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by Tomislav Todorovic, 13 November 2011
Jan Kranti Party was founded in Lucknow on 2010-01-05 by Kalyan Singh, former
member of Bharatiya Janata Party and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in three
terms, and his son Rajvir Singh, who became its first president [1, 2]. The
party flag is orange-green-orange horizontal triband and was adopted along with
the founding of the party [3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. Colors of the flag are the same as
those of Bharatiya Janata Party; the choice was certainly intentional, because
the new party has announced that its ideology will be based on �aggressive
Hindutva and nationalism�, which, according to Kalyan Singh, his former party
has abandoned [5]. Orange/saffron itself is often considered the symbol of
Hindutuva, and in combination with green it does make a link with Kalyan Singh's
former career, which includes a rather controversial role in case of demolition
of Babri Mosque in Ayodhya in 1992 [2], the event which caused riots with
numerous victims throughout India.
Sources:
[1] Wikipedia page about
Jan Kranti Party:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Kranti_Party
[2] Wikipedia page about
Kalyan Singh:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalyan_Singh
[3] The Tribune website - page
of 2010-01-06:
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100106/nation.htm (Image:
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100106/nation2.jpg)
[4] OneIndia news
portal (in Hindi):
http://hindi.oneindia.in/news/2010/01/05/kalyanpartyadas.html
[5] Deccan
Herald website:
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/45055/kalyan-pursue-aggressive-hindutva.html
(Image:
www.deccanherald.com/images/editor_images/Jan%202010/Jan%205%202010/kalyan-singh-200-jan-5.jpg)
[6] TimesContent website - photo of Kalyan Singh:
http://www.timescontent.com/syndication-photos/reprint/news/171853/kalyan-singh.html
[7] TimesContent website - photo of Kalyan and Rajvir Singh:
http://www.timescontent.com/syndication-photos/reprint/news/171860/rajveer-singh-kalyan-singh.html