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Bharatiya Janata Party
History of India
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| | 1952 | Mookerjee, Syama Prasad | |
| The Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS, Indian People's Union) is founded by Syama Prasad Mookerjee, a Bengali nationalist leader, former Union Minister and freedom-fighter
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| 1953 | Mookerjee, Syama Prasad | |
| Fortunes of the young Bharatiya Janata Party flounder when Mookherjee dies in Kashmir in jail during a protest
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| 1975 | Vajpayee, Atal Behari | |
| When Indira Gandhi imposes a state of emergency, postponing elections and misusing major central powers granted to her by the Constitution, the BJS join coalition of parties in active protest, Vajpayee is arrested
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| 1977 | Vajpayee, Atal Behari | |
| When Gandhi calls elections, the BJS invests all its political and organizational capital in merging into the new Janata Party, a unified opposition party
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| 1980 | Vajpayee, Atal Behari | |
| Dec The BJP is re-founded under the direct leadership of the duumvirate of Vajpayee and Advani
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| 1998 | Advani, Lal Krishna | |
| The BJP, in alliance with several other parties, led the Government of India between 1998 and 2004, under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani
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| 1998 | Vajpayee, Atal Behari | |
| The BJP, in alliance with several other parties, led the Government of India between 1998 and 2004, under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani
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