Bharatiya Janata Party: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Indian People’s Party • BJP
Date	1980 - present
Areas Of Involvement	Hindutva • Hinduism
Related People	K. Annamalai • Amit Shah • Narendra Modi • S. Jaishankar • Sunny Deol • Himanta Biswa Sarma • Nirmala Sitharaman • Gautam Gambhir • Atal Bihari Vajpayee • Hema Malini • Yogi Adityanath • Dharmendra • Sushma Swaraj • Rajnath Singh • Yashwant Sinha

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Rally for the Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Annamalai Kuppusamy, a former IPS officer, addresses the media after joining the Bharatiya Janata Party at the partys headquarters on August 25, 2020, in New Delhi, India.

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