List of state presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party

This is a list of state presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party. As per the BJP's internal constitution, national president of the party appoints state presidents. ^{[1] [2]}

State-wise party presidents

State unit	Name	Portrait	Took office	Appointed by	Ref.
Andhra Pradesh	P. V. N. Madhav		1 July 2025 (127 days)	J. P. Nadda	[3]
Arunachal Pradesh	Kaling Moyong		18 January 2025 (291 days)		[4]
Assam	Dilip Saikia		17 January 2025 (292 days)		[5]
Bihar	Dilip Jaiswal		4 March 2025 (246 days)		[6]
Chhattisgarh	Kiran Singh Deo		21 December 2023 (1 year, 319 days)		[7]
Goa	Damodar Naik		18 January 2025 (291 days)		[8]
Gujarat	Jagdish Vishwakarma		4 October 2025 (32 days)		[9]
Haryana	Mohan Lal Badoli		9 July 2024 (1 year, 119 days)		[10]
Himachal Pradesh	Rajeev Bindal		23 April 2023 (2 years, 196 days)		[11]
Jharkhand	Babulal Marandi Aditya Sahu (working)		4 July 2023 (2 years, 124 days) 3 October 2025 (33 days)		[12]
Karnataka	B. Y. Vijayendra		10 November 2023 (1 year, 360 days)		[13] [14]
Kerala	Rajeev Chandrasekhar		24 March 2025 (226 days)		[15]
Madhya Pradesh	Hemant Khandelwal		2 July 2025 (126 days)		[16]
Maharashtra	Ravindra Chavan		2 July 2025 (126 days)		[17]
Manipur	Adhikarimayum Sharda Devi		26 June 2021 (4 years, 132 days)		[18]
Meghalaya	Rikman Momin		25 September 2023 (2 years, 41 days)		[19]
Mizoram	K. Beichhua		30 June 2025 (128 days)		[20]
Nagaland	Benjamin Yepthomi		25 September 2023 (2 years, 41 days)		[19] [21]
Odisha	Manmohan Samal		23 March 2023 (2 years, 227 days)		[22]
Punjab	Sunil Jakhar		4 July 2023 (2 years, 124 days)		[23]
Rajasthan	Madan Rathore		26 July 2024 (1 year, 102 days)		[6]
Sikkim	Dilli Ram Thapa		4 February 2023 (2 years, 274 days)		[24]
Tamil Nadu	Nainar Nagendran		13 April 2025 (206 days)
Telangana	N. Ramchander Rao		1 July 2025 (127 days)		[25]
Tripura	Rajib Bhattacharjee		25 August 2022 (3 years, 72 days)		[26]
Uttar Pradesh	Bhupendra Chaudhary		25 August 2022 (3 years, 72 days)		[27]
Uttarakhand	Mahendra Bhatt		30 July 2022 (3 years, 98 days)		[28]
West Bengal	Samik Bhattacharya		3 July 2025 (125 days)		[29]

Union territory-wise party presidents

Territorial unit	Portrait	Name	Took office	Appointed by	Ref.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands		Anil Tiwari	1 July 2025 (127 days)	J. P. Nadda	[30]
Chandigarh		Jatinder Pal Malhotra	13 October 2023 (2 years, 23 days)
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu		Mahesh Agaria	6 July 2025 (122 days)
Delhi		Virendra Sachdeva	24 March 2023 (2 years, 226 days)		[31]
Jammu and Kashmir		Sat Paul Sharma	3 November 2024 (1 year, 2 days)		[32]
Ladakh		Tashi Gyalson Khachu	3 July 2025 (125 days)
Lakshadweep		K. N. Kasmikoya	9 January 2022 (3 years, 300 days)		[33]
Puducherry		V. P. Ramalingam	30 June 2025 (128 days)		[34]

See also

• List of national presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party
• List of state presidents of the Indian National Congress
• List of chief ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party
• List of Rajya Sabha members from the Bharatiya Janata Party

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