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INDIA - POLITICS -
Janata Party (JNP) |
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Anti-Congress coalition |
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- Janata Party was an club of Indian political parties
opposed to the Emergency that was imposed between 1975 and
1977 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Indian National
Congress.
- 1977: In the general election, the party
defeated the Congress and Janata leader Morarji Desai became
the first non-Congress prime minister in independent India's
history.
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Aug 11, 2013: |
On this day, party Chairman Subramanian Swamy merged the Janata
Party with the Bharatiya Janata Party in presence of BJP
president Rajnath Singh. |
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Jul 19, 1979: |
On this day, Morarji Desai resigned from the government and
eventually retired to his home in Mumbai (then Bombay).
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Mar 24, 1977: |
On this day, Jayaprakash Narayan and J.B. Kripalani led the
newly elected Janata MPs to Raj Ghat, where the ashes of Mahatma
Gandhi were laid, and administered a pledge to continue Gandhi's
work and preserve honesty in serving the nation.
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Mar 23, 1977: |
On this day, it was announced that the Janata party had won a
sweeping victory, securing 43.2% of the popular vote and 271
seats. With the support of the Akali Dal and the Congress for
Democracy, it had amassed a two-thirds, or absolute majority of
345 seats.
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Feb 10, 1977: |
The Janata manifesto was released on this day, which declared
that the coming election presented voters with:
a choice between freedom and
slavery; between democracy and dictatorship; between
abdicating the power of the people and asserting it; between
the Gandhian
path and the way that
has led many nations down the precipice of dictatorship,
instability, military adventure and national ruin.
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Feb 02, 1977: |
A former Minister of Defence, Jagjivan Ram left the Congress (R)
and along with his supporters formed the Congress
for Democracy on
2 this day. Other
co-founders included the former Chief
Minister of Orissa Nandini
Satpathy,
former Union Minister of State for Finance K. R. Ganesh, former
M.P. D. N. Tiwari and Bihar politician Raj Mangal Pandey. |
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Jan 23, 1977: |
The Janata party was officially launched on this day when the
Janata Morcha, Charan Singh's Bharatiya Lok Dal, Swatantra
Party, the Socialist Party of India of Raj Narain and George
Fernandes, and the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) joined together,
dissolving their separate identities (the merger of all party
organisations was to be completed after the election).
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Jan 18, 1977: |
Calling elections on this day, the government released political
prisoners and weakened restrictions and censorship on the press,
although the state of emergency was not officially ended. When
opposition leaders sought the support of Jayaprakash Narayan for
the forthcoming election, Narayan insisted that all opposition
parties form a united front.
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Jun 25, 1975: |
The President of India, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, accepted prime
minister Indira Gandhi's recommendation to declare a state of
national emergency. Indira Gandhi argued that the political and
civil disorder constituted a threat to national security.
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Jun 12, 1975: |
Raj Narain, a socialist leader, had filed a legal writ alleging
electoral malpractice against Indira Gandhi in 1971. On this
day, Allahabad High Court found her guilty of using corrupt
electoral practices in her 1971 election victory over Raj Narain
in the Rae Bareli constituency. She was barred from contesting
any election for the next six years.
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