All India Rashtriya Janata Party

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All India Rashtriya Janata Party ( AIRJP , " All India National People's Party") was a short-lived party in India , mainly in the state of Gujarat , which existed from 1996 to 1998.

Party history

AIRJP was founded in 1996 by Shankersinh Vaghela . Varghela has been politically active for decades, first in the Jan Sangh (until 1975), then in the Janata Party and from 1980 in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He became one of the leading BJP politicians in Gujarat. In 1995 the BJP won the Gujarat general election with 42.5% of the vote and 121 of the 182 constituencies. The BJP parliamentary group voted in favor of Vaghela as the new Chief Minister to be elected , but the BJP party leadership in Delhi pushed through that Keshubhai Patel was elected as the new Chief Minister. In September 1995 there was an open rift in the BJP parliamentary group in Gujarat. 48 MPs with Vaghela at their head rebelled against the party leadership. In a compromise, Patel was replaced as Chief Minister and succeeded by Suresh Mehta , a confidante of Vaghela. In the all-India parliamentary election in 1996 , Vaghela lost his longstanding constituency 18-Godhra to a Congress Party candidate. A short time later, Vaghela announced his resignation from the BJP and the formation of a new party, the All India Rashtriya Janata Party . With parliamentary support from the Congress Party, he was elected Chief Minister in Gujarat in October 1996. His reign did not last long, however, and in October 1997 he had to give up the post of Chief Minister to the ex-BJP politician Dilip Parikh . Its government did not last long either, and in 1998 there were new elections to the Gujarat parliament, which the BJP won with a large majority. In the all- India parliamentary election in 1998 , the AIRJP nominated candidates in 7 states and union territories, won more than 2 million votes nationwide and won one constituency, 12-Sheohar in Bihar . Varghela joined the Congress party in May 1998 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed October 23, 2015 (English, election results of all Indian elections to the Lok Sabha and the parliaments of the states since independence).
  2. ^ Achyut Yagnik, Suchitra Sheth: The Shaping Of Modern Gujarat. Penguin Books, London 2005, ISBN 978-01-4400-038-8 , pp. 286ff .
  3. ^ VK Chakravarti: Gujarat heads for a straight Cong-BJP fight. The Indian Express, August 31, 1999, accessed October 23, 2015 .