Bharatiya Janata Party – Jammu and Kashmir

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Bharatiya Janata Party – Jammu and Kashmir
भारतीय जनता पार्टी, जम्मू कश्मीर
Abbreviation BJP
President Sat Paul Sharma [1]
Founder
Founded6 April 1980
(45 years ago)
 (1980-04-06)
Split from Janata Party
Preceded by
HeadquartersDr. 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)
Seats in  Rajya Sabha
0 / 4
(as of 2024)
Seats in  Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly
29 / 90
(as of 2024)
Seats in  District Development Council
75 / 280
Election symbol
Lotus
Lotos flower symbol.svg
Party flag
BJP Flag.svg
Website
jkbjp.in

The Bharatiya Janata Party – Jammu and Kashmir, or simply, BJP Jammu and Kashmir (BJP; [bʱaːɾət̪iːjədʒənət̪aːpaːrtiː] ; 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. [3] The current president of BJP, Jammu and Kashmir is Sat Paul Sharma [1]

Contents

Electoral performance

Lok Sabha election

YearSeats won+/-Outcome
1984
0 / 6
newOpposition
1989
0 / 6
Steady2.svgOpposition
1991 Election not held because of insurgency until 1996Opposition
1996
1 / 6
Increase2.svg1Government, later Opposition
1998
2 / 6
Increase2.svg1Government
1999
2 / 6
Steady2.svg
2004
0 / 6
Decrease2.svg2Opposition
2009
0 / 6
Steady2.svg
2014
3 / 6
Increase2.svg3Government
2019
3 / 6
Steady2.svg
After Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir
2024
2 / 5
Steady2.svgGovernment

Rajya Sabha Members

NamePhotoDate of
appointment
Date of
retirement
Shamsheer Singh Manhas 11/2/201510/2/2021

Legislative Assembly Election

YearSeats won+/-Voteshare (%)+/- (%)Outcome
1983
0 / 76
New3.19%Newopposition
1987
2 / 76
Increase2.svg 25.10%Increase2.svg 1.91%
1996
8 / 87
Increase2.svg 612.13%Increase2.svg7.03%
2002
1 / 87
Decrease2.svg 78.57%Decrease2.svg 3.56%
2008
11 / 87
Increase2.svg 1012.45%Increase2.svg 3.88%
2014
25 / 87
Increase2.svg 1423.0%Increase2.svg 10.55%Coalition Government with PDP
After Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir
2024
29 / 90
Increase2.svg 425.64%Increase2.svg 2.64%opposition

District Development Council

75 / 278

Municipal corporation

Jammu Municipal Corporation

43 / 75

Srinagar Municipal Corporation

4 / 74

Leadership

Deputy Chief Ministers

NoPortraitName Constituency TermAssembly Chief minister
1 Dr Nirmal Singh BJP Jammu and Kashmir.jpg Nirmal Kumar Singh Billawar 4 April 201629 April 20182 years, 25 days 12th Mehbooba Mufti
2 Kavinder Gupta.png Kavinder Gupta Gandhinagar 30 April 201819 June 201850 days

List of opposition leaders

NoPortraitName Constituency TermAssembly Chief Minister
1 Sunil Kumar Sharma Padder–Nagseni 3 November 2024Incumbent334 days 13th Omar Abdullah

Elected members

Incumbent member(s) of Lok Sabha

S.No.ConstituencyPortraitName Win Margin in 2024
#Name
01.4 Udhampur Jitendra Singh assumed charge as the Minister of State for Prime Minister's Office.jpg Jitendra Singh 1,24,373
02.5 Jammu Jugal Kishore Sharma.jpg Jugal Kishore Sharma 1,35,498

Incumbent member(s) of Legislative Assembly

S.No.ConstituencyNameRemarks Win Margin in 2024
#Name
Kishtwar District
01.49 Kishtwar Shagun Parihar 521
02.50 Padder–Nagseni Sunil Kumar Sharma Leader of Opposition1,445
Doda District
03.51 Bhaderwah Daleep Singh Parihar 10,130
04.53 Doda West Shakti Raj Parihar 3,453
Reasi District
05.57 Reasi Kuldeep Raj Dubey 18,815
06.58 Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Baldev Raj Sharma 1,995
Udhampur District
07.59 Udhampur West Pawan Kumar Gupta Deputy Leader of Opposition20,752
08.60 Udhampur East Ranbir Singh Pathania 2,349
09.61 Chenani Balwant Singh Mankotia 15,611
10.62 Ramnagar Sunil Bhardwaj 9,306
Kathua District
11.64 Billawar Satish Kumar Sharma 21,368
12.65 Basohli Darshan Kumar 16,034
13.66 Jasrota Rajiv Jasrotia 12,420
14.67 Kathua Bharat Bhushan 12,117
15.68 Hiranagar Vijay Kumar 8,610
Samba District
16.69 Ramgarh Devinder Kumar Manyal 14,202
17.70 Samba Surjeet Singh Slathia Deputy Leader of Opposition30,309
18.71 Vijaypur Chander Prakash Ganga 19,040
Jammu District
19.72 Bishnah Rajeev Kumar Bhagat 15,627
20.73 Suchetgarh Gharu Ram Bhagat 11,141
21.74 R. S. Pura–Jammu South Narinder Singh Raina 1,966
22.75 Bahu Vikram Randhawa 11,251
23.76 Jammu East Yudhvir Sethi 18,114
24.78 Jammu West Arvind Gupta 22,127
25.79 Jammu North Sham Lal Sharma 27,363
26.80 Marh Surinder Kumar Bhagat 23,086
27.81 Akhnoor Mohan Lal Bhagat 25,248
Rajouri District
28.83 Kalakote–Sunderbani Thakur Randhir Singh 14,409

List of State Presidents

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Sat Sharma appointed as Jammu and Kashmir BJP president". The Hindu. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
  2. "What you need to know about India's BJP". AlJazeera. 23 May 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  3. 1 2 "BJP J&K unit address".
  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. 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.
  7. "Members". idu.org. International Democrat Union. February 2018. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
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  9. https://jkbjp.in/leadership/state-presidents/