"The shadows will fade, the sun will shine, and the lotus will bloom." This was said by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the first president of the Bharatiya Janata Party, on this day in 1980, 42 years ago, when the party was founded.
Perhaps he said it to bolster party worker morale, but no one in the party or the opposition parties at the moment believed Vajpayee's remarks would prove to be true in the coming days.
Apart from the Center, the party now has power in more than 20 states after 42 years, and party leaders claim that it will continue to expand.
The Narendra Modi-Amit Shah duo has led the party to the top in the last eight years.
Today, the party boasts that it is the world's largest political party in terms of membership.
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They say, one has to keep continually working on the ground. Coming out of Air Conditioner rooms just few months earlier to the elections wouldn't help.
Modi contributes to the party's luster
Making Narendra Modi the prime ministerial candidate in the 2014 elections was critical in achieving this goal. What would have occurred if Modi had not been chosen to run for Prime Minister?
From two seats in the 1984 Lok Sabha elections to 303 seats in the 2019 elections, the BJP has experienced many ups and downs, severe failures, and feelings of discouragement.
The electoral defeat was interpreted as confirmation that the liberal policies of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the party's president at the time, would fail. In place of Vajpayee, Lal Krishna Advani was appointed President. Advani instantly resurrected the Jana Sangh's hardline Hindutva as the party's main doctrine.
A close associate of Atal Bihari Bajpayee said, in 1980, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was founded. For the first 15 years, it was marginal, but with the weakening of the Congress and the necessity of being a national party since there was no other option, the BJP gained traction and created a coalition government. "It was successful."
Before the coalition government was formed, Advani's rising popularity resurrected the party. Advani became the face of a public campaign in Ayodhya to build the Ram Janmabhoomi temple. Hardline In the 1989 general elections, Hindutva politics achieved enormous political gains, with the BJP winning 85 Lok Sabha seats. Following that, it raised its strength to 120 in the 1991 general elections. In 1991, it boosted its vote share from 11.4 percent to 20.1 percent.
The BJP boosted their Lok Sabha seats to 161 in the 1996 general elections, staking a claim to form the government as the single largest party, which was approved. Under Vajpayee, a BJP-led administration was created for the first time, but it only lasted 13 days because it failed to gain the support of the majority of non-Congress, non-Left political groups.
Instead of facing a confidence vote in Parliament, Vajpayee resigned. The BJP gained 182 seats in the Lok Sabha in the 1998 general elections, forming the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which lasted 13 months, from March 19, 1998, to April 17, 1999, when it lost a no-confidence motion by one vote. lost.
In 1990, BJP won 270 seats and Bajpayee became Prime Minister for 3rd term.
Following that, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) kept the BJP out of power for the following ten years. Then, in 2014, under Modi's leadership, it staged a dramatic comeback to power, winning an absolute majority with 282 seats for the first time.
In 2019, the number of seats increased to 303.
In the previous decade, the BJP has worked to improve the party's structure from the ground up. Since coming to power, the party has constructed good offices in every area of the country, and the number of people joining the party has steadily increased.
According to experts, "The organization should receive the most credit. Its working team and working attitude should both be eliminated. Narendra Modi and Amit Shah should be given applause to uplift the party since last ten years. However, the organization has a significant role in this as well." The employees in the party have made a commitment. The party's senior citizens do not abandon it.
At the moment, the party will only advance under the leadership of Modi and Shah. "The party influence is about to cease," experts argue, "given that the opposition parties enhance coordination among themselves, negotiate, and challenge the BJP by unifying over the commitment to democratic principles and the constitution."
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