Bharatiya Janata Party, Assam

Bharatiya Janata Party, Assam

ভাৰতীয় জনতা পাৰ্টি, অসম
Bharatiya Janata Party, Assam ভাৰতীয় জনতা পাৰ্টি, অসম
Abbreviation	BJP
Leader	Himanta Biswa Sarma; (Chief Minister of Assam)
President	Bhabesh Kalita
General Secretary	Panindranath Sarma
Founder	Atal Bihari Vajpayee; Lal Krishna Advani;
Founded	6 April 1980; (44 years ago)
Split from	Janata Party
Preceded by	Bharatiya Jana Sangh (1951–1977); Janata Party (1977–1980);
Headquarters	'Atal Bihari Vajpayee Bhawan' Near Hengrabari L.P. School Hengrabari, Guwahati - 781 036 Assam, India
Newspaper	Kamal Sandesh
Youth wing	Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha
Women's wing	BJP Mahila Morcha
Labour wing	Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh
Peasant's wing	Bharatiya Kisan Sangh
Ideology	Integral humanism; Social conservatism; Economic nationalism; Hindu nationalism; Cultural nationalism; Big Tent; Majority:; Secularism; Faction:; Ethnocentrism;
Colours	Saffron
Alliance	National Democratic Alliance; North East Democratic Alliance
Seats in Lok Sabha	9 / 14 (as of 2022)
Seats in Rajya Sabha	4 / 7 (as of 2022)
Seats in Assam Legislative Assembly	63 / 126 (as of 2022)
Election symbol
	Lotus;
Party flag
Website
	assam.bjp.org
	Politics of India; Political parties; Elections;

The Bharatiya Janata Party, or simply, BJP Assam (BJP; [bʱaːɾət̪iːjə dʒənət̪aː paːrtiː] ^ⓘ; lit. 'Indian People's Party'), is the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party of the Assam. Its head office is situated at the 'Atal Bihari Vajpayee Bhawan' Near Hengrabari L.P. School Hengrabari, Guwahati-781 036, Assam, India. The current president of BJP Assam is Bhabesh Kalita.

In 2016 BJP formed Government at Assam state for the first time under leadership of Sarbananda Sonowal from there it is still a ruling party at Assam and had 2 Chief Ministers till date Sarbananda Sonowal from 2016 to 2021 and Himanta Biswa Sarma from 2021–present.

Electoral performance[edit]

Lok Sabha Election[edit]

Year	Seats won	+/-	Outcome
1991	2 / 14	–	Opposition
1996	1 / 14	1	Government, later Opposition
1998	1 / 14	–	Government
1999	2 / 14	1	Government
2004	2 / 14	–	Opposition
2009	5 / 14	3	Opposition
2014	7 / 14	2	Government
2019	9 / 14	2	Government
2024

Legislative Assembly Election[edit]

Year	Seats won	+/-	Voteshare (%)	+/- (%)	Outcome
1991	10 / 126	New	6.55%	New	Opposition
1996	4 / 126	6	10.41%	3.86%
2001	8 / 126	4	9.35%	1.06%
2006	10 / 126	2	11.98%	2.63%
2011	5 / 126	5	11.47%	0.51%
2016	60 / 126	55	29.5%	18.03%	Government
2021	60 / 126		33.21%	3.70%	Government

In local elections[edit]

Municipal corporation election results[edit]

Year	Municipal Corporation	Seats contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Percentage of votes
Assam
2013	Guwahati	60	11 / 60	11
2022	Guwahati	60	52 / 60	41^[10]	59.31%

Autonomous District Council election[edit]

Year	Autonomous District Council	Seats contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Government
Bodoland
2015	Bodoland	40	1 / 40	1	Allied government with BPF
2020	Bodoland	26	9 / 40	8	Allied government with UPPL
Haflong
2019	North Cachar Hills	28	19 / 28		Government.
2024	Dima Hasao	28	25 / 28	6^[11]	Government.
Diphu
2017	Karbi Anglong	26	24 / 26		Government.
2022	Karbi Anglong	26	26 / 26	2	Government.
Morigaon
2020	Tiwa		33 / 36		Government with AGP.
Dhemaji
2019	Mising		5 / 34		Government with Sammilita Gana Shakti.
Dudhnoi
2019	Rabha Hasong		34 / 36		BJP+RHJMC Government.
Dibrugarh
2019	Sonowal Kachari		20 / 26		Government.
Titabar
2022	Thengal Kachari		14 / 22		Government with AGP.
Narayanpur
2022	Deori		11 / 22		Government with AGP.

Leadership[edit]

State Presidents(1980 till date)

Name	Position	Term of office^[12]
Rajen Gohain	Union Minister of State for Railways in First Modi ministry.Member of Parliament for 4 times from Nowgong Lok Sabha constituency
Narayan Chandra Borkataky	Member of Parliament for 1 time from Mangaldoi Lok Sabha constituency.
Indramoni Bora	Member of Parliament Rajya Sabha for 1 time from Assam.	2003
Prabin Baruah^[13]		1992
Ramen Deka	Member of Parliament for 2 times from Mangaldoi Lok Sabha constituency.		2010
Ranjit Dutta	Cabinet Minister in Sonowal ministry from 2016-2021 and Member of Assam Legislative Assembly from Behali Assembly constituency	2010	2012
Sarbananda Sonowal	Chief Minister of Assam from 2016-2021,Union Cabinet Minister in First Modi ministry & Second Modi ministry.Member of Parliament for 2 times from Dibrugarh & Lakhimpur.Member of Assam Legislative Assembly for 2 times from Majuli & Moran.Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha	2012	2014
Siddhartha Bhattacharya	Cabinet Minister of Assam in Sonowal ministry & MLA from	17 August 2014	21 November 2015
Sarbananda Sonowal	Majuli	21 November 2015	25 December 2016
Ranjeet Kumar Dass	Sorbhog	25 December 2016	26 June 2021
Bhabesh Kalita	Rangiya		Incumbent

Chief ministers[edit]

No.	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Term of office^[14]			Assembly
1		Sarbananda Sonowal	Majuli	24 May 2016	10 May 2021	4 years, 351 days	14th
2		Himanta Biswa Sarma	Jalukbari	10 May 2021	Incumbent	2 years, 365 days	15th

Lok Sabha members[edit]

Year	No	Name		Votes
2024 Indian general election Bhabesh Kalita,President
2019 Indian general election Ranjeet Kumar Dass,President	1	Kripanath Mallah	Karimganj	4,73,046
	2	Rajdeep Roy	Silchar	4,99,414
	3	Horen Sing Bey	Autonomous District	3,81,316
	4	Queen Oja	Gauhati	10,08,936
	5	Dilip Saikia	Mangaldoi	7,35,469
	6	Pallab Lochan Das	Tezpur	6,84,166
	7	Topon Kumar Gogoi	Jorhat	5,43,288
	8	Rameshwar Teli	Dibrugarh	6,59,583
	9	Pradan Baruah	Lakhimpur	7,76,406
2014 Indian general election Sarbananda Sonowal,President	1	Ram Prasad Sharma	Tezpur
	2	Bijoya Chakravarty	Guwahati
	3	Rajen Gohain	Nowgong
	4	Sarbananda Sonowal	Lakhimpur
	By-election (4)	Pradan Baruah	Lakhimpur
	5	Kamakhya Prasad Tasa	Jorhat
	6	Ramen Deka	Mangaldoi
	7	Rameswar Teli	Dibrugarh

2009 Indian general election Ramen Deka,President	1	Ramen Deka	Mangaldoi
	2	Rajen Gohain	Nowgong
	3	Bijoya Chakravarty	Guwahati
	4	Kabindra Purkayastha	Silchar
2004 Indian general election Indramoni Bora,President	1	Rajen Gohain	Nowgong
2004 Indian general election Indramoni Bora,President	2	Narayan Chandra Borkataky	Mangaldoi
1999 Indian general election	1	Bijoya Chakravarty	Guwahati
1999 Indian general election	2	Rajen Gohain	Nowgong
1998 Indian general election	1	Kabindra Purkayastha	Silchar
1996 Indian general election Indramoni Bora,President	1	Dwaraka Nath Das	Karimganj
1991 Indian general election Prabin Baruah,President	1	Kabindra Purkayastha	Silchar
1991 Indian general election Prabin Baruah,President	2	Dwaraka Nath Das	Karimganj

Rajya Sabha members[edit]

No	Name^[15]		Alliance	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement
1	Bhubaneswar Kalita	Bharatiya Janata Party	National Democratic Alliance	10-Apr-2020	09-Apr-2026
2	Kamakhya Prasad Tasa			15-Jun-2019	14-Jun-2025
3	Sarbananda Sonowal			6-Oct-2021	09-Apr-2026
4	Pabitra Margherita			2-Apr-2022	2-Apr-2028
5	Biswajit Daimary			23 February 2021	2- May- 2021
6	Indramoni Bora			2001	2007

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

^ "Bharatiya Janata Party".
^ "What you need to know about India's BJP". AlJazeera. 23 May 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
^ https://assam.bjp.org/
^ Pragya Singh (15 January 2008). "Need to Know BJP-led BMS is biggest labour union in India". live mint. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
^ 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.
^ "BJP's Secular Model – Evident Along Country's Overall Progress; Asserts National Minority Secretary". 20 April 2022.
^ "Congress a 'sickular' Party, not secular: BJP".
^ "Candidates who know local language will have edge for govt. jobs". 2 December 2022.
^ "Neda: Going from strength to strength".
^ "BJP Assam get boost after winning corporation election". Business Standard.
^ "2024 Dima Hasao Autonomous Council election results". State Election Commission Assam. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
^ Chief Ministers Archived 16 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine from the Assam Assembly website
^ "Former Assam BJP president dead in Guwahati". Hindustan Times. 2009-09-29. Retrieved 2024-04-30.
^ Chief Ministers Archived 16 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine from the Assam Assembly website
^ "Statewise List". 164.100.47.5. Retrieved 12 June 2016.

Works cited[edit]

"List of Political Parties and Election Symbols main Notification Dated 18 January 2013" (PDF). India: Election Commission of India. 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2013.

[1] "Bharatiya Janata Party".

[:3001-2] "What you need to know about India's BJP". AlJazeera. 23 May 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2020.

[3] ttps://assam.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] "BJP's Secular Model – Evident Along Country's Overall Progress; Asserts National Minority Secretary". 20 April 2022.

[7] "Congress a 'sickular' Party, not secular: BJP".

[8] "Candidates who know local language will have edge for govt. jobs". 2 December 2022.

[9] "Neda: Going from strength to strength".

[10] "BJP Assam get boost after winning corporation election". Business Standard.

[NCHAC_election_results_2024-11] "2024 Dima Hasao Autonomous Council election results". State Election Commission Assam. Retrieved 12 January 2024.

[:02-12] Chief Ministers Archived 16 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine from the Assam Assembly website

[13] "Former Assam BJP president dead in Guwahati". Hindustan Times. 2009-09-29. Retrieved 2024-04-30.

[:0-14] Chief Ministers Archived 16 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine from the Assam Assembly website

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