiling laws,which prohibited the ownership of land above a certain ceiling.
The Luv-Kush equation is a political term used in the context of the politics of Bihar,to denote the alliance of the agricultural Kurmi and the Koeri caste,which together constitutes approximately 15% of the state's population. The alliance of these two caste groups has remained the support base of Nitish Kumar,as against the MY equation of Lalu Prasad Yadav,which constitutes Muslims and the Yadavs. Caste consciousness and the quest for political representation largely drive the politics of Bihar. The political alliance of the Koeri and the Kurmi castes,termed the "Luv-Kush equation" was formed when a massive Kurmi Chetna Rally was organised by members of the Kurmi community in 1994 against the alleged casteist politics of Lalu Yadav,who was blamed by contemporary community leaders for promoting Yadavs in politics and administration.
