Entry Into Politics
Vijayaraje was initiated into electoral politics in 1962 when she contested the Guna Lok Sabha seat in Madhya Pradesh on a Congress ticket. Five years later, she quit the Congress and joined the Hindu Nationalist Bharatiya Jan Sangh. She won the Kerera assembly seat as the party's candidate and plunged headlong into state politics. She went on to win seven consecutive parliamentary elections. She was jailed by Indira Gandhi during the Emergency. In the 1970s, Vijayraje and her son Madhavrao were involved in a public dispute over property. Animosities heightened due to their differing political ideologies.
Vijayaraje came to the forefront of the BJP leadership in 1980 when she was made one of its vice-presidents. She played a key role in propagating the party's Ramjanmabhoomi agenda and was considered a hardliner. She remained a BJP vice-president until 1998 when she stepped down on health grounds and quit electoral politics. She died in January 2001.
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