| 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,[1] |
| 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
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[2] | Assembly | ||
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| 1 | File:Chief Minister of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal.jpg | Sarbananda Sonowal | Majuli | 24 May 2016 | 10 May 2021 | Template:Age in years and days | 14th |
| 2 | File:Himanta Biswa Sarma with PM Narendra Modi Cropped.jpg | Himanta Biswa Sarma | Jalukbari | 10 May 2021 | Incumbent | Template:Age in years and days | 15th |
Presidents
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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
Notes
References
- ↑ Bharatiya Janata Party.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chief Ministers Template:Webarchive from the Assam Assembly website
- ↑ Former Assam BJP President Indramoni Bora Passes Away. The Sentinel(28 December 2019).
- ↑ Sarbananda state BJP president. Assamtimes(10 November 2012).
- ↑ Siddhartha Bhattacharya to head state BJP. The Times of India(17 August 2014).
- ↑ Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal Appointed Assam BJP Chief. NDTV(21 November 2015).
- ↑ BJP appoints scribe-turned-speaker Ranjit Kumar Das its Assam unit chief. The New Indian Express(16 December 2016).
- ↑ BJP appoints MLA Bhabesh Kalita in-charge of Assam, Sharda Devi president of Manipur unit. India Today(26 June 2021).
- ↑ Lok Sabha MP Dilip Saikia set to become new Assam BJP chief. ThePrint(16 January 2025).
Works cited
- List of Political Parties and Election Symbols main Notification Dated 18 January 2013. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 9 May 2013.