Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal

Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal
Abbreviation	BJP
Leader	Suvendu Adhikari (Leader of Opposition)
President	Dr. Sukanta Majumdar
General Secretary	Amitava Chakroborty
Spokesperson	Samik Bhattacharya
Yuva Morcha president	Indranil Khan
Headquarters	6, Muralidhar Sen Lane, College Square, Kolkata-700073, West Bengal
Newspaper	Kamal Barta
Student wing	ABVP
Youth wing	Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, West Bengal
Women's wing	BJP Mahila Morcha, West Bengal
Ideology	Conservatism [1] Neoliberalism [2] Right-wing populism [3] Nationalism [4] Hindutva [5] Integral humanism [6]
Political position	Right-wing to far-right [7]
Religion	Hinduism [8]
Colours	Saffron
Slogan	Sabka Sath Sabka Bikash Sabka Biswas Sabka Prayas
Alliance	National Democratic Alliance
Advocate	Koustav Bagchi
Seats in West Bengal Legislative Assembly	66 / 294
Seats in Gorkhaland Territorial Administration	0 / 50
Seats in Lok Sabha	12 / 42
Seats in Rajya Sabha	2 / 16
Election symbol
Party flag
Website
bjpbengal.org
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Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal is the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Indian state of West Bengal. The party's headquarters is located in Kolkata, the capital of the state. Sukanta Majumdar is the president of BJP, West Bengal.

The party holds 2 seat in the Rajya Sabha and 12 seats in the Lok Sabha from the state. Furthermore, the party has 66 seats in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.

History

Predecessors and formation

The origins of the BJP lies in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Syama Prasad Mukherjee, the founder of the BJS, was born in Calcutta (Now Kolkata), while K. B. Hedgewar, the founder of the RSS also studied in the city. In the 1960s, plenty of RSS offices opened across the state. They mostly worked with Marwari traders as well as migrants from eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, in Kolkata’s Burrabazar. By late 1960s, local meetings were conducted in Bengali as well. ^[9]

Electoral performance

Vote share in consecutive assembly elections
2021			38.14%
2016			10.16%
2011			6.52%
2006			1.93%
2001			5.19%
1996			6.45%
1991			11.34%
1987			0.51%
1982			0.58%

Vote share in consecutive Lok Sabha elections
2024			38.73%
2019			40.25%
2014			17.02%
2009			6.14%
2004			8.06%
1999			11.13%
1998			10.2%
1996			6.88%
1991			11.66%
1989			1.67%
1984			0.4%

1980s

The BJP started its operation within the state from the grassroots level of governance, particularly the panchayat politics. The party also used various cultural icons in the state, including Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and Swami Vivekananda in its election campaigns. ^[10]

The Bharatiya Janata Party contested the West Bengal assembly election for the first time in 1982. ^[11] The primary objective of the party was to create a nucleus for a future third force in West Bengal politics. ^[11] The party supported the call of the West Bengal government to hold the elections in March 1982. ^[12] The party contested on 52 assembly constituencies and got around 129,994 votes in the state.

In 1984 Lok Sabha election, BJP contested on 9 seats and got 101165 (0.4%) votes in West Bengal. ^[13]

In the 1987 the party contested on 57 constituencies and slightly increased its votes to 134,867. ^[14]

In 1989 Lok Sabha election, BJP contested on 19 seats and got 529618 (1.67%) votes in West Bengal. ^[15]

1990s

The Bharatiya Janata Party fielded 291 candidates across the state in 1991 Vidhan Sabha election, and managed to increase its share of votes from 0.51% in 1987 to 11.34% (3,513,121 votes). ^{[16] [11]} This was the first time BJP fielded such a large number of candidates in West Bengal assembly elections. ^[11] The party also fielded 42 candidates for the 1991 Lok Sabha election which took place simultaneously with the Vidhan Sabha election. The BJP got 3624974 (11.66%) votes in this election. Rather than focusing primarily on the Ayodhya issue, which was highlighted in the BJP campaigns across the country, the West Bengal BJP campaign concentrated on agitations against immigration from Bangladesh. ^[17] The campaign sought to invoke Bengali memories of Partition. ^[17] While support for BJP increased among Bengali communities, its main stronghold in the state remained non-Bengali populations in Calcutta (Marwaris and Gujaratis). ^[17] Besides this, the party was able to mobilize the rural voters who were not benefitted from Left government’s land reforms. ^[10]

In 1996, both Assembly election and Lok Sabha election took place simultaneously, the party contested on 292 assembly constituencies and got 2,372,480 (6.45%) votes ^[18] and contested 42 Lok Sabha seats and got 2525864 (6.88%) votes across the state. ^[19]

In 1998, the BJP contested on 14 seats and won 1 Lok Sabha seat for the first time in West Bengal from Dum Dum. It got 3724662 (10.2%) votes. ^[20] Tapan Sikdar, who was serving as the West Bengal State President of BJP, won the Dum Dum constituency with 631,383 (50.7%) votes defeating nearest rival Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee of the CPI (M). ^[21]

In 1999, the BJP in an alliance with All India Trinamool Congress contested 13 seats and won 2 Lok Sabha seats and got 3,928,424 votes (11.13). ^[22] The two elected Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha were Satyabrata Mookherjee from Krishnanagar with 43.82% votes and Tapan Sikdar from Dum Dum with 51.59% votes. ^[23]

2000s

In 2001 Assembly election, BJP contested on 266 constituencies and got 1901351 (5.19%) votes throughout the state and 5.68% in seats contested. ^[24]

In the 2004 Indian general election, the National Democratic Alliance was completely decimated by CPI (M) led Left Front and INC led United Progressive Alliance. The BJP didn't win a single seat and its ally All India Trinamool Congress was reduced to just 1 Lok Sabha seat. ^[25] The BJP however managed to get 2983950 (8.06%) votes. ^[26]

In the 2006 Assembly election, BJP entered into an alliance with the All India Trinamool Congress and contested on 29 constituencies. The BJP got 760236 (1.93%) votes throughout West Bengal and 19.89% on seats it contested. ^[27]

In 2009 Indian general election, BJP candidate Jaswant Singh, with support from Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, won the Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat getting a total of 4,97,649 (51.50%) votes. Across the state BJP got only 6.14% votes. ^[28]

2010s

In 2011 Legislative Assembly election the BJP allied with GJM. ^[29]

In 2014 Indian general election the BJP won only 2 seats. BJP candidates for the first time, returned runner-up in 3 seats and got 17.2% vote share throughout the state. This performance was better than BJP's previous best of 11.66% in 1991 elections. However the All India Trinamool Congress dominated the election winning 34 seats. ^[30]

In 2016 Assembly election the BJP in an alliance with GJM contested 291 seats and got 5,555,134 (10.16%) votes and created history by winning 3 assembly seats for the first time. ^[31]

There was a major political shift from the left to the right in the 2019 Lok Sabha election in West Bengal. The Bharatiya Janata Party, won 18 Lok Sabha seats out of the 42 constituencies with 23,028,343 (40.25%) votes. On 24 May 2019, The Statesman reported that BJP had made CPI-M a marginalised party and setting a strong challenge to the ruling Trinamool Congress. ^[32] The shift in the voting pattern was seen across the state. ^[33]

After the election the Government of India passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) in the Parliament, allowing a quicker route to citizenship to non Muslim immigrants from neighbouring countries. The party hoped to benefit from the votes of the Hindu immigrants from Bangladesh. ^{[34] [35]}

Post 2020

The BJP's Bengali booklet released in January 2020 claimed that the National Register of Citizens will be implemented to identify any undocumented migrants including Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims and non-Muslims by the Citizenship Amendment Act. ^{[36] [37]}

Electoral performance

Legislative Assembly election

Year	Seats won	Change in seats	Percentage of votes	Vote swing	Outcome
1982	0 / 294	–	0.58%	–	None
1987	0 / 294	–	0.51%	0.07%	None
1991	0 / 294	–	11.34%	10.83%	None
1996	0 / 294	–	6.45%	4.89%	None
2001	0 / 294	–	5.19%	1.26%	None
2006	0 / 294	–	1.93%	3.26%	None
2011	0 / 294	–	4.06%	2.13%	None
2016	3 / 294	3	10.16%	6.1%	Opposition
2021	77 / 294	74	38.14%	27.98%	Opposition

Lok Sabha election

Year	Seats won	Change in seats
1998	1 / 42
1999	2 / 42	1
2004	0 / 42	2
2009	1 / 42	1
2014	2 / 42	1
2019	18 / 42	16
2024	12 / 42	6

Leadership

The West Bengal BJP has one president, twelve vice-presidents and five general secretaries & twelve secretaries. ^[38] As of September 2021, the President of the West Bengal state branch of the party is Dr. Sukanta Majumder.

Dilip Ghosh is most successful president.During his leadership party gain 18 MP in 2019 lok sabha election. And in 2021 Vidhan sabha election party gain 77 MLA.

List of opposition leaders

No	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Term			Assembly	Chief Minister
1		Suvendu Adhikari	Nandigram	10 May 2021	Incumbent	3 years, 258 days	17th	Mamata Banerjee

List of State Presidents

This article is about the chronological List of State Presidents of Bharatiya Janata Party for West Bengal. For List of All India Presidents, see List of presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

No.	Name	Term in office
1	Prof. Haripada Bharati	1980–1982
2	Dr. Vishnukant Shastri	1982–1986
3	Sukumar Banerjee	1986–1991
4	Tapan Sikdar	1991–1995
(2)	Dr. Vishnukant Shastri	1995–1997
(4)	Tapan Sikdar	1997–1999
5	Asim Ghosh	1999–2002
6	Tathagata Roy	2002–2006
(3)	Sukumar Banerjee	2006–2008
7	Satyabrata Mookherjee	2008–2009
8	Rahul Sinha	2009–2015
9	Dilip Ghosh	2015–2021
10	Dr. Sukanta Majumder	2021–Incumbent

Elected members

Incumbent member(s) of Lok Sabha

S.No.	Constituency		Name	Win Margin in 2024
	#	Name
01.	2	Alipurduars	Manoj Tigga	75,447
02.	3	Jalpaiguri	Jayanta Kumar Roy	86,693
03.	4	Darjeeling	Raju Bista	1,78,525
04.	5	Raiganj	Kartick Chandra Paul	68,197
05.	6	Balurghat	Sukanta Majumdar	10,386
06.	7	Maldaha Uttar	Khagen Murmu	77,708
07.	13	Ranaghat	Jagannath Sarkar	1,86,899
08.	14	Bangaon	Shantanu Thakur	73,693
09.	30	Tamluk	Abhijit Gangopadhyay	77,733
10.	31	Kanthi	Soumendu Adhikari	47,764
11.	35	Purulia	Jyotirmay Singh Mahato	17,079
12.	37	Bishnupur	Saumitra Khan	5,567

Incumbent member(s) of Legislative Assembly

S.No.	Constituency		Name	Remarks	Win Margin in 2021
	#	Name
Cooch Behar District
01.	2	Mathabhanga	Sushil Barman		26,134
02.	3	Cooch Behar Uttar	Sukumar Roy		14,615
03.	4	Cooch Behar Dakshin	Nikhil Ranjan Dey		4,799
04.	5	Sitalkuchi	Baren Chandra Barman		17,815
05.	8	Natabari	Mihir Goswami	Deputy Leader of Opposition	23,440
06.	9	Tufanganj	Malati Rava Roy		31,198
Alipurduar District
07.	10	Kumargram	Manoj Kumar Oraon		11,001
08.	11	Kalchini	Bishal Lama		28,576
09.	13	Falakata	Dipak Barman		3,990
Jalpaiguri District
10.	16	Maynaguri	Kaushik Roy		11,911
11.	19	Dabgram-Phulbari	Sikha Chatterjee		27,593
12.	21	Nagrakata	Puna Bhengra		14,402
Darjeeling District
13.	23	Darjeeling	Neeraj Zimba		21,726
14.	24	Kurseong	Bishnu Prasad Sharma		15,515
15.	25	Matigara-Naxalbari	Anandamoy Barman		70,848
16.	26	Siliguri	Shankar Ghosh	Chief Whip	35,586
17.	27	Phansidewa	Durga Murmu		27,711
Uttar Dinajpur District
18.	34	Kaliaganj	Soumen Roy		21,820
Dakshin Dinajpur District
19.	39	Balurghat	Ashok Lahiri		12,899
20.	40	Tapan	Budhrai Tudu		1,650
21.	41	Gangarampur	Satyendra Nath Ray		4,592
Malda District
22.	43	Habibpur	Joyel Murmu		19,517
23.	44	Gazole	Chinmoy Deb Barman		1,798
24.	50	Maldaha	Gopal Chandra Saha		15,456
25.	51	English Bazar	Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury		20,099
Murshidabad District
26.	64	Murshidabad	Gouri Shankar Ghosh		2,491
27.	72	Baharampur	Subrata Maitra		26,852
Nadia District
28.	87	Ranaghat Uttar Paschim	Parthasarathi Chatterjee		23,128
29.	88	Krishnaganj	Ashis Kumar Biswas		21,277
30.	89	Ranaghat Uttar Purba	Ashim Biswas		31,782
31.	91	Chakdaha	Bankim Chandra Ghosh		11,680
32.	92	Kalyani	Ambika Roy		2,206
33.	93	Haringhata	Ashim Kumar Sarkar		15,200
North 24 Parganas District
34.	95	Bangaon Uttar	Ashok Kirtania		10,488
35.	96	Bangaon Dakshin	Swapan Majumder		2,004
36.	97	Gaighata	Subrata Thakur		9,578
37.	105	Bhatpara	Pawan Kumar Singh		13,687
Hooghly District
38.	199	Pursurah	Biman Ghosh		28,178
39.	200	Arambagh	Madhusudan Bag		7,172
40.	201	Goghat	Biswanath Karak		4,147
41.	202	Khanakul	Susanta Ghosh		12,884
Purba Medinipur District
42.	206	Moyna	Ashok Dinda		1,260
43.	209	Haldia	Tapasi Mondal		15,008
44.	210	Nandigram	Suvendu Adhikari	Leader of Opposition	1,956
45.	213	Kanthi Uttar	Sumita Sinha		9,330
46.	214	Bhagabanpur	Rabindranath Maity		27,549
47.	215	Khejuri	Santanu Pramanik		17,965
48.	216	Kanthi Dakshin	Arup Kumar Das		10,293
Paschim Medinipur District
49.	224	Kharagpur Sadar	Hiran Chatterjee		3,771
50.	231	Ghatal	Sital Kapat		966
Purulia District
51.	239	Balarampur	Baneswar Mahato		273
52.	241	Joypur	Narahari Mahato		12,102
53.	242	Purulia	Sudip Kumar Mukherjee		6,585
54.	244	Kashipur	Kamalakanta Hansda		7,240
55.	245	Para	Nadiar Chand Bouri		3,944
56.	246	Raghunathpur	Vivekananda Bauri		5,323
Bankura District
57.	247	Saltora	Chandana Bauri		4,145
58.	248	Chhatna	Satyanarayan Mukhopadhyay		7,164
59.	252	Bankura	Niladri Sekhar Dana		1,468
60.	254	Onda	Amarnath Shakha		11,551
61.	257	Indas	Nirmal Kumar Dhara		7,220
62.	258	Sonamukhi	Dibakar Gharami		5,323
Paschim Bardhaman District
63.	277	Durgapur Paschim	Lakshman Chandra Ghorui		14,664
64.	280	Asansol Dakshin	Agnimitra Paul		4,487
65.	282	Kulti	Ajay Kumar Poddar		679
Birbhum District
66.	284	Dubrajpur	Anup Kumar Saha		3,863

See also

• Bharatiya Janata Party, Kerala
• Bharatiya Janata Party, Gujarat
• Bharatiya Janata Party, Uttar Pradesh
• Bharatiya Janata Party, Madhya Pradesh
• Bharatiya Janata Party, Bihar
• Bharatiya Janata Party, Chhattisgarh
• Bharatiya Janata Party, Odisha
• State units of the Bharatiya Janata Party
• Communist Party of India (Marxist), West Bengal
• West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee

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External links

• Official website
• Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal on Twitter
• Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal on Facebook