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After 1949, members of the right-wing Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) began to contemplate the formation of a political party to continue their work, begun in the days of the [[British Raj]], and take their ideology further. Around the same time, [[Syama Prasad Mukherjee]] left the [[Hindu Mahasabha]] political party that he had once led because of a disagreement with that party over permitting non-Hindu membership.{{sfn|Urmila Sharma|SK Sharma|2001|p=381}}{{sfn|Kedar Nath Kumar|1990|pp=20–21}}{{sfn|Islam|2006b|p=227}} The BJS was subsequently started by Mukherjee on 21 October 1951<ref>{{cite web|title=Founding of Jan Sangh|url=http://www.bjp.org/en/about-the-party/history?u=founder |website=www.bjp.org |access-date=25 January 2019}}</ref> in [[Delhi]], with the collaboration of the RSS, as a "nationalistic alternative" to the [[Indian National Congress|Congress Party]].<ref name=IEGuinha>{{cite news|title=Revive Jan Sangh -- BJP hardlines|url=http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/20000118/ina18037.html|access-date=11 October 2013|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]]|date=18 January 2000|author=Sharad Gupta|author2=Sanjiv Sinha|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012195411/http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/20000118/ina18037.html|archive-date=12 October 2013}}</ref> | After 1949, members of the right-wing Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) began to contemplate the formation of a political party to continue their work, begun in the days of the [[British Raj]], and take their ideology further. Around the same time, [[Syama Prasad Mukherjee]] left the [[Hindu Mahasabha]] political party that he had once led because of a disagreement with that party over permitting non-Hindu membership.{{sfn|Urmila Sharma|SK Sharma|2001|p=381}}{{sfn|Kedar Nath Kumar|1990|pp=20–21}}{{sfn|Islam|2006b|p=227}} The BJS was subsequently started by Mukherjee on 21 October 1951<ref>{{cite web|title=Founding of Jan Sangh|url=http://www.bjp.org/en/about-the-party/history?u=founder |website=www.bjp.org |access-date=25 January 2019}}</ref> in [[Delhi]], with the collaboration of the RSS, as a "nationalistic alternative" to the [[Indian National Congress|Congress Party]].<ref name=IEGuinha>{{cite news|title=Revive Jan Sangh -- BJP hardlines|url=http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/20000118/ina18037.html|access-date=11 October 2013|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]]|date=18 January 2000|author=Sharad Gupta|author2=Sanjiv Sinha|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012195411/http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/20000118/ina18037.html|archive-date=12 October 2013}}</ref> | ||
The symbol of the party in Indian elections was an oil lamp and, like the RSS, its ideology was centred on [[Hindutva]]. In the [[1951–52 Indian general election|1952 general elections]] to the [[Parliament of India]], BJS won three seats, Mukherjee being one of the winning candidates. The BJS would often link up on issues and debates with the centre-right [[Swatantra Party]] of [[Chakravarti Rajagopalachari]]. After the death of Mukherjee in 1953, RSS activists in the BJS edged out the career politicians and made it a political arm of the RSS and an integral part of the [[RSS family of organisations]] (''Sangh Parivar'').<ref>{{citation |first=Pralaya |last=Kanungo |title=Myth of the Monolith: The RSS Wrestles to Discipline Its Political Progeny |journal=Social Scientist |volume=34 |pages=51–69 |number=11/12 |date=November 2006 |jstor=27644183}}</ref> | |||
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