BJP’s 43rd Foundation Day: From humble beginning to political juggernaut, how saffron party rose to prominance

BJP’s Foundation Day: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is celebrating its 43rd basis day at present (April 6). To commemorate the event, the party has deliberate a week-long social concord marketing campaign from at present until the beginning anniversary of Baba Saheb Ambedkar on April 14. In addition, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the topmost chief of the party, will even handle BJP leaders and staff in New Delhi. According to sources, the party has additionally directed the BJP staff to host seminars and discussions on the historical past of the party and the achievements of the central authorities. 

HISTORY OF THE PARTY

The rise of the saffron party has been at least stellar because it has emerged as an ‘election-winning machine” over the previous couple of years. The party formally got here into existence on April 6, 1980. It had emerged from the Jana Sangh, which was fashioned by Shyama Prasad Mukherjee in 1951. After the Emergency was imposed by the then Congress-led authorities, the Jana Sangha merged with another events to kind the ‘Janata Party’ in 1977. Three years later, the Janata Party dissolved and its members fashioned the Bharatiya Janata Party with Atal Bihari Vajpayee as its first president.

HOW BJP ROSE TO PROMINENCE

43 years since its inception, the BJP has now carved a distinct segment for itself because the world’s largest political party that guidelines a nation of over 1.3 billion individuals. Over the years, the saffron party grew to dominate Indian politics and almost expanded its footprint in each nook of the nation. The Communist Party of China was thought of the most important party on this planet prior to 2015.  

The BJP has made its mark as a political powerhouse on account of its profitable run within the nation. The saffron party is at the moment the most important political organisation within the globe, claiming to have over 180 million members. According to studies, that is virtually twice the energy of China’s Communist Party, the second-largest political party on this planet. After increasing its presence throughout the nation, the BJP additionally managed to cross the 100-seat mark within the Rajya Sabha in 2022, thus turning into the primary party to accomplish that since 1990.

BJP’S FOOTPRINTS ACROSS COUNTRY

Under the management of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the party has made electoral historical past successful back-to-back Lok Sabha elections and several other Assembly elections. The saffron party has continued to be a dominant drive in Indian politics since registering a landslide victory within the 2014 General Elections. Since then, the party has additionally made its maintain in a number of states by successful back-to-back elections. Of the 31 Assemblies within the nation, at the moment, the Bharatiya Janata Party is in energy in 17 of them, both straight or in coalitions with different events.

HERE ARE THE BJP/COALITION-RULED ASSEMBLIES

1. Arunachal Pradesh
2. Assam
3. Goa
4. Gujarat
5. Haryana 
6. Karnataka
7. Madhya Pradesh
8. Maharashtra
9. Manipur
10. Meghalaya
11. Mizoram
12. Nagaland
13. Sikkim
14. Tripura
15. Uttar Pradesh
16. Uttarakhand
17. Puducherry

FROM 2 SEATS IN 1984 TO A POLITICAL POWERHOUSE

The BJP might handle to win solely two seats within the first Lok Sabha polls it ever contested in 1984 as an impartial party. But two BJP leaders’ historic victories—Chandupatla Janga Reddy from Andhra Pradesh and AK Patel from Gujarat—gave the party the much-needed assist it might want to problem the then-dominant Congress within the years to come.

In the next General Elections, the BJP persistently gained seats (besides in 2004 and 2009). It received 85 seats in 1989 and reached three figures in 1991. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the party engineered historic victories in 2014 and 2019, successful a snug majority within the decrease home by itself. The BJP independently crossed the 300-mark within the 2019 General Elections for the primary time.

It needs to be talked about right here that the BJP has made it obligatory for the workplace bearers of the party and all of the MPs and MLAs to take part within the Foundation Day programmes this yr, organise a minimum of three packages in a single meeting constituency, and share the pictures on social media. 

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