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{{short description|Assam affiliate of the Bharatiya Janata Party}} {{Infobox Indian political party
| colorcode = {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
| native_name =
| logo = [[File:Logo of the Bharatiya Janata Party.svg|150px]]
| abbreviation = [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
| president = [[Dilip Saikia]]
| vice president - Pulok Gohain, Parimal Suklabaidya, Tapan Kumar Gogoi, Rekarani Das Boro, Aparajita Bhuyan
| general_secretary = Pallab Lochan Das, Diplu Ranjan Sarma, Rituparna Barua, Anup Barman,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bjp.org/state-general-secretary-org-assam | title=Bharatiya Janata Party }}</ref>
| headquarters = 'Atal Bihari Vajpayee Bhawan' Near Hengrabari L.P. School Hengrabari, Guwahati - 781 036 Assam, India
<ref>https://assam.bjp.org/</ref>
| colours = {{colour box|{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}}} [[Saffron (color)|Saffron]]
| loksabha_seats = {{Composition bar|9|14|hex=#FF9900}}
| rajyasabha_seats = {{Composition bar|4|7|hex=#FF9900}}
| state_seats_name = [[Assam Legislative Assembly]]
| state_seats = {{Composition bar|82|126|hex=#FF9933}}
| state2_seats_name =
| state2_seats =
| website = {{URL|https://assam.bjp.org/}}
| symbol = [[Nelumbo nucifera|Lotus]] [[File:Lotus flower symbol.svg|130px]]
| leader = [[Himanta Biswa Sarma]] {{small|(Chief Minister of Assam)}}
| foundation = {{start date and age|df=y|p=y|1980|4|6|br=y}}
| flag = BJP Flag.svg
| eci =
| alliance = [[National Democratic Alliance]] [[North East Democratic Alliance]]
| ideology = {{ubl|class=nowrap|
|[[Hindutva]]<ref name="Angana.p">* {{Cite book|last1=Chatterji|first1=Angana P.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zcObDwAAQBAJ&q=BJP%27s+Hindutva+ideology|title=Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism Is Changing India|last2=Hansen|first2=Thomas Blom|last3=Jaffrelot|first3=Christophe|date=2019|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0-19-007817-1|pages=100–130|author-link=Angana P. Chatterji|author-link2=Thomas Blom Hansen|author-link3=Christophe Jaffrelot|access-date=8 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414061226/https://books.google.com/books?id=zcObDwAAQBAJ&q=BJP%27s+Hindutva+ideology|archive-date=14 April 2023|url-status=live}}
* [[Christophe Jaffrelot|Jaffrelot, Christophe]], and Cynthia Schoch. "Conclusion to Part I." In Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy, 148–54. [[Princeton University Press]], 2021. {{doi|10.2307/j.ctv1dc9jzx.12}}.
* {{cite book|title=Ideology and Identity: The Changing Party Systems of India|last1=Chhibber|first1=Pradeep. K.|last2=Verma|first2=Rahul |isbn=978-0-19-062390-6|lccn=2018001733|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nJRqDwAAQBAJ|year=2018|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|access-date=2 May 2022|archive-date=14 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414061225/https://books.google.com/books?id=nJRqDwAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
|[[Assamese people|Assamese nationalism]]<ref>* Henrik Berglund. "Religion and Nationalism: Politics of BJP." [[Economic and Political Weekly]] 39, no. 10 (2004): 1064–70. {{JSTOR|4414737}}.
* Chhibber, Pradeep K. "State Policy, Party Politics, and the Rise of the BJP." In Democracy without Associations: Transformation of the Party System and Social Cleavages in India, 159–76. [[University of Michigan Press]], 1999. {{JSTOR|10.3998/mpub.23136.12}}.</ref>
|[[National conservatism]]<ref name="mathewjoh">* {{Cite book|last1=Johnson|first1=Matthew|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=smxQDwAAQBAJ&q=BJP+a+conservatism|title=Conservatism and Ideology|last2=Garnett|first2=Mark |last3=Walker|first3=David M|date=2017|publisher=[[Routledge]]|isbn=978-1-317-52900-2|pages=45–50|access-date=8 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414061245/https://books.google.com/books?id=smxQDwAAQBAJ&q=BJP+a+conservatism|archive-date=14 April 2023|url-status=live}}
* Björn Goldstein (2015) The unconscious Indianization of 'Western' conservatism – is Indian conservatism a universal model?, Global Discourse, 5:1, 44–65, {{doi|10.1080/23269995.2014.946315}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Mazumdar|first1=Surajit|date=2017|title=Neo-Liberalism and the Rise of Right-Wing Conservatism in India|url=https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/id/eprint/93182|journal=Desenvolvimento Em Debate|volume=5|issue=1|pages=115–131|doi=10.51861/ded.dmds.1.011|access-date=24 April 2022|archive-date=14 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414061248/https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/93182/|url-status=live| issn = 2176-9257|doi-access=free}}
* {{cite book|title=Ideology and Identity: The Changing Party Systems of India|last1=Chhibber|first1=Pradeep. K.|last2=Verma|first2=Rahul|isbn=978-0-19-062390-6|lccn=2018001733|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nJRqDwAAQBAJ|pages=50–150|year=2018|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|access-date=2 May 2022|archive-date=14 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414061225/https://books.google.com/books?id=nJRqDwAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
|[[Economic liberalism]]<ref name="Surajit 2017">* {{Cite journal|last=Mazumdar|first=Surajit|date=2017|title=Neo-Liberalism and the Rise of Right-Wing Conservatism in India|url=https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/id/eprint/93182 |url-status=live|journal=Desenvolvimento Em Debate|volume=5|issue=1 |pages=115–131|doi=10.51861/ded.dmds.1.011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414061248/https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/93182/|archive-date=14 April 2023|access-date=24 April 2022|doi-access=free}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Gopalakrishnan|first1=Shankar|title=Defining, Constructing and Policing a 'New India': Relationship between Neoliberalism and Hindutva|journal=Economic & Political Weekly|date=7 July 2006|volume=41|issue=26|pages=2803–2813|jstor=4418408|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4418408|access-date=26 September 2020|archive-date=17 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017234207/https://www.jstor.org/stable/4418408|url-status=live}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Wilson|first1=Kalpana|last2=Ung Loh|first2=Jennifer|last3=Purewal|first3=Navtej|title=Gender, Violence and the Neoliberal State in India|journal=Feminist Review|date=July 2018|volume=119|issue=1|pages=1–6|doi=10.1057/s41305-018-0109-8|s2cid=149814002|url=https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/25540/1/wilson-ung-loh-purewal-introduction-gender-violence-and-the-neoliberal-state-in-India.doc.pdf|access-date=8 November 2020|archive-date=10 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201210111943/https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/25540/1/wilson-ung-loh-purewal-introduction-gender-violence-and-the-neoliberal-state-in-India.doc.pdf|url-status=live}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Mathur|first1=Navdeep|title=The low politics of higher education: saffron branded neoliberalism and the assault on Indian universities|journal=Critical Policy Studies|date=2018|volume=12 |issue=1|pages=121–125|doi=10.1080/19460171.2017.1403343|s2cid=148842457}}</ref>
|[[Right-wing populism]]<ref>* {{cite journal|volume=26|issue=3|journal=Democratization|first1=Duncan|last1=McDonnell|year=2019|first2=Luis|last2=Cabrera|title=The right-wing populism of India's Bharatiya Janata Party (and why comparativists should care)|pages=484–501|doi=10.1080/13510347.2018.1551885|s2cid=149464986}}
* {{Cite book|last=Özçelik|first=Ezgi|title=Right-wing Populist Governments Rhetorical Framing of Economic Inequality : the Cases of BJP in India and AKP in Turkey|publisher=Koç University|year=2019}}</ref>
|[[Anti-immigration]]<ref name="Angana.p">* {{Cite book|last1=Chatterji|first1=Angana P.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zcObDwAAQBAJ&q=BJP%27s+Hindutva+ideology|title=Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism Is Changing India|last2=Hansen|first2=Thomas Blom|last3=Jaffrelot|first3=Christophe|date=2019|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0-19-007817-1|pages=100–130|author-link=Angana P. Chatterji|author-link2=Thomas Blom Hansen|author-link3=Christophe Jaffrelot|access-date=8 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414061226/https://books.google.com/books?id=zcObDwAAQBAJ&q=BJP%27s+Hindutva+ideology|archive-date=14 April 2023|url-status=live}}
* [[Christophe Jaffrelot|Jaffrelot, Christophe]], and Cynthia Schoch. "Conclusion to Part I." In Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy, 148–54. [[Princeton University Press]], 2021. {{doi|10.2307/j.ctv1dc9jzx.12}}.
* {{cite book|title=Ideology and Identity: The Changing Party Systems of India|last1=Chhibber|first1=Pradeep. K.|last2=Verma|first2=Rahul |isbn=978-0-19-062390-6|lccn=2018001733|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nJRqDwAAQBAJ|year=2018|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|access-date=2 May 2022|archive-date=14 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414061225/https://books.google.com/books?id=nJRqDwAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
}}
| position = [[Far-right politics|Far-right]]<ref>* {{cite journal|volume=26|issue=3|journal=Democratization|first1=Duncan|last1=McDonnell|year=2019|first2=Luis|last2=Cabrera|title=The right-wing populism of India's Bharatiya Janata Party (and why comparativists should care)|pages=484–501|doi=10.1080/13510347.2018.1551885|s2cid=149464986}}
* {{Cite book|last=Özçelik|first=Ezgi|title=Right-wing Populist Governments Rhetorical Framing of Economic Inequality : the Cases of BJP in India and AKP in Turkey|publisher=Koç University|year=2019}}</ref>
|slogan = ''Eight States. One Force.''<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/north-east/neda-going-from-strength-to-strength/cid/1703747 | title=Neda: Going from strength to strength }}</ref>
| youth = [[Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha]]
| women = [[BJP Mahila Morcha]]
| publication = '''[[Kamal Sandesh]]'''
| founder= {{ubl
| [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]
| [[L. K. Advani|Lal Krishna Advani]]<ref name=":3001">{{Cite news|date=23 May 2019|title=What you need to know about India's BJP|work=[[Al Jazeera]]|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/05/india-bjp-190523053850803.html|url-status=live|access-date=16 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200513075856/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/05/india-bjp-190523053850803.html|archive-date=13 May 2020}}</ref>
}} {{cslist
| title = Other founders<ref name="founders" />
| [[Murli Manohar Joshi]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jain |first=Praveen |date=7 January 2024 |title=Murli Manohar Joshi turns 90: Well-wishers flock to Raisina Road to celebrate life of BJP stalwart |url=https://theprint.in/in-pictures/murli-manohar-joshi-turns-90-well-wishers-flock-to-raisina-road-to-celebrate-life-of-bjp-stalwart/1913267/ |access-date=18 January 2025 |website=ThePrint |language=en-US}}</ref>
| [[Nanaji Deshmukh]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bharat Ratna for Pranab, Nanaji Deshmukh and Bhupen Hazarika |url=http://www.bihartimes.in/newsbihar/2019/jan/newsbihar25jan12.html |access-date=18 January 2025 |website=Bihar Times}}</ref>
| [[K. R. Malkani]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sir |first=Sp |date=29 April 2021 |title=K R Malkani - The Sindhu World Sindhi Author: The Sindh Story: Sindhi Politician: Political Mysteries |url=https://thesindhuworld.com/k-r-malkani/ |access-date=18 January 2025 |website=The Sindhu World |language=en-US}}</ref>
| [[Sikandar Bakht]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=6 April 2024 |script-title=hi:कौन थे बीजेपी के इकलौते मुस्लिम फाउंडर सिकंदर बख्त? जानिए कैसे थामा पार्टी का साथ |url=https://www.abplive.com/news/india/bjp-foundation-day-who-was-bjp-muslim-founder-sikandar-bakht-political-career-profile-in-hindi-2658177 |access-date=18 January 2025 |website= |language=hi}}</ref>
| [[Vijay Kumar Malhotra]]
| [[Vijaya Raje Scindia]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jain |first=Devaki |work=The Citizen (India) |url=https://www.thecitizen.in/index.php/en/NewsDetail/index/7/20759/The-Maharani-who-Founded-the-BJP |title=The Maharani who founded the BJP |date=14 August 2021 }}</ref>
| [[Bhairon Singh Shekhawat]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=22 May 2023 |title=Rajput votes at stake in Rajasthan, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat legacy a new front in BJP, Cong battle |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/rajput-rajasthan-bhairon-singh-shekhawat-bjp-congress-8623357/ |access-date=18 January 2025 |website=[[The Indian Express]] |language=en}}</ref>
| [[Shanta Kumar]]
| [[Ram Jethmalani]]
| [[Jagannathrao Joshi]]
}}
| predecessor =
* [[Bharatiya Jana Sangh]] (1951–1977)
* [[Janata Party]] (1977–1980)
| split = [[Janata Party]]
| labour = [[Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Need to Know BJP-led BMS is biggest labour union in India |url=https://www.livemint.com/Politics/ohkSVkDnWYnxvZyuzggTsL/Need-to-Know--BJPled-BMS-is-biggest-labour-union-in-India.html |access-date=17 March 2020 |work=live mint |date=15 January 2008 |author=Pragya Singh }}</ref>
| peasants = [[Bharatiya Kisan Sangh]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Gupta|first=Sejuta Das|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mQiKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA172|pages=172–173|title= Class, Politics, and Agricultural Policies in Post-liberalisation India|isbn=978-1-108-41628-3|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|year=2019e}}</ref>
| international =
| name =
}}

The '''Bharatiya Janata Party – Assam''' ('''BJP - Assam''')
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 [[Dilip Saikia]].

In 2016, BJP formed government at [[Assam|Assam state]] for the first time under the leadership of [[Sarbananda Sonowal]]. It is still a ruling party and had two Chief Ministers till date: Sarbananda Sonowal from 2016 to 2021 and [[Himanta Biswa Sarma]] from 2021–present.

==Electoral performance==
===Lok Sabha election===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Year
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Seats won
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |+/-
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Outcome
|-
|[[1991 Indian general election|1991]]
|{{Composition bar|2|14|{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}}}
|{{Increase}}2
|{{No|Opposition}}
|-
|[[1996 Indian general election|1996]]
|{{Composition bar|1|14|{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}}}
|{{decrease}}1
|{{partial|Government, later Opposition}}
|-
|[[1998 Indian general election|1998]]
|{{Composition bar|1|14|{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}}}
|{{steady}}
|{{yes|[[Second Vajpayee ministry|Government]]}}
|-
|[[1999 Indian general election|1999]]
|{{Composition bar|2|14|{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}}}
|{{increase}}1
|{{yes|[[Third Vajpayee ministry|Government]]}}
|-
|[[2004 Indian general election|2004]]
|{{Composition bar|2|14|{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}}}
|{{steady}}
|{{no|Opposition}}
|-
|[[2009 Indian general election|2009]]
|{{Composition bar|5|14|{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}}}
|{{increase}}3
|{{no|Opposition}}
|-
|[[2014 Indian general election|2014]]
|{{Composition bar|7|14|{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}}}
|{{increase}}2
|{{yes|[[First Modi ministry|Government]]}}
|-
|[[2019 Indian general election|2019]]
|{{Composition bar|9|14|{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}}}
|{{increase}}2
|{{yes|[[Second Modi ministry|Government]]}}
|-
|[[2024 Indian general election|2024]]
|{{Composition bar|9|14|{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}}}
|{{Steady}}
|{{yes|[[Third Modi ministry|Government]]}}
|}

===Legislative Assembly election===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white"|Year
!style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white"|Seats won
!style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white"|+/-
!style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Voteshare (%)
!style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |+/- (%)
!style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Outcome
|-
|[[1991 Assam Legislative Assembly election|1991]]
|{{Composition bar|10|126|hex=#FF9933}}
|{{Steady}}
|6.55%
|{{Steady}}
|{{no|Opposition}}
|-
|[[1996 Assam Legislative Assembly election|1996]]
|{{Composition bar|4|126|hex=#FF9933}}
|{{decrease}}6
|10.41%
|{{increase}}3.86%
|{{no|Opposition}}
|-
|[[2001 Assam Legislative Assembly election|2001]]
|{{Composition bar|8|126|hex=#FF9933}}
|{{increase}}4
|9.35%
|{{decrease}}1.06%
|{{no|Opposition}}
|-
|[[2006 Assam Legislative Assembly election|2006]]
|{{Composition bar|10|126|hex=#FF9933}}
|{{increase}}2
|11.98%
|{{increase}}2.63%
|{{no|Opposition}}
|-
|[[2011 Assam Legislative Assembly election|2011]]
|{{Composition bar|5|126|hex=#FF9933}}
|{{decrease}}5
|11.47%
|{{decrease}}0.51%
|{{no|Opposition}}
|-
|[[2016 Assam Legislative Assembly election|2016]]
|{{Composition bar|60|126|hex=#FF9933}}
|{{increase}}55
|29.5%
|{{increase}}18.03%
|{{yes|[[Sonowal ministry|Government]]}}
|-
|[[2021 Assam Legislative Assembly election|2021]]
|{{Composition bar|60|126|hex=#FF9933}}
|{{steady}}
|33.21%
|{{increase}}3.70%
|{{yes|[[Sarma ministry|Government]]}}
|-
|[[2026 Assam Legislative Assembly election|2026]]
|
|
|
|
|}

== Leadership ==

=== Chief ministers ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |#
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Portrait
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Name
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |[[List of constituencies of Assam Legislative Assembly|Constituency]]
! colspan="3" style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" | Term of office<ref name=":0">[http://assamassembly.nic.in/cm-list.html Chief Ministers] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116091830/http://assamassembly.nic.in/cm-list.html |date=16 January 2014 }} from the [http://assamassembly.nic.in/ Assam Assembly] website</ref>
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Assembly
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 1
| [[File:Chief Minister of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal.jpg|98x98px]]
| [[Sarbananda Sonowal]]
| [[Majuli (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Majuli]]
| 24 May 2016
| 10 May 2021
| {{Age in years and days|2016|5|24|2021|5|10}}
|[[2016 Assam Legislative Assembly election|14th]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 2
| [[File:Himanta Biswa Sarma with PM Narendra Modi Cropped.jpg|105x105px]]
| [[Himanta Biswa Sarma]]
| [[Jalukbari (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Jalukbari]]
| 10 May 2021
| ''Incumbent''
| {{Age in years and days|2021|5|10}}
|[[2021 Assam Legislative Assembly election|15th]]
|}

=== Presidents ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |#
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Portrait
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Name
! colspan="3" style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" | Term of office<ref name=":0" />
|-
|1
|
|Umanath Sarma
|1980
|1983
|3 years
|-
|2
|
|Lakheswar Gohain
|1983
|1985
|2 years
|-
|3
|
|Chakreswar Saikia
|1985
|1987
|2 years
|-
|4
|
|Jogeswar Mahanta
|1987
|1989
|2 years
|-
|5
|
|Prabin Baruah
|1989
|1995
|6 years
|-
|6
|
|[[Indramoni Bora]]
|1995
|1997
|2 years
|-
|7
|
|[[Narayan Chandra Borkataky]]
|
|
|
|-
|8
|[[File:Rajen Gohain assuming office as Minister of State, Railways (cropped).jpg|99x99px]]
|[[Rajen Gohain]]
|
|
|
|-
|(6)<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=28 December 2019 |title=Former Assam BJP President Indramoni Bora Passes Away |url=https://www.sentinelassam.com/topheadlines/former-assam-bjp-president-indramoni-bora-passes-away |access-date= |website=The Sentinel |language=}}</ref>
|
|[[Indramoni Bora]]
|19-Oct-2003
|2006
|3 years
|-
|9
|[[File:Ramen Deka with President Murmu (cropped).jpg|99x99px]]
|[[Ramen Deka]]
|2006
|2010
|4 years
|-
|10
|[[File:The Vice President, Shri M. Hamid Ansari lighting the lamp at the inaugural function of the 19th National Convention on Knowledge, Library and Information Networking - NACLIN 2016, at Tezpur University, in Assam (cropped).jpg|85x85px]]
|[[Ranjit Dutta]]
|2010
|2012
|2 years
|-
|11<ref>{{Cite web |date=10 November 2012 |title=Sarbananda state BJP president |url=https://assamtimes.org/node/7576 |website=Assamtimes}}</ref>
|[[File:Chief Minister of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal.jpg|98x98px]]
|[[Sarbananda Sonowal]]
|9-Nov-2012
|16-Aug-2014
|{{Age in years and days|9 November 2012|16 August 2014}}
|-
|12<ref>{{Cite news |date=17 August 2014 |title=Siddhartha Bhattacharya to head state BJP |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/Siddhartha-Bhattacharya-to-head-state-BJP/articleshow/40319090.cms |access-date= |work=The Times of India |issn=}}</ref>
|[[File:Siddhartha Bhattacharya.jpg|100x100px]]
|[[Siddhartha Bhattacharya]]
|16-Aug-2014
|21-Nov-2015
|{{Age in years and days|16 August 2014|21 November 2015}}
|-
|13<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 November 2015 |title=Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal Appointed Assam BJP Chief |url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/union-minister-sarbananda-sonowal-appointed-assam-bjp-chief-1245900 |website=NDTV}}</ref>
|[[File:Chief Minister of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal.jpg|98x98px]]
|[[Sarbananda Sonowal]]
|21-Nov-2015
|16-Dec-2016
|{{Age in years and days|21 November 2015|16 December 2016}}
|-
|14<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=16 December 2016 |title=BJP appoints scribe-turned-speaker Ranjit Kumar Das its Assam unit chief |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2016/Dec/16/bjp-appoints-scribe-turned-speaker-ranjit-kumar-das-its-assam-unit-chief-1549835.html |access-date= |website=The New Indian Express |language=}}</ref>
|[[File:Ranjeet Kumar Dass official portrait.jpg|96x96px]]
|[[Ranjeet Kumar Dass]]
|16-Dec-2016
|26-Jun-2021
|{{Age in years and days|16 December 2016|26 June 2021}}
|-
|15<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=26 June 2021 |title=BJP appoints MLA Bhabesh Kalita in-charge of Assam, Sharda Devi president of Manipur unit |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/bjp-nadda-appoints-bhabesh-kalita-assam-sharda-devi-manipur-president-1819735-2021-06-26 |access-date= |website=India Today |language=}}</ref>
|[[File:Bhabesh Kalita portrait.jpg|94x94px]]
|[[Bhabesh Kalita]]
|26-Jun-2021
|16-Jan-2025
|{{Age in years and days|26 June 2021|16 January 2025}}
|-
|16<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=16 January 2025 |title=Lok Sabha MP Dilip Saikia set to become new Assam BJP chief |url=https://theprint.in/india/lok-sabha-mp-dilip-saikia-set-to-become-new-assam-bjp-chief/2448884/ |access-date= |website=ThePrint |language=}}</ref>
|
|[[Dilip Saikia]]
|16-Jan-2025
|''present''
|{{Age in years and days|16 January 2025}}
|}
==See also==
*[[Asom Gana Parishad]]
*[[United People's Party Liberal]]
*[[Bodoland People's Front]]
*[[National Democratic Alliance]]
*[[North East Democratic Alliance]]
*[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
*[[Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (2018)|Meghalaya Democratic Alliance]]
*[[People's Democratic Alliance (Nagaland)|People's Democratic Alliance, Nagaland]]
* [[Bharatiya Janata Party – Gujarat]]
* [[Bharatiya Janata Party – Uttar Pradesh]]
* [[Bharatiya Janata Party – Madhya Pradesh]]
* [[State units of the Bharatiya Janata Party]]

== Notes ==
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==References==
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===Works cited===
* {{cite web |title=List of Political Parties and Election Symbols main Notification Dated 18 January 2013 |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/ElectoralLaws/OrdersNotifications/ElecSym19012013_eng.pdf |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date=9 May 2013 |location=India |year=2013 |ref={{harvid |Election Commission |2013}} }}

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