Bharatiya Janata Party – Tripura

Bharatiya Janata Party – Tripura ভারতীয় জনতা পার্টি – ত্রিপুরা (Bengali) Bharatiya Janata Parti – Twipra (Kokborok)
Abbreviation	BJP
Leader	Manik Saha ( Chief Minister of Tripura )
President	Rajib Bhattacharjee [1]
Founder	Atal Bihari Vajpayee Lal Krishna Advani [2]
Founded	6 April 1980 (45 years ago) (1980-04-06)
Split from	Janata Party
Preceded by	Bharatiya Jana Sangh (1951–1977) Janata Party (1977–1980)
Headquarters	12-A, Krishnanagar Main Road,(In between Advisor & Bijoy Kumar Chowmuhani), Po.Agartala(Main), Dist.West Tripura-799 001, Tripura, India [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	Integral humanism Social conservatism Economic nationalism Hindu nationalism Cultural nationalism Faction Tripuri Rights [6] Pro-NRC [7]
Colours	Saffron
Alliance	National level National Democratic Alliance NorthEast Region North East Democratic Alliance
Seats in  Lok Sabha	2 / 2 (as of 2024)
Seats in  Rajya Sabha	1 / 1 (as of 2024)
Seats in  Tripura Legislative Assembly	33 / 60 (as of 2023)
Seats in  Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council	9 / 30 (as of 2022)
Election symbol
Lotus
Party flag
Website
www.bjp.org/tripura
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Bharatiya Janata Party – Tripura (BJP Tripura) is the Tripura affiliate of the Bharatiya Janata Party in India. It is currently chaired by Rajib Bhattacharjee. It is currently the state's ruling party, with its headquarters at 12-A, Krishnanagar Main Road, (between Advisor and Bijoy Kumar Chowmuhani), Po.Agartala(Main), Dist.West Tripura-799 001.

Electoral performance

Lok Sabha Election

Year	Seats won	+/-	Outcome
2019	2 / 2	2	Government
2024	2 / 2

Legislative Assembly Election

Year	Seats won	+/-	Voteshare (%)	+/- (%)	Outcome
1983	0 / 60	New	0.06%	New	None
1988	0 / 60		0.15%	0.09%
1993	0 / 60		2.02%	1.87%
1998	0 / 60		5.87%	3.85%
2003	0 / 60		1.32%	4.55%
2008	0 / 60		1.49%	0.17%
2013	0 / 60		1.54%	0.05%
2018	36 / 60	36	43.59%	41.5%	Government
2023	32 / 60	4	38.97%	4.62%

In Local Elections

Municipal corporation election results

Year	Municipal Corporation	Seats contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
Tripura
2015	Agartala	51	0 / 51
2021	Agartala	51	51 / 51	51 [8]	57.39%

Autonomous District Council election

Year	Autonomous District Council	Seats contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Percentage of votes	Vote swing	Government
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1982	From 1982 election has been held at Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council but BJP to win any seats was on 2021 election.[ clarification needed ]
2021	TTAADC	26	9 / 30	9			Government

2015 Tripura local elections

In 2015 local election BJP won 2 seats of 310 at various municipal council and one municipal corporation. ^[9]

2021 Tripura local elections

In 2021 local election BJP won 329 seats of 334 at various municipal council and one municipal corporation, with vote percentage of 59.01%. ^[10]

Leadership

Chief ministers

No.	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Term of office [11]			Assembly
1		Biplab Kumar Deb	Banamalipur	9 March 2018	15 May 2022	4 years, 67 days	12th
2		Manik Saha	Town Bordowali	15 May 2022	12 March 2023	301 days
				13 March 2023	Incumbent	3 years, 138 days	13th

Deputy chief ministers

No	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Term of Office			Assembly	Chief Minister	Ref.
1		Jishnu Dev Varma	Charilam	9 March 2018	2 March 2023	4 years, 358 days	12th	Biplab Kumar Deb Manik Saha	[12]

Lok Sabha Members

No	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Win Margin in 2024
1		Biplab Kumar Deb	Tripura West	6,11,578
2		Kriti Devi Debbarman	Tripura East	4,86,819

Rajya Sabha Members

No	Name	Constituency	From	To
1	Rajib Bhattacharjee	Tripura	03/09/2024	02/04/2028

Former State President List

• Sudheendradas Gupta : 1980 - 2016
• Biplab Kumar Deb : 2016 - 2018
• Manik Saha : 2018 - 2022

See also

• Biplab Kumar Deb
• Manik Saha
• Bharatiya Janata Party
• National Democratic Alliance
• North East Democratic Alliance
• Indigenous People's Front of Tripura
• Communist Party of India (Marxist), Tripura

References

1. "New President of BJP Tripura state unit". Economic Times.
2. "What you need to know about India's BJP". AlJazeera. 23 May 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
3. "Tripura State Office". www.bjp.org.
4. Pragya Singh (15 January 2008). "Need to Know BJP-led BMS is biggest labour union in India". live mint. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
5. 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.
6. "Only BJP has worked for Indigenous people of Tripura". Indian Express.
7. "BJP Tripura and its ally IPFT seeks NRC for whole nation". Economic Times.
8. "2021 Tripura municipal election result". Hindustan Times.
9. "2015 Tripura local election result". The Hindu.
10. "2021 Tripura local election result". Hindustan Times.
11. Former Chief Ministers of Tripura. Government of Tripura. Retrieved on 21 August 2013.
12. Deb, Priyanka (6 March 2018). "BJP picks Biplab Deb as new Tripura CM, Jishnu Debbarma to be his deputy". Hindustan Times.