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P.P.Sarsanghchalak Balasaheb Deoras : The man behind BJP’s rise

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P.P.Sarsanghchalak  Balasaheb Deoras : The man behind BJP’s rise T he quarter-century from 1971 to 1996 witnessed some of the most transformational events in Indian history that changed the socio-political discourse and led to a tectonic shift in the Indian polity. It began with war against Pakistan and ended with Atal Behari Vajpayee becoming Prime Minister. It saw the best and worst of Indira Gandhi’s leadership in a span of four years (from the 1971 war to the 1975 Emergency), the Janata Party’s rise and fall, the extremism in Punjab, mass conversion of dalits to Islam in nakshipuram, Indira Gandhi’s tragic assassination, the peak of appeasement politics, rising Pakistani-sponsored jihadi terrorism, the BJP’s emergence as a strong alternative to the Congress — to list just a few. It also witnessed some of the most prominent social movements and unrest in post-Independence India like the agitation against the Emergency, the Assam agitation against illegal infiltration from B...

BJP HISTORY : It’s Birth and Early Growth.

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JAI JAI BHARAT जय जय भारत BJP HISTORY : It’s Birth and Early Growth By Late Shri K.R. Malkani (19-11-1921 to 27-10-2003) (Ex-Vice-President of BJP) and Lt. Governor Pondicherry (31-7-2002 to 27-10-2003) Bharatiya Janata Party is today the most prominent member of the family of organisations known as the “Sangh Parivar”. And RSS has always been dubbed “communal”, “reactionary” and what not by its detractors. Sanghs of swayamsevaks have of course always shaken off that criticism like so much water off a duck’s back. They have never had any doubt that the organisation is wedded to national unity, national integrity, national identity and national strength through individual character and national character. And today this organisation is poised for a great leap forward. Even its long- time detractors think and say that now BJP is “unstoppable”. What is the story of this national epic? History is the philosophy of nations. And the Sangh Parivar has a very clear and candid conc...