Bharatiya Janata Party, Jammu and Kashmir
Appearance
भारतीय जनता पार्टी, जम्मू कश्मीर | |
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Abbreviation | BJP |
President | Ravinder Raina[1] |
Founder | |
Founded | 6 April 1980 |
Split from | Janata Party |
Preceded by |
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Headquarters | Dr. 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)
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Seats in Rajya Sabha | 0 / 4 (as of 2024)
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Seats in Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly | 29 / 90 (as of 2024)
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Seats in Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council | 0 / 36 (as of 2024)
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Election symbol | |
Lotus | |
Party flag | |
Website | |
jkbjp | |
The Bharatiya Janata Party, or simply, BJP Jammu and Kashmir (BJP; [bʱaːɾət̪iːjə dʒənət̪aː paːrtiː] ; 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 [9]. The current president of BJP, Jammu and Kashmir is Ravinder Raina[10]
History
[edit]Lok Sabha Election history
[edit]Year | Seats won | +/- | Outcome |
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1984 | 0 / 6
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new | Opposition |
1989 | 0 / 6
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Opposition | |
1991 | Election not held because of insurgency until 1996 | Opposition | |
1996 | 1 / 6
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1 | Government, later Opposition |
1998 | 2 / 6
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1 | Government |
1999 | 2 / 6
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2004 | 0 / 6
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2 | Opposition |
2009 | 0 / 6
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2014 | 3 / 6
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3 | Government |
2019 | 3 / 6
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After Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir | |||
2024 | 2 / 5
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Goverment |
Rajya Sabha history
[edit]Name | Photo | Date of appointment |
Date of retirement |
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Shamsheer Singh Manhas | 11/2/2015 | 10/2/2021 |
Legislative Assembly Election history
[edit]Year | Seats won | +/- | Voteshare (%) | +/- (%) | Outcome |
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1983 | 0 / 76 |
New | 3.19% | New | opposition |
1987 | 2 / 76 |
2 | 5.10% | 1.91% | |
1996 | 8 / 87 |
6 | 12.13% | 7.03% | |
2002 | 1 / 87 |
7 | 8.57% | 3.56% | |
2008 | 11 / 87 |
10 | 12.45% | 3.88% | |
2014 | 25 / 87 |
14 | 23.0% | 10.55% | Coalition Government with PDP |
After Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir | |||||
2024 | 29 / 90 |
4 | 25.64% | 2.64% | opposition |
Legislative Assembly Council history
[edit]75 / 278
Municipal corporation
[edit]43 / 75
4 / 74
References
[edit]- ^ "BJP J&K president". BJP Website.
- ^ "What you need to know about India's BJP". AlJazeera. 23 May 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ^ "BJP J&K unit address".
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Members". idu.org. International Democrat Union. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
- ^ "International Democrat Union » Asia Pacific Democrat Union (APDU)". International Democrat Union. Archived from the original on 16 June 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
- ^ "BJP J&K unit address".
- ^ "BJP J&K president". BJP Website.
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