Bharatiya Janata Party, Himachal Pradesh

Bharatiya Janata Party, Himachal Pradesh

भारतीय जनता पार्टी, हिमाचल प्रदेश
Bharatiya Janata Party, Himachal Pradesh भारतीय जनता पार्टी, हिमाचल प्रदेश
Abbreviation	BJP
Leader	Jai Ram Thakur; (Leader of the Opposition)
President	Rajeev Bindal
General Secretary	Pavan Rana
Founded	6 April 1980; (44 years ago)
Headquarters	Deep Kamal, Kamna Nagar, Shimla-5 Himachal Pradesh
ECI Status	National Party
Seats in Lok Sabha	3 / 4 (as of 2022)
Seats in Rajya Sabha	3 / 3 (as of 2022)
Seats in Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly	25 / 68 (as of 2022)
Website
	hp.bjp.org
	Politics of India; Political parties; Elections;

Bharatiya Janata Party, Himachal Pradesh, or simply, BJP HP is the affiliate of Bharatiya Janata Party for the state of Himachal Pradesh. Its head office is situated at the Deep Kamal Chakkar, Shimla.

Electoral history[edit]

Legislative Assembly election[edit]

Year	Party leader	Seats won	+/-	Voteshare (%)	+/- (%)	Outcome
Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1967	Shanta Kumar	7 / 60	7	13.87%	13.87	Opposition
1972	Shanta Kumar	5 / 68	2	7.75%	6.12%	Opposition
Bharatiya Janata Party
1982	Shanta Kumar	29 / 68	29	35.16%	35.16%	Opposition
1985		7 / 68	22	30.61%	4.55%	Opposition
1990		46 / 68	39	41.78%	11.17	Government
1993		8 / 68	38	36.14%	5.64%	Opposition
1998	Prem Kumar Dhumal	31 / 68	23	39.02%	2.88%	Government
2003		16 / 68	15	35.38%	3.64%	Opposition
2007		41 / 68	25	43.78%	8.4%	Government
2012		26 / 68	15	38.47%	5.31%	Opposition
2017	Jai Ram Thakur	44 / 68	18	48.79%	10.32%	Government
2022	Jai Ram Thakur	25 / 68	19	43%	5.79%	Opposition

Lok Sabha seats[edit]

Year	Legislature	Party leader	Seats won	Change in seats	Outcome
1984	8th Lok Sabha	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	0 / 4		Opposition
1989	9th Lok Sabha	Lal Krishna Advani	3 / 4	3	Outside support for NF
1991	10th Lok Sabha	Lal Krishna Advani	2 / 4	2	Opposition
1996	11th Lok Sabha	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	0 / 4	2	Government, later opposition
1998	12th Lok Sabha		3 / 4	3	Government
1999	13th Lok Sabha		3 / 4		Government
2004	14th Lok Sabha		1 / 4	2	Opposition
2009	15th Lok Sabha	Lal Krishna Advani	3 / 4	2	Opposition
2014	16th Lok Sabha	Narendra Modi	4 / 4	1	Government
2019	17th Lok Sabha	Narendra Modi	4 / 4		Government

List of Current Members[edit]

In Himachal Legislative Assembly[edit]

District	No.	Constituency	Name		Remarks
Chamba	1	Churah (SC)	Hans Raj	Bharatiya Janata Party
	2	Bharmour (ST)	Janak Raj	Bharatiya Janata Party
	4	Dalhousie	D S Thakur	Bharatiya Janata Party
Kangra	6	Nurpur	Ranveer Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
	11	Jaswan-Pragpur	Bikram Thakur	Bharatiya Janata Party
	14	Sullah	Vipin Singh Parmar	Bharatiya Janata Party
	16	Kangra	Pawan Kumar Kajal	Bharatiya Janata Party
Kullu	24	Banjar	Surender Shourie	Bharatiya Janata Party
Kullu	25	Anni (SC)	Lokendra Kumar	Bharatiya Janata Party
Mandi	26	Karsog (SC)	Deepraj Kapoor	Bharatiya Janata Party
	27	Sundernagar	Rakesh Jamwal	Bharatiya Janata Party
	28	Nachan (SC)	Vinod Kumar	Bharatiya Janata Party
	29	Seraj	Jai Ram Thakur	Bharatiya Janata Party	Leader of Opposition
	30	Darang	Puranchand Thakur	Bharatiya Janata Party
	33	Mandi	Anil Sharma	Bharatiya Janata Party
	34	Balh (SC)	Indra Singh Gandhi	Bharatiya Janata Party
	35	Sarkaghat	Daleep Thakur	Bharatiya Janata Party
Una	44	Una	Satpal Singh Satti	Bharatiya Janata Party
Bilaspur	46	Jhanduta (SC)	Jeet Ram Katwal	Bharatiya Janata Party
	48	Bilaspur	Trilok Jamwal	Bharatiya Janata Party
	49	Sri Naina Deviji	Randhir Sharma	Bharatiya Janata Party
Sirmaur	55	Pachhad (SC)	Reena Kashyap	Bharatiya Janata Party
Sirmaur	58	Paonta Sahib	Sukh Ram Chaudhary	Bharatiya Janata Party
Shimla	60	Chopal	Balbir Singh Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party

In Lok Sabha[edit]

No	Constituency	Name
1	Kangra	Kishan Kapoor	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	Hamirpur	Anurag Thakur	Bharatiya Janata Party
3	Shimla (SC)	Suresh Kumar Kashyap	Bharatiya Janata Party

In Rajya Sabha[edit]

No	Name^[1]		Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement
1	Jagat Prakash Nadda	BJP	03-Apr-2018	02-Apr-2024
2	Indu Goswami	BJP	10-Apr-2020	09-Apr-2026
3	Sikander Kumar	BJP	03-Apr-2022	02-Apr-2028

Leadership[edit]

Chief Minister[edit]

No	Name	Constituency	Term of Office		Tenure	Assembly
1	Shanta Kumar	Palampur	5 March 1990	15 December 1992	2 years, 285 days	7th
2	Prem Kumar Dhumal	Bamsan	24 March 1998	5 March 2003	9 years, 342 days	9th
2	Prem Kumar Dhumal	Bamsan	30 December 2007	25 December 2012	9 years, 342 days	11th
3	Jai Ram Thakur	Seraj	27 December 2017	11 December 2022	4 years, 349 days	13th

President[edit]

No	Name	Tenure
1	Gangaram Thakur	1980	1984	4 years
2	Nageen Chand Pal	1984	1986	2 years
3	Shanta Kumar	1986	1990	4 years
4	Maheshwar Singh	1990	1993	3 years
5	Prem Kumar Dhumal	1993	1998	5 years
6	Suresh Chandel	1998	2000	2 years
7	Jai Krishan Sharma	2000	2003	3 years
8	Suresh Bhardwaj	2003	2007	4 years
9	Jai Ram Thakur	2007	2009	2 years
10	Khimi Ram	2009	2010	1 year
11	Satpal Singh Satti	2010	2020	10 years
12^[2]	Rajeev Bindal	18-Jan-2020	22-Jul-2020	186 days
13^[3]	Suresh Kumar Kashyap	22-Jul-2020	23-Apr-2023	2 years, 275 days
(12)^[4]	Rajeev Bindal	23-Apr-2023	Present	1 year, 16 days

References[edit]

^ "Statewise List". 164.100.47.5. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
^ "Rajiv Bindal unanimously elected Himachal BJP president". Tribuneindia News Service. 18 January 2020.
^ "Lok Sabha MP Suresh Kumar Kashyap elected as Himachal Pradesh BJP president". ThePrint. 22 July 2020.
^ https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/bjp-appoints-rajeev-bindal-as-partys-himachal-pradesh-chief-3973608

[members2-1] "Statewise List". 164.100.47.5. Retrieved 12 June 2016.

[2] "Rajiv Bindal unanimously elected Himachal BJP president". Tribuneindia News Service. 18 January 2020.

[3] "Lok Sabha MP Suresh Kumar Kashyap elected as Himachal Pradesh BJP president". ThePrint. 22 July 2020.

[4] ttps://www.ndtv.com/india-news/bjp-appoints-rajeev-bindal-as-partys-himachal-pradesh-chief-3973608

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