State units of the Bharatiya Janata Party

The Bharatiya Janata Party, also commonly called the BJP (abbreviation for Bharatiya Janata Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in India, the other being the Indian National Congress. Founded by Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani in 1980, it dominates politics nationally for most of the period from 2014 onwards.[1] There have been 2 Prime Ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party, the first being Atal Bihari Vajpayee, serving as Prime Minister for 3 terms, and the second being the current Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Role of state units

According to the Constitution of the Bharatiya Janata Party,[2] the state units of the party conform to the states and union territories mentioned in the Constitution of India.

Structure of state units

The state units of the Bharatiya Janata Party are composed of two entities, the State Council and the State Executive respectively.

State Council

The state councils of each state unit consist of members elected by the district units, 10% of legislators in state legislative assembly and state legislative council, 10% of parliament members from the state, all members of national council from the state, all former state presidents, all members of the state executive, all office-bearers of a regional committee, presidents and general secretaries of the district committees, Leaders of the party in state Legislative assembly and state legislative council, chairmen of municipal corporations, municipal councils, municipalities, district councils and block development councils, nominated members by the state president and state presidents of allied morchas and cells.

List of state units

This is a list of the official state and territorial party units of the Bharatiya Janata Party.[3]

State/UT	Unit	President	Seats in Lok Sabha	Seats in Rajya Sabha	Seats in State Legislative Assemblies	Seats in State Legislative Councils	Website
All India	BJP	Jagat Prakash Nadda	303 / 543	Elected 77 / 233 Nominated 8 / 12	1,323 / 4,121	91 / 426	bjp.org
State Units of the Bharatiya Janata Party
Andhra Pradesh	BJP Andhra Pradesh	Somu Veerraju	0 / 25	4 / 11	0 / 175	Elected 3 / 50 Nominated 0 / 8	apbjp.org
Arunachal Pradesh	BJP Arunachal Pradesh	Biyuram Wahge	2 / 2	1 / 1	41 / 60
Assam	BJP Assam	Ranjit Kumar Das	9 / 14	2 / 7	60 / 126		assam.bjp.org
Bihar	BJP Bihar	Sanjay Jaiswal	17 / 40	3 / 16	54 / 243	Elected 19 / 63 Nominated 0 / 12	bihar.bjp.org
Chhattisgarh	BJP Chhattisgarh	Vishnudeo Sai	9 / 11	2 / 5	14 / 90
Goa	BJP Goa	Sadanand Tanavade	1 / 2	1 / 1	27 / 40
Gujarat	BJP Gujarat	C. R. Patil	26 / 26	7 / 11	103 / 182		bjpgujarat.org
Haryana	BJP Haryana	O. P. Dhankar	10 / 10	3 / 5	40 / 90
Himachal Pradesh	BJP Himachal Pradesh	Suresh Kumar Kashyap	4 / 4	2 / 3	44 / 68
Jharkhand	BJP Jharkhand	Deepak Prakash	11 / 14	4 / 6	26 / 81
Karnataka	BJP Karnataka	Nalin Kumar Kateel	25 / 28	5 / 13	117 / 224	Elected 22 / 64 Nominated 5 / 11	karnataka.bjp.org
Kerala	BJP Kerala	K. Surendran	0 / 20	0 / 9	1 / 140
Madhya Pradesh	BJP Madhya Pradesh	V. D. Sharma	28 / 29	8 / 11	107 / 230
Maharashtra	BJP Maharashtra	Chandrakant Bacchu Patil	23 / 48	8 / 19	105 / 288	Elected 23 / 66 Nominated 0 / 12
Manipur	BJP Manipur	S. Tikendra Singh	1 / 2	1 / 1	18 / 60
Meghalaya	BJP Meghalaya	Ernest Mawrie	0 / 2	0 / 1	2 / 60
Mizoram	BJP Mizoram	Vanlalhmuaka	0 / 1	0 / 1	1 / 40
Nagaland	BJP Nagaland	Temjen Imma Along	0 / 1	0 / 1	13 / 60
Odisha	BJP Odisha	Samir Mohanty	8 / 21	1 / 10	22 / 147
Punjab	BJP Punjab	Ashwani Kumar Sharma	2 / 13	1 / 7	2 / 117
Rajasthan	BJP Rajasthan	Satish Poonia	24 / 25	7 / 10	72 / 200		rajasthanbjp.org
Sikkim	BJP Sikkim	Dal Bahadur Chauhan	0 / 1	0 / 1	12 / 32
Tamil Nadu	BJP Tamil Nadu	L. Murugan	0 / 39	0 / 18	0 / 234
Telangana	BJP Telangana	Bandi Sanjay Kumar	4 / 17	0 / 7	1 / 119	Elected 1 / 34 Nominated 0 / 6
Tripura	BJP Tripura	Manik Saha	2 / 2	0 / 1	36 / 60
Uttar Pradesh	BJP Uttar Pradesh	Swatantra Dev Singh	62 / 80	15 / 31	309 / 403	Elected 19 / 90 Nominated 0 / 10
Uttarakhand	BJP Uttarakhand	Banshidhar Bhagat	5 / 5	1 / 3	56 / 70		uttarakhand.bjp.org
West Bengal	BJP West Bengal	Dilip Ghosh	18 / 42	0 / 16	15 / 294		bjpbengal.org
Union Territorial Units of the Bharatiya Janata Party
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	BJP Andaman and Nicobar	Ajoy Bairagi	0 / 1
Chandigarh	BJP Chandigarh	Arun Sood	1 / 1
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	BJP Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	Deepesh Thakorbhai Tandel	1 / 2
Delhi	BJP Delhi	Adesh Kumar Gupta	7 / 7	0 / 3	8 / 70		delhi.bjp.org
Jammu and Kashmir	BJP Jammu and Kashmir	Ravinder Raina	2 / 5	1 / 4	Elected 0 / 83 Nominated 0 / 2
Ladakh	BJP Ladakh	Jamyang Tsering Namgyal	1 / 1
Lakshadweep	BJP Lakshadweep	Abdul Khader Haji	0 / 1
Puducherry	BJP Puducherry	V. Saminathan	0 / 1	0 / 1	Elected 0 / 30 Nominated 3 / 3

See also

• Organisation of the Bharatiya Janata Party
• National Executive of the Bharatiya Janata Party
• List of presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party
• Leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Parliament of India
• Pradesh Congress Committee

References

1. Pratap Chandra Swain (2001). Bharatiya Janata Party: Profile and Performance. APH Publishing. p. 194, 199, 207. ISBN 978-81-7648-257-8.
2. "Bharatiya Janata Party Constitution". BJP official website. Bharatiya Janata Party. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 November 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
3. Sylvie Guichard (2 March 2013). "How Autonomous Are the Branches? A Study of Narendra Modi's BJP". jstor.org. Economic and Political Weekly. Retrieved 26 July 2020.