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Also Known As	Indian People’s Party • BJP
Date	1980 - present
Areas Of Involvement	Hindutva • Hinduism
Related People	Amit Shah • Narendra Modi • Atal Bihari Vajpayee • Yogi Adityanath • Sushma Swaraj • Rajnath Singh • Yashwant Sinha • Vasundhara Raje • Droupadi Murmu • Arun Jaitley • Lal Krishna Advani • Ram Nath Kovind

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