Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh
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Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh (अखिल भारतीय जनसंघ, All India Popular Union) is a Hindu nationalist
Hindu nationalism
Hindu nationalism has been collectively referred to as the expressions of social and political thought, based on the native spiritual and cultural traditions of historical India...

 political party
Political party
A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

 in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. The party claims to be the authentic Bharatiya Jan Sangh, which is the precursor of the Bharatiya Janata Party
Bharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party ,; translation: Indian People's Party) is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Indian National Congress. Established in 1980, it is India's second largest political party in terms of representation in the parliament...

. ABJS was founded by Balraj Madhok
Balraj Madhok
Balraj Madhok was a president of Bharatiya Jan Sangh and a senior politician of India in 1960s. He was born at Skardu in the former princely state of Kashmir and Jammu . He started his academic and political career in Jammu and Kashmir...

, a former general secretary of BJS who had been expelled from that party in 1973, after he left the Janata Party
Janata Party
The Janata Party was an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the state of emergency imposed by the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her Indian National Congress...

 in 1979. Madhok remains a leading figure in ABJS.

The general secretary of ABJS is Prafull Goradia, a former BJP Rajya Sabha
Rajya Sabha
The Rajya Sabha or Council of States is the upper house of the Parliament of India. Rajya means "state," and Sabha means "assembly hall" in Sanskrit. Membership is limited to 250 members, 12 of whom are chosen by the President of India for their expertise in specific fields of art, literature,...

 MP.http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20041006/nation.htm

ABJS presses for rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits and scrapping of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution.
ABJS
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