Today BJP turns 41 years old. Today, BJP celebrated its 41st Foundation Day. Prime Minister Modi addressed the workers on this occasion. He described the workers as the backbone of the BJP. Apart from this, BJP President JP Nadda also paid tribute to Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee and Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay.
BJP was started 41 years ago. The Bharatiya Janata Party was formed on 6 April 1980. Atal Bihari Vajpayee became the first president of the BJP. BJP contested the first Lok Sabha election in 1984. In 1984, BJP got only 2 seats. In 2019, BJP won 303 seats. Today BJP is the largest political party in the world. BJP has more than 18 crore members. Today BJP is in power in 17 states.
Performance in Lok Sabha elections
In the 1984 Lok Sabha elections, BJP got 2 seats and got 7.74 percent votes. After this, in 1989 BJP got 11.36 percent votes with 85 seats. At the same time, in 1991 BJP got 20.11 percent votes with 120 seats. Whereas in 1996 BJP got 20.29 percent votes with 161 seats. In 1998, BJP received 25.59 percent of the vote with 182 seats. Then in 1999, 182 seats got 23.75 percent of the vote. Whereas in 2014 BJP got 31.34 percent votes with 282 seats. Then in 2019, BJP got 37.76 percent of the vote with 303 seats.
BJP’s growing vote base (%)
In 1996, BJP got 19 percent OBC, 14 percent SC, 21 percent ST and 2 percent Muslim votes. At the same time, in 2019, BJP got 44 percent OBC, 34 percent SC, 44 percent ST and 8 percent Muslim votes.
BJP wavered
In 1984, BJP’s vote share was 7.74 per cent, which increased to 37.76 per cent in 2019. In 2019, the vote share of the NDA was 44.84 percent. BJP contested in 34 states and union territories in 2019. It garnered more than 50 percent vote share in 14 states. More than 50 percent of the vote share was held in 224 seats.
BJP’s strength
Strong leadership, strong organization, staunch Hindutva, a hub of decisions, expansion of the organization and discipline are the strengths of the BJP.
BJP’s political experiment
If we look at the political experiments of the BJP, it also joined hands with parties like the ideological anti-Left. Supported the Janata Dal to stop the Congress in 1989. The BJP emerged as the single largest party in the 1996 elections. In 1996, BJP got a chance to form the government for the first time. In 1998, the NDA was formed under the leadership of the BJP. Atal Bihari Vajpayee became the first non-Congress PM to complete a 5-year term. Formed government with BJD in Odisha and TDP in Andhra Pradesh. Formed government with National Conference and PDP at J&K.
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