Karnataka Janata Paksha (KJP) was an Indian political party based in

Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a state in the southwestern region of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as Mysore State , it was renamed ''Karnat ...

state. It was founded in 2012 and disestablished in 2014, merging with the

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. It was headed by Karnataka Chief minister

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. Yeddyurappa had resigned as a

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and from the primary membership of the

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) 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 ...

(BJP) on 30 November 2012. The party was formally launched in a convention at Haveri on 9 December 2012, wherein thousands of people participated. Scores of former and sitting legislators, ministers and senior functionaries of the BJP joined the party along with Yeddyurappa. In the 2013 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Elections, the party under the leadership of Yeddyurappa won 8 of the 203 seats it had contested and secured about 10% of the total votes polled. Although, the party did not make any significant gains in the elections, it had restricted the BJP to just 40 seats, compared to the 110 it had in the outgoing assembly. Though the KJP was formed as a splinter of the BJP, it did not profess

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as its ideology and instead adopted a centrist

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stance with a secular outlook. In September 2013, Yeddyurappa announced that the party would support the BJP-led

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to ensure the victory of

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Electoral performance

References

External links

Official website
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