... is hoping to retain his position. Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) or JD(U) is part of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Impacts Modi’s recent liberal market ...
Tópico(s): Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
2020 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Emerald expert briefings
... s major ally in 1998 was the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), associated with Laloo Prasad Yadav of Bihar; the RJD won 17 seats. Where data are not readily available, Congress allies are generally part of the “Others” category. 4. The United Front (UF) was a loose coalition of some ...
1998 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Journal of democracy
... Singh (Congress Party) had led a coalition – the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) – for five years. The UPA was formed after the 2004 election, when the Congress Party emerged as the largest party but more than 100 seats short of a majority. Many smaller parties had joined the Congress alliance, such as the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhakam (DMK). The ...
Tópico(s): South Asian Studies and Conflicts
2009 - Elsevier BV | Electoral Studies
... that led to their combining to form the Janata Party, which represented a united opposition to the then Prime Minister Mrs Indira ... engagements among the leaders of the Bharatiya Lok Dal (BLD), Congress (O), Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) and the Socialist Party (SP) before, during and after the emergency and contends that Janata’s creation was neither a foregone conclusion nor ...
Tópico(s): Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
2016 - SAGE Publishing | History and Sociology of South Asia
... title as Member of Parliament of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)—which was buoyed by a landslide ... violence, and raids conducted by VHP and Bajrang Dal, the youth wing of RSS. Impoverished villagers, who ... the country’s Hindu religious leaders and Bajrang Dal to target its youth. Then, in 1980, the ... under international scrutiny, even banned from entering the United States, for his role in the Gujarat massacre. ...
Tópico(s): Indian History and Philosophy
2015 - SAGE Publishing | World Policy Journal