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2010 Deganga riots

Tathagata Roy, a former State President of the BJP, distanced his party from those claims and also from the HS.

2012 Karnataka video clip controversy

At a session of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, a camera showed two BJP cabinet ministers, Laxman Savadi and C C Patil, allegedly watching pornographic clips on a mobile phone in a session of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly.

A G Noorani

He is the author of a number of books including: 'The Kashmir Question', 'Badruddin Tyabji Ministers' Misconduct', 'Brezhnev's Plan for Asian Security', 'The Presidential System', 'The Trial of Bhagat Singh', 'Constitutional Questions in India' and 'The RSS and the BJP: A Division of Labour' (LeftWord 2000).

Bangaru Laxman

Laxman was involved in a major controversy when a private TV network when Tehelka allegedly showed him taking bribes from Mathew Samuel on a hidden camera while he was the president of the BJP.

Bawana

It is a general seat for the MCD, represented by Ishwar Singh and presently held by Narain Singh of BJP.

Ber Sarai

This constituency has been the battleground of two candidates over the years: Ramesh Kumar of the Congress (I), who replaced his brother Sajjan Kumar (a senior leader of congress party and ex Member of Parliament) and Sher Singh Dagar of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Bijoya Chakravarty

In 2004, the BJP decided to field singer Bhupen Hazarika in her place, causing widespread protests from BJP party workers.

BJP Minority Morcha

Abdul Alim Khan, Sikander Bakht, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Syed Shahnawaz Hussain are among the well known Muslim leaders of the BJP.

Communalism Combat

In a 1999 interview, Javed Anand said that before the 1999 Lok Sabha elections Communalism Combat requested and received funds from the Congress Party, Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India and ten individuals to run advertisements attacking the Sangh Parivar and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Deendayal Upadhyaya Trust

Meanwhile, well before its registration, the BJP mayor of Jaipur, Ashok Parnami, allotted 7,693 sq.m of prime land in Jaipur (an erstwhile palace for British residents) for the yet-to-exist trust.

Dinu Solanki

He is said to be a close colleague of the BJP minister Amit Shah.

Eknath Khadse

Eknath Khadse is a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party and prominent leader of BJP in Maharashtra.

Ekta Yatra

Ekta Yatra (English : National Integration rally) is being led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) youth wing national president and Lok Sabha MP Anurag Thakur.

Friends of Tribals Society

After a 2004 electoral victory by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Madhya Pradesh, the Human Resources Development minister Murli Manohar Joshi gave credit to the FTS for helping achieve the BJP victory.

Gangu Teli

Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat, and a member of the right-wing Hindu nationalist BJP party, belongs to the Teli caste; a remark by Congress Party's Ghulam Nabi Azad, rephrasing Modi's Prime Ministerial ambitions in the light of the ancient quip "Kahan Raja Bhoj, kahan Gangu Teli" has drawn denunciations of casteism by the BJP.

Godhra train burning

BJP spokesperson, Ravi Shankar Prasad said the verdict had exposed the nefarious designs of the UPA government which tried to cover up the entire episode.

Hindu Yuva Vahini

The Hindu Yuva Vahini has been charged by the police in the Mau riots of October 2005, where they organized the Hindu forces in opposition to a politician Mukhtar Ansari, the alleged murderer of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state legislature member Krishnanand Rai.

Karnataka Janata Paksha

Despite the fact that the KJP had broken away from the Bharatiya Janata Party, Yeddyurappa announced in September 2013 that it would support the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance.

Khaleel Chishty

BJP, the main Indian opposition party expressed its dismay at a judge writing to the Prime Minister for securing the release of a Pakistani prisoner in his individual capacity.

Kodagu Gowda

Shobha Karandlaje, BJP Leader and Minister, Government of Karnataka

Liberhan Commission

The senior BJP leader further alleged that the government wanted to divert attention from the opposition its plan of raising Madhu Koda and 2G Spectrum allocation scams in Parliament.

He claimed a powerful Congress leader of Maharashtra, whose name he did not disclose, had told him at senior BJP leader late K R Malkani's house in Delhi that the party had a plan to dislodge the government headed by Narasimha Rao "in the name of temple movement so that he could replace him"

Claiming that the UPA government did not intend to table the full report as it indicts the then Congress government of P V Narasimha Rao, Deputy Leader of BJP in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj said the Home Ministry leaked the report to divert attention from the issues being raised by a united opposition.Recently the BJP has been raising the issue of rising prices of essential commodities.

M. D. Antani

Antani, the former SP of Bharuch, was transferred out of Bharuch to Narmada district in March 2002 for taking action against some BJP/VHP supporters creating political turmoil in Bharuch.

Maninder Singh Dhir

He received 37 votes against 32 for the opposing candidate, Jagdish Mukhi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Manoj Pradhan

Naveen Patnaik, leader of the Biju Janata Dal broke his ties with the BJP, saying that "the alliance in the state had to be broken because it became impossible for him to stay with the saffron party after the Kandhanmal riots which "horrified the entire world".

Ninety-second Amendment of the Constitution of India

Laxmi Mall Singhvi, BJP Rajya Sabha MP, stated that the legislation's intention was not to reduce the impact or acceptability of Hindi by including more languages in the Eighth Schedule.

Pon Radhakrishnan

Fondly called Pon Rji by the BJP party cadres, Pon Radhakrishnan hails from a wealthy and eminent Nadar family from Alathankarai, Nagercoil.

Puducherry Legislative Assembly election, 2011

Several high-profile national politicians took part in the campaigning: Sonia Gandhi (president of the Indian National Congress), Rahul Gandhi (Indian National Congress general secretary), Pranab Mukherjee (Indian National Congress union minister), Nitin Gadkari (BJP president), Sushma Swaraj (BJP MP), Venkaiah Naidu (former BJP president), M. Karunanidhi (DMK chief minister of Tamil Nadu), J. Jayalalithaa (leader of AIADMK) and Vijayakanth (leader of DMDK).

Sharwan Kumar

He again fought MLA elections in 2013 but lost to BJP candidate Santosh Ahlawat with over 50,000 Votes.His loss came as a surprise among the people and that too,with such a huge margin.

Sikander Bakht

In 1980 the Janta Party split and Bakht opted to be with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Sobha Surendran

Sobha Surendran (Vadakkaanchery, Thrissur district) also called Shobha Surendran or Shobhaji is a political leader from Kerala, belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Sumedh Singh Saini

Appointed very soon after a new government had been formed, involving the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Saini has been tasked with reducing crime and inhibiting the activities of people involved in the drug trade.

Although supported by the present Chief Minister, Parkash Singh Badal, the BJP claim that the decision to appoint was a unilateral one and that they were not consulted.

Suresh Kashinath Haware

Suresh Haware or Suresh Kashinath Haware is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from the Belapur constituency.

TJAC

The TRS, BJP, and New Democratic Party are presently its members.

Yellapu

Kamala Devi in the presence of BJP leader Ch. Vidaysagar Rao, Karimnagar MP Ponnam Prabhakar, legislator A. Praveen Reddy, former legislators E. Peddi Reddy and Chada Venkat Reddy, freedom fighter Boinpalli Venkat Rama Rao.


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