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Bharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, ; ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the List of ruling political parties by country, ruling political party in India under the incumbent Prime Minister of India, 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 politics, far-right Paramilitary organization, paramilitary organisation. Its policies adhere to Hindutva, a Hindu nationalism, Hindu nationalist ideology. it is the country's biggest political party in terms of representation in the Parliament of India as well as State legislature (India), state legislatures. The party's origins lie in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which was founded in 1951 by Indian politician Syama Prasad Mukherjee, after he left Hindu Mahasabh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shiv Prakash
Shiv Prakash (born 1 August 1967) is an Indian politician and the current Joint National General Secretary (Organization) of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was assigned to the party from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in 2014. Early life and education Shiv Prakash was born on 1 August 1967, in Birubala, a small village in Uttar Pradesh. He completed his studies at Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University. Career Shiv Prakash started his political career in 1986 as a district-level coordinator of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. In 2008, the RSS gave him the responsibility of Western Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. In 2014, he was transferred to the BJP to take charge as joint general secretary, soon after overseeing the party's victory in Uttar Pradesh in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Shiv Prakash, along with former Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad leader Arvind Menon, started working behind the scenes to lay the foundation of the BJP in the eastern states. In 2015, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
