The Bharatiya Janata Party, or simply, BJP Jammu and Kashmir (BJP; [bʱaːɾət̪iːjə dʒənət̪aː paːrtiː] ; lit. 'Indian People's Party'), is the unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party of the Union Territory, Jammu and Kashmir. Its head office is situated at Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookherjee Bhawan, Sector - 3 Extension, Trikuta Nagar, Jammu - 180 012, Jammu and Kashmir.[9] The current president of BJP, Jammu and Kashmir is Sat Paul Sharma[1]
Bharatiya Janata Party, Jammu and Kashmir भारतीय जनता पार्टी, जम्मू कश्मीर | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | BJP |
| President | Sat Paul Sharma[1] |
| Founder | |
| Founded | 6 April 1980 |
| Split from | Janata Party |
| Preceded by |
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| Headquarters | Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookherjee Bhawan, Sector - 3 Extension, Trikuta Nagar, Jammu - 180 012 Jammu and Kashmir[3] |
| Newspaper | Kamal Sandesh |
| Youth wing | Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha |
| Women's wing | BJP Mahila Morcha |
| Labour wing | Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh[4] |
| Peasant's wing | Bharatiya Kisan Sangh[5] |
| Ideology | |
| International affiliation | |
| Colours | Saffron |
| Alliance | |
| Seats in Lok Sabha | 2 / 5 (as of 2024)
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| Seats in Rajya Sabha | 0 / 4 (as of 2024)
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| Seats in Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly | 29 / 90 (as of 2024)
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| Seats in Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council | 0 / 36 (as of 2024)
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| Election symbol | |
Lotus | |
| Party flag | |
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| Website | |
| jkbjp | |
Electoral performance
editLok Sabha Election
edit| Year | Seats won | +/- | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 0 / 6
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new | Opposition |
| 1989 | 0 / 6
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Opposition |
| 1991 | Election not held because of insurgency until 1996 | Opposition | |
| 1996 | 1 / 6
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 1
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Government, later Opposition |
| 1998 | 2 / 6
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1
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Government |
| 1999 | 2 / 6
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| 2004 | 0 / 6
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 2
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Opposition |
| 2009 | 0 / 6
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| 2014 | 3 / 6
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3
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Government |
| 2019 | 3 / 6
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| After Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir | |||
| 2024 | 2 / 5
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Government |
Rajya Sabha Election
edit| Name | Photo | Date of appointment |
Date of retirement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shamsheer Singh Manhas | 11/2/2015 | 10/2/2021 |
Legislative Assembly Election
edit| Year | Seats won | +/- | Voteshare (%) | +/- (%) | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 0 / 76 |
New | 3.19% | New | opposition |
| 1987 | 2 / 76 |
2 |
5.10% | 1.91%
| |
| 1996 | 8 / 87 |
6 |
12.13% | 7.03%
| |
| 2002 | 1 / 87 |
7 |
8.57% | 3.56%
| |
| 2008 | 11 / 87 |
10 |
12.45% | 3.88%
| |
| 2014 | 25 / 87 |
14 |
23.0% | 10.55% |
Coalition Government with PDP |
| After Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir | |||||
| 2024 | 29 / 90 |
4 |
25.64% | 2.64% |
opposition |
75 / 278
Municipal corporation
edit43 / 75
4 / 74
Leadership
edit| No | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term | Assembly | Chief minister | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 
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Nirmal Kumar Singh | Billawar | 4 April 2016 | 29 April 2018 | 2 years, 25 days | 12th | Mehbooba Mufti |
| 2 | 
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Kavinder Gupta | Gandhinagar | 30 April 2018 | 19 June 2018 | 50 days | ||
List of opposition leaders
edit| No | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term | Assembly | Chief Minister | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sunil Kumar Sharma | Padder–Nagseni | 3 November 2024 | Incumbent | 40 days | 13th | Omar Abdullah | |
Elected members
editIncumbent member(s) of Lok Sabha
edit| S.No. | Constituency | Portrait | Name | Win Margin in 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Name | ||||
| 01. | 4 | Udhampur | 
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Jitendra Singh | 1,24,373 |
| 02. | 5 | Jammu | 
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Jugal Kishore Sharma | 1,35,498 |
Incumbent member(s) of Legislative Assembly
editList of State Presidents
edit- Sat Pal Sharma : 2024-incumbent
- Ravinder Raina : 2018-2024
- Sat Pal Sharma : 2015-2018
- Jugal Kishore Sharma : 2012-2015
- Shamser Singh Manhas : 2010-2012
- Ashok Khajuria : 2006-2010
- Dr.Nirmal Singh : 2002-2006
- Daya Krishnan Kotwal : 1996-2002
- Vaid Vishnu Dutt : 1994-1996
- Chaman Lal Gupta : 1989-1994
- Baldev Singh : 1980-1989[10]
See Also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Sat Sharma appointed as Jammu and Kashmir BJP president". The Hindu. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "What you need to know about India's BJP". AlJazeera. 23 May 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ^ "BJP J&K unit address".
- ^ Pragya Singh (15 January 2008). "Need to Know BJP-led BMS is biggest labour union in India". live mint. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ Gupta, Sejuta Das (2019e). Class, Politics, and Agricultural Policies in Post-liberalisation India. Cambridge University Press. pp. 172–173. ISBN 978-1-108-41628-3.
- ^ Pillalamarri, Akhilesh. "India's Bharatiya Janata Party Joins Union of International Conservative Parties — The Diplomat". The Diplomat. Archived from the original on 28 February 2016.
- ^ "Members". idu.org. International Democrat Union. February 2018. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
- ^ "International Democrat Union » Asia Pacific Democrat Union (APDU)". International Democrat Union. Archived from the original on 16 June 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
- ^ "BJP J&K unit address".
- ^ https://jkbjp.in/leadership/state-presidents/