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[]
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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[]
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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 |
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All India | BJP | Jagat Prakash Nadda | 301 / 543
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Elected 86 / 233 Nominated9 / 12
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1,435 / 4,036
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116 / 426
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State Units of the Bharatiya Janata Party | |||||||
Andhra Pradesh | BJP Andhra Pradesh | Somu Veerraju | 0 / 25
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4 / 11
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0 / 175
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Elected 2 / 50 Nominated0 / 8
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apbjp |
Arunachal Pradesh | BJP Arunachal Pradesh | Biyuram Wahge | 2 / 2
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1 / 1
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48 / 60
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Assam | BJP Assam | Bhabesh Kalita | 9 / 14
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3 / 7
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60 / 126
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assam | |
Bihar | BJP Bihar | Sanjay Jaiswal | 17 / 40
|
4 / 16
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74 / 243
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Elected 20 / 63 Nominated
6 / 12
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bihar |
Chhattisgarh | BJP Chhattisgarh | Vishnudeo Sai | 9 / 11
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2 / 5
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14 / 90
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Goa | BJP Goa | Sadanand Tanavade | 1 / 2
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1 / 1
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27 / 40
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Gujarat | BJP Gujarat | C. R. Patil | 26 / 26
|
8 / 11
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112 / 182
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bjpgujarat | |
Haryana | BJP Haryana | O. P. Dhankar | 10 / 10
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3 / 5
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40 / 90
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bjpharyana | |
Himachal Pradesh | BJP Himachal Pradesh | Suresh Kumar Kashyap | 3 / 4
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2 / 3
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43 / 68
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Jharkhand | BJP Jharkhand | Deepak Prakash | 11 / 14
|
4 / 6
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26 / 81
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Karnataka | BJP Karnataka | Nalin Kumar Kateel | 25 / 28
|
5 / 13
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119 / 224
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Elected 27 / 64 Nominated
5 / 11
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karnataka |
Kerala | BJP Kerala | K. Surendran | 0 / 20
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0 / 9
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0 / 140
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Madhya Pradesh | BJP Madhya Pradesh | V. D. Sharma | 27 / 29
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8 / 11
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125 / 230
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Maharashtra | BJP Maharashtra | Chandrakant Bacchu Patil | 23 / 48
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8 / 19
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106 / 288
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Elected 24 / 66 Nominated
0 / 12
|
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Manipur | BJP Manipur | A Sharda Devi | 1 / 2
|
1 / 1
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24 / 60
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Meghalaya | BJP Meghalaya | 0 / 2
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0 / 1
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2 / 60
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Mizoram | BJP Mizoram | 0 / 1
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0 / 1
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1 / 40
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Nagaland | BJP Nagaland | Temjen Imma Along | 0 / 1
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0 / 1
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12 / 60
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Odisha | BJP Odisha | Samir Mohanty | 8 / 21
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1 / 10
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22 / 147
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Punjab | BJP Punjab | Ashwani Kumar Sharma | 2 / 13
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1 / 7
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2 / 117
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Rajasthan | BJP Rajasthan | Satish Poonia | 24 / 25
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7 / 10
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71 / 200
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Sikkim | BJP Sikkim | 0 / 1
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0 / 1
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12 / 32
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Tamil Nadu | BJP Tamil Nadu | K. Annamalai | 0 / 39
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0 / 18
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4 / 234
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tamilnadu | |
Telangana | BJP Telangana | Bandi Sanjay Kumar | 4 / 17
|
0 / 7
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3 / 119
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Elected 0 / 34 Nominated
0 / 6
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Tripura | BJP Tripura | 2 / 2
|
0 / 1
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36 / 60
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Uttar Pradesh | BJP Uttar Pradesh | Swatantra Dev Singh | 62 / 80
|
22 / 31
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306 / 403
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Elected 32 / 90 Nominated0 / 10
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Uttarakhand | BJP Uttarakhand | Madan Kaushik | 5 / 5
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2 / 3
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56 / 70
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uttarakhand | |
West Bengal | BJP West Bengal | Sukanta Majumdar | 17 / 42
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0 / 16
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71 / 294
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Union Territorial Units of the Bharatiya Janata Party | |||||||
Andaman and Nicobar Islands | BJP Andaman and Nicobar | Ajoy Bairagi | 0 / 1
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Chandigarh | BJP Chandigarh | Arun Sood | 1 / 1
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Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu | BJP Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu | 1 / 2
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Delhi | BJP Delhi | Adesh Kumar Gupta | 7 / 7
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0 / 3
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8 / 70
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delhi | |
Jammu and Kashmir | BJP Jammu and Kashmir | Ravinder Raina | 2 / 5
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0 / 4
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Elected 0 / 83 Nominated
0 / 2
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Ladakh | BJP Ladakh | Jamyang Tsering Namgyal | 1 / 1
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Lakshadweep | BJP Lakshadweep | 0 / 1
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Puducherry | BJP Puducherry | V. Saminathan | 0 / 1
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1 / 1
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Elected 6 / 30 Nominated
3 / 3
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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[]
- ^ Pratap Chandra Swain (2001). Bharatiya Janata Party: Profile and Performance. APH Publishing. pp. 194, 199, 207. ISBN 978-81-7648-257-8.
- ^ "Bharatiya Janata Party Constitution". BJP official website. Bharatiya Janata Party. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 November 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
- ^ 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.
- Bharatiya Janata Party by state or union territory