TopicBharatiya Jan Sangh

Topic: Bharatiya Jan Sangh

Jana Sangh was formed on this day 70 yrs ago. How its ideology is reflected in today’s BJP

Arun Anand - 21 October, 2021

The establishment of the BJS was significant as it was the foremost counter-measure to challenge the Nehruvian paradigm of politics and present an alternative paradigm.

Who killed Deendayal Upadhyaya? It’s a 50-year-old question

Arun Anand - 25 September, 2020

Five decades since then Bharatiya Jana Sangh chief Deendayal Upadhyaya died under mysterious circumstances, there are no still no answers to who killed him and why.

How Syama Prasad Mookerjee launched first nationwide campaign on J&K and paid with his life

Arun Anand - 23 June, 2020

Syama Prasad Mookerjee had launched a satyagraha in 1952 for full integration of J&K with the rest of India. He died in Srinagar on 23 June 1953.

Veteran RSS ideologue P. Parameswaran, a Padma Vibhushan awardee, dies at 91

PTI - 9 February, 2020

Fondly called Parameswar ji, Parameswaran had worked with leaders like Deendayal Upadhyaya, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and LK Advani during his Jana Sangh days.

Syama Prasad Mookerjee — the BJP ideologue whose political ideas find echo even today

Samyak Pandey - 23 June, 2019

The death of Syama Prasad Mookerjee, a staunch nationalist who stood against Article 370, still remains a mystery till date.

Jan Sangh founder S.P. Mookerjee was murdered, claim academicians at Nehru Memorial event

Rajgopal Singh - 24 June, 2018

Mookerjee’s death has been the subject of debates and conspiracies for decades and Nehru is among those who have been controversially linked to it. New...