Bharatiya Janata Party, Bihar

Bharatiya Janata Party, Bihar भारतीय जनता पार्टी, बिहार
President	Dilip Kumar Jaiswal
General Secretary	Bhikhubhai Dalsaniya
Headquarters	8, Veerchand Patel Path, Patna, Bihar
Colours	Saffron
Alliance	National Democratic Alliance
Seats in  Lok Sabha	12 / 40
Seats in  Rajya Sabha	4 / 16
Seats in  Bihar Legislative Assembly	84 / 243
Seats in  Bihar Legislative Council	24 / 75
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Bharatiya Janata Party, Bihar is a state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar. Dilip Kumar Jaiswal the current president of the BJP Bihar. ^{[1] [2]}

Electoral history

Legislative Assembly election

Year	Seats won	Seats contested	+/-	Voteshare (%)	+/- (%)	Outcome
Bharatiya Janata Party
1980	21 / 324	246	21	8.41%	8.41%	Opposition
1985	16 / 324	234	5	7.54%	0.87%	Opposition
1990	39 / 324	237	23	11.61%	4.07%	Outside support to Janata Dal
1995	41 / 324	315	2	12.96%	1.35%	Opposition
2000	67 / 324	168	26	14.64%	1.68%	Opposition
2005	37 / 243	103	30	10.97%	3.67%
2005	55 / 243	102	18	15.65%	4.68%	Government
2010	91 / 243	102	36	16.49%	0.84%	Government, later Opposition
2015	53 / 243	157	38	24.42%	7.93%	Opposition, later Government
2020	74 / 243	110	21	19.46%	4.96%	Government, later Opposition

Lok Sabha election

Year	Seats won	+/-	Outcome
Bharatiya Janata Party
1980	0 / 54		Opposition
1984	0 / 54		Opposition
1989	8 / 54	8	Outside support to National Front
1991	5 / 54	3	Opposition
1996	18 / 54	13	Government, later Opposition
1998	19 / 54	1	Government
1999	23 / 54	4	Government
2004	5 / 40	18	Opposition
2009	12 / 40	7	Opposition
2014	22 / 40	15	Government
2019	17 / 40	5	Government
2024	12 / 40	5	Government

Leadership

Deputy Chief Minister

#	Portrait	Name	Term of Office		Tenure	Assembly
1		Sushil Kumar Modi	24 November 2005	16 June 2013	10 years, 316 days	14th
						15th
			27 July 2017	16 November 2020		16th
2		Tarkishore Prasad	16 November 2020	9 August 2022	1 year, 266 days	17th
		Renu Devi
3		Samrat Choudhary	28 January 2024	Incumbent	1 year, 35 days
		Vijay Kumar Sinha

Leader of the Opposition Legislative Assembly

#	Portrait	Name	Term of Office			Assembly	Chief Minister
1		Yashwant Sinha	17 April 1995	24 January 1996	282 days	11th	Lalu Prasad Yadav
2		Sushil Kumar Modi	19 March 1996	1 March 2000	8 years, 9 days		Rabri Devi
			15 March 2000	28 March 2004		12th
3		Nand Kishore Yadav	19 June 2013	4 December 2015	2 years, 168 days	15th	Nitish Kumar
4		Prem Kumar	4 December 2015	28 July 2017	1 year, 236 days	16th
5		Vijay Kumar Sinha	24 August 2022	28 January 2024	1 year, 157 days	17th

Leader of the Opposition Legislative Council

#	Portrait	Name	Term of Office			Chief Minister
1		Sushil Kumar Modi	19 June 2013	27 July 2017	4 years, 38 days	Nitish Kumar
2		Samrat Chaudhary	24 August 2022	20 August 2023	361 days
3		Hari Sahni	20 August 2023	28 January 2024	161 days

President

#	Portrait	Party leader [3]	Tenure
1		Kailashpati Mishra	1980	1981	1 year
2		Jagadambi Prasad Yadav	1981	1984	3 years
(1)		Kailashpati Mishra	1984	1987	3 years
3		Inder Singh Namdhari	1988	1990	3 years
4		Tarakant Jha	1990	1993	3 years
5		Ashwani Kumar	1994	1996	2 years
6		Yashwant Sinha	1997	1998	1 year
7		Nand Kishore Yadav	1998	2003	5 years
8 [4]		Gopal Narayan Singh	16-Oct-2003	31-May-2005	1 year, 227 days
9 [5]		Sushil Kumar Modi	31 May 2005	2006	1 year
10		Radha Mohan Singh	2006	24-Apr-2010	4 years
11 [6]		C. P. Thakur	24-Apr-2010	18-Jan-2013	2 years, 269 days
12 [7]		Mangal Pandey	18-Jan-2013	30-Nov-2016	3 years, 317 days
13 [8]		Nityanand Rai	30-Nov-2016	14-Sep-2019	2 years, 288 days
14 [9]		Sanjay Jaiswal	14-Sep-2019	23-Mar-2023	3 years, 190 days
15		Samrat Choudhary	24-Mar-2023	25-Jul-2024	1 year, 123 days
16		Dilip Kumar Jaiswal	26-Jul-2024	Present	221 days

See also

• Bharatiya Janata Party
• National Democratic Alliance
• Janata Dal (United)
• Bharatiya Janata Party, Gujarat
• Bharatiya Janata Party, Uttar Pradesh
• Bharatiya Janata Party, Madhya Pradesh
• State units of the Bharatiya Janata Party

References

1. "BJP appoints Sanjay Jaiswal as Bihar chief, Satish Punia to look after Rajasthan". Hindustan Times. 14 September 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
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3. "सीढ़ी दर सीढ़ी सफलता के शिखर चढ़े डॉ. संजय जायसवाल". Hindustan (in Hindi).
4. "Gopal Narain Singh new Bihar BJP President". zeenews.india.com. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
5. Jha, Sachchidan (31 May 2005). "Sushil Modi is new chief of Bihar BJP". The Times of India. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
6. "C P Thakur new Bihar BJP president". The Indian Express. 24 April 2010. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
7. Ahmad, Faizan (18 January 2013). "Mangal Pandey: Mangal Pandey set to be new state BJP chief". The Times of India. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
8. "Manoj Tiwari, Nityanand Rai appointed BJP's Delhi and Bihar unit presidents". Deccan Herald. 30 November 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
9. Kumar, Madan (14 September 2019). "Sanjay Jaiswal: Three-time Lok Sabha member Sanjay Jaiswal appointed Bihar BJP president". The Times of India. Retrieved 21 January 2022.