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| Abbreviation | BJP |
| President | Ravindra Chavan |
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Bharatiya Janata Party – Maharashtra (BJP Maharashtra) is a state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Indian state of Maharashtra The headquarters is located in Mumbai.
The BJP came into being after a split from the Janata party. The prominent members of BJP had been the part of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh founded by Syama Prasad Mukherjee. Jana Sangh was the political arm of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and was dissolved in 1977. On 1 July 2025, Ravindra Chavan was appointed by the party leadership as the president of the BJP Maharashtra.
The BJP is aligned with right-wing politics, and its policies adhere to Hindutva, a Hindu nationalist ideology. It has close ideological and organisational links to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). After the 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Elections held in November 2024 Bharatiya Janata Party is Maharashtra's Biggest Political Party in terms of representation in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly , in Legislative Council of Maharashtra State and in Rajya Sabha members from Rajya Sabha of Maharashtra.
Electoral History
Lok Sabha elections
Vidhan Sabha elections
Leadership
| # | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term of Office | Assembly | ||
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| 1 | File:Shri Devendra Gangadharrao Fadnavis.jpg | Devendra Fadnavis | Nagpur South West | 31 October 2014 | 12 November 2019 | Template:Age in years and days | 13th |
| 23 November 2019 | 28 November 2019 | 14th | |||||
| 5 December 2024 | Incumbent | 15th | |||||
| # | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term of Office | Chief Minister | ||
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| 1 | File:Gopinath Ji Munde.jpg | Gopinath Munde | Renapur | 14 March 1995 | 18 October 1999 | Template:Ayd | Manohar Joshi Narayan Rane |
| 2 | File:Shri Devendra Gangadharrao Fadnavis.jpg | Devendra Fadnavis | Nagpur South West | 30 June 2022 | 26 November 2024 | Template:Ayd | Eknath Shinde |
| # | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term of Office | Chief Minister | ||
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| 1 | File:Gopinath Ji Munde.jpg | Gopinath Munde | Renapur | 12 December 1991 | 14 March 1995 | Template:Ayd | Sudhakarrao Naik Sharad Pawar |
| 2 | File:Eknath Khadse (cropped).jpg | Eknath Khadse | Muktainagar | 11 November 2009 | 31 October 2014 | Template:Ayd | Ashok Chavan Prithviraj Chavan |
| 3 | File:Shri Devendra Gangadharrao Fadnavis.jpg | Devendra Fadnavis | Nagpur South West | 1 December 2019 | 29 June 2022 | Template:Ayd | Uddhav Thackeray |
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| # | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term of Office | Chief Minister | ||
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| 1 | Anna Dange | MLA's | 2 July 1992 | 30 July 1993 | Template:Ayd | Sudhakarrao Naik Sharad Pawar | |
| 30 July 1994 | 14 March 1995 | Sharad Pawar | |||||
| 2 | File:Nitin J Gadkari.JPG | Nitin Gadkari | Nagpur Graduates | 23 October 1999 | 11 April 2005 | Template:Ayd | Vilasrao Deshmukh Sushilkumar Shinde |
| 3 | Pandurang Fundkar | MLA's | 11 April 2005 | 22 December 2011 | Template:Ayd | Vilasrao Deshmukh Ashok Chavan Prithviraj Chavan | |
| 4 | File:Vinod Tawde in 2015.jpg | Vinod Tawde | MLA's | 23 December 2011 | 20 October 2014 | Template:Ayd | Prithviraj Chavan |
| 5 | File:Sangram deshmukh with pravin darekar (cropped).jpg | Pravin Darekar | MLA's | 16 December 2019 | 29 June 2022 | Template:Ayd | Uddhav Thackeray |
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Party Presidents
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Status in Municipal Corporations
See also
- Bharatiya Janata Party
- National Democratic Alliance
- Shiv Sena
- Nationalist Congress Party
- Rashtriya Samaj Paksha
- Maharashtra Navnirman Sena
Notes
References
- ↑ TROUBLED STATES. India Today.
- ↑ Gadkari replaces Munde as Maharashtra BJP chief. Rediff(18 November 2004).
- ↑ Sudhir Mungantiwar new Maharashtra BJP chief. The Hindu(3 April 2010).
- ↑ Devendra Fadnavis new BJP Maharashtra president. The Economic Times(11 April 2013).
- ↑ Union minister Danve named new Maharashtra BJP chief. The Indian Express(6 January 2015).
- ↑ Chandrakant Patil appointed BJP's Maharashtra chief. The Pioneer(16 July 2019).
- ↑ With polls in mind, BJP appoints Chandrashekhar Bawankule as new Maharashtra State President. The Hindu(12 August 2022).
- ↑ Ravindra Chavan appointed as working state President of Maharashtra BJP | Mint. livemint(11 January 2025).