The Bharatiya Janshakti Party (

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: भारतीय जनशक्ति पार्टी,

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: ''Bhāratiya Janaśakti Pārtī''; "Indian People's Power Party") was founded on 30 April 2006 in

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in the state of

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. It was founded by

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, a former leader of the

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(BJP), following her expulsion from the BJP for "indiscipline". She stated that the Bharatiya Janshakti Party was subject to the

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, an institution preeminent in India for being the ideological parent body for a number of powerful Hindu nationalist groups in India, and had secured from that organization its support. With Uma Bharti rejoining the

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in June 2011, the Bharatiya Janshakti Party would be merged with the BJP. BJS working president Sangh Priya Gautam announced the merger here in the presence of BJP national president

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, Uma Bharti and other senior leaders. The Bharatiya Janshakti Party had a marked lack of political success in its five-year career; Bharti later stated that she severely regretted the time she spent outside the BJP. In the 2008 State Assembly Elections, the party won only 6 out of the 230 seats in the State Legislative Assembly.

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