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About Bharatiya Janata Party
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The Bharatiya Janata Party [BJP] (Hindi: भारतीय जनता पार्टी [भाजपा], translation: Indian People's Party), created in 1980, is a major centre-right Indian political party. Full Article
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India's former finance minister and member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Jaswant Singh speaks during a news conference in the northern Indian hill town of Shimla August 19, 2009. BJP on Wednesday expelled Singh for praising Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in a book.
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India's former finance minister and member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Jaswant Singh reacts during a news conference in the northern Indian hill town of Shimla August 19, 2009. BJP on Wednesday expelled Singh for praising Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in a book.
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India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Lal Krishna Advani laughs during a book release function in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh August 17, 2009. Advani on Monday released a biography of former Punjab minister and senior BJP leader Balramji Dass Tandon.
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India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Lal Krishna Advani speaks during a book release function in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh August 17, 2009. Advani on Monday released a biography of former Punjab minister and senior BJP leader Balramji Dass Tandon.
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Activists from India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shout slogans and burn an effigy personifying the ruling Congress-led government during a protest against price hikes, in the northern Indian city of Amritsar August 17, 2009.
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An activist from India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shouts slogans against price hikes during a protest in New Delhi August 17, 2009. Hundreds of BJP activists on Monday staged a protest against the price hikes of essential food items, BJP said.
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Activists from India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) listen to their party President Rajnath Singh during a protest in New Delhi August 17, 2009. Hundreds of BJP activists on Monday staged a protest against the price hikes of essential food items, BJP said.
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An activist from India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shows a garland made with vegetables during a protest in New Delhi August 17, 2009. Hundreds of BJP activists on Monday staged a protest against the price hikes of essential food items, BJP said.
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Activists from India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hold a cutout of a tomato during a protest in New Delhi August 17, 2009. Hundreds of BJP activists on Monday staged a protest against the price hikes of essential food items, BJP said.
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Activists from India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) listen to their party President Rajnath Singh during a protest in New Delhi August 17, 2009. Hundreds of BJP activists on Monday staged a protest against the price hikes of essential food items, BJP said.
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Varun Gandhi, Member of Parliament from India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), gestures during his visit to the holy Sikh shrine of Golden Temple in the northern Indian city of Amritsar August 16, 2009.
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An activist from India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wearing headgear made with vegetables, shouts slogans during a protest in New Delhi August 3, 2009.
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An activist from India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wearing headgear made with vegetables, shouts slogans during a protest in New Delhi August 3, 2009.
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India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Lal Krishna Advani (R) speaks with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton before their meeting in New Delhi July 20, 2009.
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An activist of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) scuffles with police during a protest against rising fuel prices in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad July 11, 2009.
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Indian cricketer-turned-politician and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Parliament Navjot Singh Sidhu (C) gestures to supporters upon his return to his constituency in Amritsar on October 3, 2009.
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Mayawati, who became chief minister of UP thrice by having a tacit understanding with the communal and fascist forces, who addressed an election meeting in Gujarat for Narendra Modi and even voted with BJP against the confidence motion on nuclear deal in Parliament, is now claiming to be the greatest we...
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The Ayodhya issue is just vote politics for the Congress, BJP and SP and they are staging a drama before people after the tabling of the Commission's report
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Mayawati has no moral authority to talk about the issue as she came to power with the BJP's support one year after the demolition of Babri Mosque and then she also shared power with it
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The report itself looks like a thesis against the BJP and RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh)
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She was elected as CM for the first time with the help of the BJP, which was responsible for the demolition of Babri Masjid
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even when the Babri Masjid was pulled down with a BJP government sitting in Lucknow, it was the Congress ruling in New Delhi [ Images ]; what happened on December 6, 1992 could have never happened without the active connivance of the central government.
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it was amply evident that the Congress and BJP have been taking political mileage out of the Ayodhya issue; after all who does not know that both went in when the gates of the Ayodhya shrine were unlocked and the shilaniyas (foundation stone) of the proposed temple was carried out under the patronage of...
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It was this very Congress-BJP secret nexus that led to the demolition of the Babri Masjid [ Images ] in 1992 and they were once again active to play their respective politics in the name of the Ayodhya issue
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Politicians behind the incident like (former prime minister Atal Bihari) Vajpayee, (senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K.) Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi did a great crime by raising communal passions. The government should take appropriate action so such a thing is not repeated again in the country
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We are undertaking this journey in the right direction by involving every section of society. Despite BJP, the minorities have associated themselves with us and we did not allow a communal violence to break out. We also did justice to the victims of Bhagalpur riots and ensured ex gratia for them on a pa...
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Senior RSS leaders, the senior-most Bharatiya Janata Party leader and more than two lakh karsevaks from various parts of India were present but the RSS played no role in the demolition
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It (the Liberhan report) will go in favour of the BJP. It was low-level politics to leak the report. What kind of government is functioning at the centre? Their (Congress) vote is already consolidated and it will work to consolidate votes of other sections of society in favour of the BJP
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It (the Liberhan report) will go in favour of the BJP. It was low-level politics to leak the report. What kind of government is functioning at the centre? Their (Congress) vote is already consolidated and it will work to consolidate votes of other sections of society in favour of the BJP
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As the inner core of the Parivar, the top leadership of the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad), Shiv Sena, Bajrang Dal and the BJP bear primary responsibility
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It was a perfectly legitimate slogan and there was no reason for the SP leader to rush to the BJP benches. We condemn this
– Prakash Javadekar SOURCE: Webindia123 -
Congress and BJP are hand-in-glove because both of them are responsible
– Basudeb Acharia SOURCE: Times of India -
The Supreme Court had punished then BJP Chief Minister Kalyan Singh. The culpabililty is already settled in the minds of the people and it lies squarely with the BJP and its affiliate organisations.
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the country admires Vajpayee's towering personality. Efforts are being made to tarnish his image just ahead of elections in Jharkhand, a state created by the BJP-led government. The people will give a fitting reply as the BJP has never been communal
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the country admires Vajpayee's towering personality. Efforts are being made to tarnish his image just ahead of elections in Jharkhand, a state created by the BJP-led government. The people will give a fitting reply as the BJP has never been communal
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Jharkhand has been neglected and devastated by corrupt and unscrupulous politicians like Koda who, for his own selfish interest, laundered the common man's money. The amount that Koda has been accused of, will be brought back and used for the state's development if the BJP wins in the upcoming assembly ...
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Rajnath Singh ought not nurse such apprehension. If necessary, the case could be given to any agency, including the CBI, for further probe, covering the BJP and the Koda regimes.
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It is not without significance that we were expelled from the Janata Party on the day of Crucifixion of Christ, and that we are experiencing our political rebirth in the form of the BJP on the day of Resurrection of Christ.
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motivated propaganda ... It is an important enough occasion for me to respond to the consistent propaganda that my party, the BJP, is anti-minorities and anti-Christian.
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Because of my school background, I often use Christian metaphors even in my political communication. When the Bharatiya Janata Party was born on 6th April 1980, it was Easter Sunday, the Day of Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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We are committed to realizing the unfulfilled dreams of late Mohan Lal Sukhadia, who wanted to see the Dewas project completed to solve the water problem of Udaipur. The Congress governments never paid any attention to this project. If the BJP forms the board at Udaipur Municipal Council, the first gift...
– Gulab Chand Kataria SOURCE: Times of India
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