Although initially unsuccessful-winning only two seats in the 1984 general election-it grew in strength on the back of the movement around Ram Janmabhoomi in Uttar Pradesh. After three years in power, the Janata Party dissolved in 1980, with the members of the erstwhile Jana Sangh reconvening to form the modern-day BJP.

After The Emergency of 1975–1977, the Jana Sangh merged with several other political parties to form the Janata Party it defeated the then-incumbent Indian National Congress in the 1977 general election. The party's origins lie in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which was founded in 1951 by Indian politician Shyama Prasad Mukherjee. As of 17 February 2022, it is the country's largest political party in terms of representation in the Parliament of India as well as state legislatures. The BJP is aligned with right-wing politics, and its policies have historically reflected a traditional Hindu nationalist ideology it has close ideological and organisational links to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi, the incumbent Indian prime minister.

'Indian People's Party') is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. The Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ( listen) lit. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks or boxes, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text.

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