Bharatiya Janata Party Assam-270098

Bharatiya Janata Party Assam-270098
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Abbreviation	BJP
President	Dilip Saikia
Founder	Template:Ubl Template:Cslist
General Secretary	Pallab Lochan Das, Diplu Ranjan Sarma, Rituparna Barua, Anup Barman,
Working President

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 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

Year	Seats won	+/-	Outcome
1991	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase2	Template:No
1996	Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease1	Template:Partial
1998	Template:Composition bar	Template:Steady	Template:Yes
1999	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase1	Template:Yes
2004	Template:Composition bar	Template:Steady	Template:No
2009	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase3	Template:No
2014	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase2	Template:Yes
2019	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase2	Template:Yes
2024	Template:Composition bar	Template:Steady	Template:Yes

Legislative Assembly election

Year	Seats won	+/-	Voteshare (%)	+/- (%)	Outcome
1991	Template:Composition bar	Template:Steady	6.55%	Template:Steady	Template:No
1996	Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease6	10.41%	Template:Increase3.86%	Template:No
2001	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase4	9.35%	Template:Decrease1.06%	Template:No
2006	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase2	11.98%	Template:Increase2.63%	Template:No
2011	Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease5	11.47%	Template:Decrease0.51%	Template:No
2016	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase55	29.5%	Template:Increase18.03%	Template:Yes
2021	Template:Composition bar	Template:Steady	33.21%	Template:Increase3.70%	Template:Yes
2026

Leadership

Chief ministers

#	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Term of office			Assembly
1		Sarbananda Sonowal	Majuli	24 May 2016	10 May 2021	Template:Age in years and days	14th
2		Himanta Biswa Sarma	Jalukbari	10 May 2021	Incumbent	Template:Age in years and days	15th

Presidents

#	Portrait	Name	Term of office
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		Rajen Gohain
(6)		Indramoni Bora	19-Oct-2003	2006	3 years
9		Ramen Deka	2006	2010	4 years
10		Ranjit Dutta	2010	2012	2 years
11		Sarbananda Sonowal	9-Nov-2012	16-Aug-2014	Template:Age in years and days
12		Siddhartha Bhattacharya	16-Aug-2014	21-Nov-2015	Template:Age in years and days
13		Sarbananda Sonowal	21-Nov-2015	16-Dec-2016	Template:Age in years and days
14		Ranjeet Kumar Dass	16-Dec-2016	26-Jun-2021	Template:Age in years and days
15		Bhabesh Kalita	26-Jun-2021	16-Jan-2025	Template:Age in years and days
16		Dilip Saikia	16-Jan-2025	present	Template:Age in years and days

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
• 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

References

Works cited

• List of Political Parties and Election Symbols main Notification Dated 18 January 2013. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 9 May 2013.