Indian People's Party

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{{Infobox political party|name=Indian People's Party|native_name=भारतीय जनता पार्टी|logo=BJP logo.svg|founded=6 April 1980|political_orientation=[[Neo-fascism]]}}

The '''Indian People's Party''', known as the '''Bharatiya Janata Party''' ('''BJP''') in Hindi, is a [[reactionary]] [[Nationalism|nationalist]] party in [[Republic of India|India]] that ruled from the 1990s to 2004 and again from 2014 to the present day. It targeted [[Islam|Muslims]] and [[Communism|communists]] while allowing foreign corporations to take over India's economy.<ref name=":1222">{{Citation|author=[[Vijay Prashad]]|year=2008|title=The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World|chapter=New Delhi|page=218|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzaceascnzh26r5d6uitjjs2z7rflhaxlt7rboz5whzdf76qg6xxvecqq?filename=%28A%20New%20Press%20People%27s%20history%29%20Vijay%20Prashad%20-%20The%20darker%20nations_%20a%20people%27s%20history%20of%20the%20third%20world-The%20New%20Press%20%282008%29.pdf|publisher=The New Press|isbn=9781595583420|lg=https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=9B40B96E830128A7FE0E0E887C06829F}}</ref> Current prime minister [[Narendra Modi]] is a member of the party.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=[[Ben Norton]]|newspaper=[[Geopolitical Economy Report]]|title=US woos India’s far-right PM Modi to help wage new cold war on China|date=2023-06-23|url=https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/06/23/us-india-far-right-modi-cold-war-china/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230626071224/https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/06/23/us-india-far-right-modi-cold-war-china/|archive-date=2023-06-26}}</ref>

== See also ==

* [[National Volunteer Organisation|RSS]]

== References ==
[[Category:Political parties]]

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