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Bharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is an Indian political party founded in 1980 as the successor of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, with close links to the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. It rose through the Ayodhya campaign of the late 1980s and early 1990s and led coalition governments under Atal Bihari Vajpayee from 1998 to 2004. Under Narendra Modi it won outright majorities in 2014 and 2019 and has governed India since 2014.
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