In 1978, Jimmy Carter became the first U.S. president to make an official visit to India.
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The Janata government announced its desire to achieve "genuine" non-alignment in the Cold War, which had been the long-standing national policy.
In 1980 the Janta Party split and Bakht opted to be with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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He joined politics in 1965 and went on to become the President of Paladka Panchayath in Karkala Taluk, Chairman of Moodbidri Town Panchayath, President of Taluk Marketing Society, Karkala, Co-operative Service Bank and District Janata Party of Dakshina Kannada.
When the Janata Party came to power by emerging as the single largest party in the 1983 State elections, he emerged as a consensus candidate between the powerful Lingayat and Vokkaliga lobbies.
For some years, he served in political parties like Janata Party, Janata Dal, and Lok Shakti.
After Indira Gandhi lost the elections of 1977, the ruling Janata Party wanted him to head the Commission of Inquiry against the of illegal imposition of the emergency and the various atrocities committed during it but Khanna refused, as he felt he would appear biased toward Indira Gandhi and her son Sanjay Gandhi.
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.
Rudra Narayan Pany (born 1959), an Indi n politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party
Telangana Janata Party (Telangana Peoples Party), a political party in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh working for statehood for the Telangana region.