The Bharatiya Janta Party or the BJP is India’s biggest national party and currently rules the country. It was formed in 1980, though its origins lie in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which was founded in 1951. The BJP has been in power since 2014, with Narendra Modi as India’s prime minister – the longest-serving non-Congress PM.
The BJP is known to be right-wing in its political and economic ideologies. Its ideological fount is the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or the RSS, and many of its top leaders were youth leaders in the RSS. The BJP, as of March 2024, is in power alone or in alliance in more than 18 of the 28 states in the country.
BJP is a non-entity in TN politics. Two corrupt parties – AIADMK and DMK – are the dominant political forces here. Whether Kushbhoo joins BJP or not, that is not going to make any material difference. Corruption is a non-issue in TN – because corruption is the most accepted way of life in TN – the late Karunanidhi has conditioned the minds of Tamils to accept corruption is an integral part of Tamil psyche.