Bharatiya Janata Party, Maharashtra

Bharatiya Janata Party, Maharashtra (or BJP Maharashtra) is a state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Indian state of Maharashtra The headquarters is located in Mumbai.

Bharatiya Janata Party, Maharashtra
भारतीय जनता पार्टी, महाराष्ट्र
AbbreviationBJP
LeaderDevendra Fadnavis (Chief Minister)
PresidentChandrashekhar Bawankule
HeadquartersDadar, Mumbai, Maharashtra
Colours  Saffron
ECI StatusNational Party
Seats in Lok Sabha
9 / 48
Seats in Rajya Sabha
8 / 19
Seats in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
132 / 288
Seats in Maharashtra Legislative Council
23 / 78
Election symbol
Lotus
Party flag
Website
bjpmaharashtra.org

The BJP came into being after a split from the Janata party. The prominent members of BJP had been the part of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh founded by Syama Prasad Mukherjee. Jana Sangh was the political arm of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and was dissolved in 1977. On 12 August 2022, Chandrashekhar Bawankule was appointed by the party leadership as the president of the BJP Maharashtra.

The BJP is aligned with right-wing politics, and its policies adhere to Hindutva, a Hindu nationalist ideology. It has close ideological and organisational links to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). As of September 2019, it is the maharashtra's biggest political party in terms of representation in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra State as well as state legislatures.

Lok Sabha elections

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Year Seats won +/-
1984
0 / 28
 
1989
11 / 48
  11
1991
5 / 48
  6
1996
18 / 48
  2
1998
3 / 48
  15
1999
13 / 48
  10
2004
13 / 48
 
2009
9 / 48
  4
2014
23 / 48
  14
2019
23 / 48
 
2024
9 / 48
  14

Vidhan Sabha elections

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Year Seats won Seats contested +/- Voteshare (%) +/- (%) Outcome
1980
14 / 288
145   14 9.38%   9.38% Opposition
1985
16 / 288
67   2 7.25%   2.13%
1990
42 / 288
104   26 10.71%   3.46%
1995
65 / 288
116   23 12.80%   2.09% Government
1999
56 / 288
117   9 14.54%   1.74% Opposition
2004
54 / 288
111   2 13.67%   0.87%
2009
46 / 288
119   8 14.02%   0.35%
2014
122 / 288
260   76 27.81%   13.79% Government
2019
105 / 288
150   17 25.75%   2.06%
2024
132 / 288
149   27 26.77%   1.02%

Leadership

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# Portrait Name Constituency Term of Office Assembly
1   Devendra Fadnavis Nagpur South West 31 October 2014 12 November 2019 5 years, 12 days 13th
23 November 2019 28 November 2019 5 days 14th
5 December 2024 Incumbent 16 days 15th
# Portrait Name Constituency Term of Office Chief Minister
1   Gopinath Munde Renapur 14 March 1995 18 October 1999 4 years, 218 days Manohar Joshi
Narayan Rane
2   Devendra Fadnavis Nagpur South West 30 June 2022 26 November 2024 2 years, 149 days Eknath Shinde
# Portrait Name Constituency Term of Office Chief Minister
1   Gopinath Munde Renapur 12 December 1991 14 March 1995 3 years, 92 days Sudhakarrao Naik
Sharad Pawar
2   Eknath Khadse Muktainagar 11 November 2009 31 October 2014 4 years, 354 days Ashok Chavan
Prithviraj Chavan
3   Devendra Fadnavis Nagpur South West 1 December 2019 29 June 2022 2 years, 210 days Uddhav Thackeray
# Portrait Name Constituency Term of Office Chief Minister
1 Anna Dange MLA's 2 July 1992 30 July 1993 1 year, 28 days Sudhakarrao Naik
Sharad Pawar
30 July 1994 14 March 1995 227 days
(1 year, 255 days)
Sharad Pawar
2   Nitin Gadkari Nagpur Graduates 23 October 1999 11 April 2005 5 years, 170 days Vilasrao Deshmukh
Sushilkumar Shinde
Vilasrao Deshmukh
3 Pandurang Fundkar MLA's 11 April 2005 22 December 2011 6 years, 255 days Vilasrao Deshmukh
Ashok Chavan
Prithviraj Chavan
4   Vinod Tawde MLA's 23 December 2011 20 October 2014 2 years, 301 days Prithviraj Chavan
5   Pravin Darekar MLA's 16 December 2019 29 June 2022 2 years, 195 days Uddhav Thackeray

Party Presidents

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# Portrait Name Term of Office
1   Uttamrao Patil 1980 1986 6 years
2   Gopinath Munde 1986 1991 5 years
3 N. S. Pharande 1991 1994 3 years
4 Suryabhan Vahadane-Patil 1994 2000 6 years
5[1] Pandurang Fundkar 2000 2005 5 years
6   Nitin Gadkari 2005 2009 4 years
7[2]   Sudhir Mungantiwar 03-Apr-2010 11-Apr-2013 3 years, 8 days
8[3]   Devendra Fadnavis 11-Apr-2013 06-Jan-2015 1 year, 270 days
9[4]   Raosaheb Danve 06-Jan-2015 16-Jul-2019 4 years, 191 days
10[5]   Chandrakant Patil 16-Jul-2019 12-Aug-2022 3 years, 27 days
11[6]   Chandrashekhar Bawankule 12-Aug-2022 present 2 years, 131 days

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "TROUBLED STATES". India Today.
  2. ^ "Sudhir Mungantiwar new Maharashtra BJP chief". The Hindu. 3 April 2010.
  3. ^ "Devendra Fadnavis new BJP Maharashtra president". The Economic Times. 11 April 2013.
  4. ^ "Union minister Danve named new Maharashtra BJP chief". The Indian Express. 6 January 2015.
  5. ^ "Chandrakant Patil appointed BJP's Maharashtra chief". The Pioneer. 16 July 2019.
  6. ^ "With polls in mind, BJP appoints Chandrashekhar Bawankule as new Maharashtra State President". The Hindu. 12 August 2022.