Bharatiya Janata Party Tuesday declared senior leader Tashi Gyalson as its candidate for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls from Ladakh constituency.
According to a news agency , Tashi Gyalson’s candidature was announced by BJP’s Chief Election Committee today as the party announced its 14th list of candidates for Lok Sabha polls.
Lok Sabha polls for Ladakh seat are slated to be held in the 5th phase on May 20.
Tashi is currently the Chairman/Chief Executive Councillor of the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP (Indian People’s Party’) is a political party in India and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under the incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The BJP is aligned with right-wing politics and has close ideological and organisational links to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) volunteer paramilitary organisation. As of January 2024, it is the country’s biggest political party in terms of representation in the Parliament of India as well as state legislatures.
The party’s origins lie in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which was founded in 1951 by Indian politician Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, after he left Hindu Mahasabha to form a party as the political wing of RSS. After the Emergency of 1975–1977, the Jana Sangh merged with several other political parties to form the Janata Party; it defeated the then-incumbent Indian National Congress in the 1977 general election. After three years in power, the Janata Party dissolved in 1980, with the members of the erstwhile Jana Sangh reconvening to form the modern-day BJP. Although initially unsuccessful—winning only two seats in the 1984 general election, it grew in strength on the back of the movement around Ram Janmabhoomi in Uttar Pradesh.
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