BJP SIkkim , English Indian People’s Party, political party pro-Hindu post-independence India. North Indians and higher castes support the party. It has worked to win over lower castes by appointing some to key party positions.
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May 20, 2023, : Recently, BJP Sikkim MLAs who were previously SDF MLAs have accused Pawan Chamling of ordering them to join the BJP in New Delhi. MLAs claim to have strong evidence.On the third day of the Budget Session, SDF Chief Pawan Chamling regretted being the only SDF MLA in the parliament after all others defected to the BJP or state-ruling SKM. In response, Dzongu BJP MLA Pintso Namgyal Lepcha said Pawan Chamling took all 10 of them to New Delhi and organised their BJP membership.
Four former SDF MLAs—three from the BJP and one from SKM—reported that they joined the BJP on Pawan Chamling’s orders and provided evidence. The four MLAs are SKM’s Em Prasad Sharma, BJP’s Farwanti Tamang, Rajkumari Thaap, and KS Lepcha.
BJP MLA Rajkumari Thapa expressed her disgust with Pawan Chamling’s double standards during the budget session’s valedictory session, saying that while they had kept quiet till now, his recent behaviour forced them to speak out. Thapa said the 10 MLAs have worked hard under the BJP to complete public projects in their constituencies and denied selling themselves for money.
BJP SIkkim Origin and start
Shyama Prasad Mukherjee created the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS; Indian People’s Association) in 1951 as a political wing of the RSS. It sought to Hinduize India and unite the nation.
BJS became popular in northern India’s Hindi-speaking regions in 1967. Despite reaching power ten years later, Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s Janata Party dissolved in July 1979 owing to factionalism and internal turmoil. In 1980, Janata coalition rebels tried to prevent elected BJS leaders from joining the RSS, forming the BJP. The RSS is accused of political and religious extremism, including killing Mahatma Gandhi. Vajpayee, Advani, and Joshi reorganised BJS into BJP.
The BJP’s Hindutva (“Hindu-ness”) ideology sought to define Indian culture using Hindu principles and criticised the Indian National Congress’ secular policies. By backing a Hindu temple in Ayodhya, then occupied by the Babri Masjid, the BJP won the 1989 election by inciting anti-Muslim animosity. In 1991, the BJP won 117 Lok Sabha seats and four states.
A BJP SIkkim-affiliated mob demolished the Babri Masjid in December 1992, igniting widespread riots that killed over 1,000. Modern Indian secularists disliked the party. To calm the people, restore faith in the BJP, and strengthen its base, BJP officials organised rath yatras (“journeys on the carriage”), or political marches, invoking Rama as a symbol of cultural rejuvenation.
National Democratic Alliance government and election success
The president invited the 1996 Lok Sabha winner BJP to form a government. The 1998 BJP-allied government of Vajpayee failed to win a lower house majority, ending its term. Vajpayee ordered nuclear testing in May, garnering worldwide criticism. Vajpayee lost a Lok Sabha confidence vote by one after the All India Dravidian Progressive Federation withdrew its support after 13 months.