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In the battleground state of Uttar Pradesh, the BJP won a majority of the 403 seats, according to the Election Commission of India. The northern state is the country’s most populous and is considered a political bellwether. It sends more legislators to Parliament than any other state and was key to Modi’s victories in previous national elections. In the agrarian state of Punjab in northern India, a regional party known as the Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party, or AAP, won handsomely over the incumbent Indian National Congress. With its victory in Punjab, the AAP, which controls the Delhi capital region, became the first regional party in decades to capture power in more than one state. The bitterly fought state elections, particularly in Uttar Pradesh, have been held in staggered phases over more than a month. They were billed as a battle for India’s future, in which voter preferences would either burnish the BJP’s Hindu nationalist agenda or challenge what critics call the country’s tilt toward But the BJP’s win in Uttar Pradesh, experts say, again reinforces the dominance of the 71-year-old Modi in the country of more than 1.3 billion people for the foreseeable future. Modi in recent years has grown a long white beard, a move seen as an attempt to cast himself as a sage-like figure towering over the country’s contemporary political life. The latest victory is likely to help the BJP forge ahead with its controversial agenda, including implementing a citizenship law that exclud...

JAMMU/SRINAGAR, India, Jan 12 (Reuters) - For the first time in her life, Asha, a street cleaner in the Indian city of Jammu, will be allowed to vote in upcoming local elections. And she's in no doubt who will get her ballot. Asha plans to reward Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for scrapping policies in place for decades that denied her and a million more people in the region of Jammu and Kashmir many of the same rights as other Indians. "We have faced the humiliation silently, but Modi-ji has changed our lives forever," she said, leaning on her broom. "It's not just me and my children, future generations from our community in Jammu and Kashmir will vote for the BJP." The Hindu nationalist party is counting on Asha's vote as it pushes to take control of India's part of the Himalayan region that is hotly contested by neighbouring Pakistan and has been governed almost exclusively by Muslim chief ministers. The BJP hopes the addition of up to a million mostly Hindu voters to the electoral roll, new electoral boundaries, seven more seats in the regional assembly and the reservation of nine for groups likely to back the BJP will give it a fighting chance of becoming the biggest party in the 90-seat legislature. Reuters has interviewed three dozen federal and state officials, six groups representing disenfranchised residents, and analysed the latest data to lay out for the first time the scale of the BJP's push in Kashmir - and why it may succe...

But the seminal victory of two BJP leaders — Chandupatla Janga Reddy from Andhra Pradesh and AK Patel from Gujarat — gave the party a much-needed ballast to take on the then mighty Congress in the years to come. The BJP saw a steady increase in its seat tally in subsequent general election (except in 2004 and 2009). It won 85 seats in 1989 and crossed double digits in 1991. In 2014 and 2019, the party scripted historic victories under Prime Minister Just like its seat share, the BJP also saw a steady rise in its vote share as it cemented itself as the other main national party of India. As the BJP grew from strength to strength, its principal opponent Congress witnessed a constant decline in state and national elections. The grand old party, which ruled India for multiple decades, saw its seat share in Lok Sabha dwindle from a high of 415 in 1984 to just 44 in 2014. In 2019, the party managed to secure just 52 seats in the lower house. Even at the provincial-level, the BJP is now in power in 18 states — 12 on its own and 6 in coalition. On the other hand, the Congress is left with governments in just Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. The chart above shows how the BJP has left Congress far behind across all political parameters. Dominating both houses After expanding its footprint across states, the BJP has managed to touch the 100-mark in Rajya Sabha for the first time, becoming the first party since 1990 to cross the threshold. Although BJP's tally will once again drop below 10...

Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to explore the nuances of Hindu support for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). It is based on the June 2021 report “ Respondents were selected using a probability-based sample design that would allow for robust analysis of all major religious groups in India, as well as all major regional zones. Six groups were targeted for oversampling as part of the survey design: Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and those living in the Northeast region. Data was weighted to account for the different probabilities of selection among respondents and to align with demographic benchmarks for the Indian adult population from the 2011 census. Here are In 2019, roughly half of Hindu voters (49%) supported the BJP, giving the party a majority in the Lok Sabha – India’s lower house of parliament – and allowing Prime Minister Narendra Modi a Among Hindus, the BJP received some of its highest vote shares in the Northern (68%) and Central (65%) regions of the country, which include India’s capital, Delhi, and its most populous state, Uttar Pradesh. By comparison, 46% of Hindu voters in the East and just 19% in the South say they voted for the BJP, according to the Center’s survey. In the South, significant shares of Hindu voters (20%) say they instead supported the Indian National Congress (INC), which has led the country for most of the years since its independence. Regional parties, including the Differences in voting patterns between ...

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), English Indian People’s Party, Pro-Hindu political party of India. The BJP traces its roots to the the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (founded in 1951), which advocated the rebuilding of India in accordance with Hindu culture. The BJP was formally established in 1980. It achieved its first significant electoral success in 1989, though in 1992 the destruction of the Babri Mosjid (Mosque of Bābur) in Ayodhya caused a backlash against it. In 1996 the BJP formed a short-lived government. Two years later the party and its allies formed a majority government with Atal Bihari Vajpayee as prime minister. Vajpayee again became prime minister in 1998 as head of a coalition of the BJP and other parties. In 2004, however, the coalition was defeated in parliamentary elections, and Vajpayee resigned from office. Related Article Summaries

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