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By Express News ServiceBENGALURU: The political ideology that creates a political party, once crystallised, articulated, defined and structured for dissemination and for generating a political discussion becomes the ideology of the party. The ideological underpinnings of the political movement of the Jana Sangh and BJP continue to remain active and its ideas remain in circulation. Shiwanand DwivediThe BJP, inheritor of the Jana Sangh’s legacy, owes its birth to the ‘idea of nationalism’. This political idea is best explained in the words of Kushabhau Thakre, himself:This [nationalism] is the core of our ideology; for us India is one nation, one people and one culture. Rashtravad (nationalism) remains the BJP’s political ideology and Antyoday (empowering and elevating the last citizen) continues to be its governance ideology and ultimate goal..