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The NDA crossed 100 Rajya Sabha seats on Friday, further consolidating the BJP as Indias dominant political force in its 40th year.

The Bharatiya Janata Party was formed in April, 1980, after its members were expelled from the Janata Party, the joint opposition force that was launched three years before that to counter Indira Gandhi. One of the components of the Janata Party was the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, launched in 1951.

According to its own record, the Jana Sangh was the result of three events. First the death of Vallabhbhai Patel in December 1950, second the resignation of Syama Prasad Mookerjee from the Nehru government the same year, and the election also in 1950 and subsequent forcing out of PD Tandon as Congress president.

Tandon was seen as a Hindu conservative opposed to Nehrus secularism and after Patels death, Nehru forced Tandon to resign.Another event, also acknowledged by the Jana Sangh as being important to its formation, was the banning of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh after the murder of Gandhi in 1948 and the arrest of its leader MS Golwalkar. The RSS was not registered as a political organisation and the ban was lifted in 1949, on the condition that the RSS adopt a constitution, which it agreed to do.

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