Question

Who was the founder President of Bharatiya Jana Sangh?
A. B.R Ambedkar
B. Somnath Lahiri
C. H.C. Mookherjee
D. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

Answer 1

Hint:The Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) was a political party of the Indian right that existed from 1951 to 1977 and was the political arm of the Hindutva charitable organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

Complete Answer:In 1977, Bharatiya Jana Sangh merged and established the Janata Party with several other lefts, middle, and right extremists opposed to the Indian National Congress. In 1980, over the issue of dual representation (of the political Janata Party and the social organization RSS), the Jana Sangh group drifted away from the Janata Party and established the Bharatiya Janata Party. In Indian elections, the emblem of the party was an oil lamp and, like the RSS, its ideology was focused on Hindutva. BJS earned three seats in the national elections to the Parliament of India in 1952, Mookerjee being among the winning candidates. The BJS would also pair up with the center-right Swatantra Party of Chakravarti Rajagopalachari on issues and concerns. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee is one of the people who is the founder and was the president of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh party, in the year 1951. He was also the Hindu Mahasabha President of Akhil Bharatiya from 1943 to 1946. He died in Jammu and Kashmir Police custody in 1953. He was temporarily diagnosed with a heart attack and admitted to a hospital, but died a day later. In 2004, Atal Bihari Vajpayee alleged that he was assassinated in a "Nehru conspiracy. "Mukherjee is also known as the pioneer of the Bharatiya Janata Party because the Bharatiya Janata Party is the descendant to the Bhartiya Jana Sangh.

Option D. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee is the correct answer.

Note:In 1929, when he joined the Bengal legislative body as an Indian National Congress (INC) member representing Calcutta University, Mukherjee entered politics. The next year, however, he quit when the INC elected to abandon the legislature. Consequently, as an independent candidate, he sought the election and was won in the same year. In 1937, in the elections for the Krishak Praja Party-All India Muslim League alliance, he was elected as an independent