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Bharatiya Janata Party, Jammu and Kashmir भारतीय जनता पार्टी, जम्मू कश्मीर
Abbreviation	BJP
President	Sat Paul Sharma
Founder	Atal Bihari Vajpayee Lal Krishna Advani
Founded	6 April 1980 (44 years ago) (1980-04-06)
Split from	Janata Party
Preceded by	Bharatiya Jana Sangh (1951–1977) Janata Party (1977–1980)
Headquarters	Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookherjee Bhawan, Sector - 3 Extension, Trikuta Nagar, Jammu - 180 012 Jammu and Kashmir
Newspaper	Kamal Sandesh
Youth wing	Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha
Women's wing	BJP Mahila Morcha
Labour wing	Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh
Peasant's wing	Bharatiya Kisan Sangh
Ideology	Integral humanism Social conservatism Economic nationalism Hindu nationalism Cultural nationalism
International affiliation	International Democrat Union Asia Pacific Democrat Union
Colours	Saffron
Alliance	National Democratic Alliance
Seats in Lok Sabha	2 / 5 (as of 2024)
Seats in Rajya Sabha	0 / 4(as of 2024)
Seats in Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly	29 / 90(as of 2024)
Seats in Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council	0 / 36(as of 2024)
Election symbol
Lotus
Party flag
Website
jkbjp.in
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The Bharatiya Janata Party, or simply, BJP Jammu and Kashmir (BJP; [bʱaːɾət̪iːjə dʒənət̪aː paːrtiː] ; lit. 'Indian People's Party'), is the unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party of the Union Territory, Jammu and Kashmir. Its head office is situated at Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookherjee Bhawan, Sector - 3 Extension, Trikuta Nagar, Jammu - 180 012, Jammu and Kashmir. The current president of BJP, Jammu and Kashmir is Sat Paul Sharma

Electoral performance

Lok Sabha Election

Year	Seats won	+/-	Outcome
1984	0 / 6	new	Opposition
1989	0 / 6		Opposition
1991	Election not held because of insurgency until 1996		Opposition
1996	1 / 6	1	Government, later Opposition
1998	2 / 6	1	Government
1999	2 / 6
2004	0 / 6	2	Opposition
2009	0 / 6
2014	3 / 6	3	Government
2019	3 / 6
After Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir
2024	2 / 5		Government

Rajya Sabha Election

Legislative Assembly Election

Year	Seats won	+/-	Voteshare (%)	+/- (%)	Outcome
1983	0 / 76	New	3.19%	New	opposition
1987	2 / 76	2	5.10%	1.91%
1996	8 / 87	6	12.13%	7.03%
2002	1 / 87	7	8.57%	3.56%
2008	11 / 87	10	12.45%	3.88%
2014	25 / 87	14	23.0%	10.55%	Coalition Government with PDP
After Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir
2024	29 / 90	4	25.64%	2.64%	opposition

District Development Council

Municipal corporation

Jammu Municipal Corporation

Srinagar Municipal Corporation

Leadership

Deputy Chief Ministers

No	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Term			Assembly	Chief minister
1		Nirmal Kumar Singh	Billawar	4 April 2016	29 April 2018	2 years, 25 days	12th	Mehbooba Mufti
2		Kavinder Gupta	Gandhinagar	30 April 2018	19 June 2018	50 days

List of opposition leaders

Elected members

Incumbent member(s) of Lok Sabha

S.No.	Constituency		Portrait	Name	Win Margin in 2024
	#	Name
01.	4	Udhampur		Jitendra Singh	1,24,373
02.	5	Jammu		Jugal Kishore Sharma	1,35,498

Incumbent member(s) of Legislative Assembly

List of State Presidents

• Sat Pal Sharma : 2024-incumbent
• Ravinder Raina : 2018-2024
• Sat Pal Sharma : 2015-2018
• Jugal Kishore Sharma : 2012-2015
• Shamser Singh Manhas : 2010-2012
• Ashok Khajuria : 2006-2010
• Dr.Nirmal Singh : 2002-2006
• Daya Krishnan Kotwal : 1996-2002
• Vaid Vishnu Dutt : 1994-1996
• Chaman Lal Gupta : 1989-1994
• Baldev Singh : 1980-1989

See Also

• Bharatiya Jana Sangh
• Organisation of the Bharatiya Janata Party
• Jammu Praja Parishad

References

1. ^ "Sat Sharma appointed as Jammu and Kashmir BJP president". The Hindu. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
2. "What you need to know about India's BJP". AlJazeera. 23 May 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
3. "BJP J&K unit address".
4. Pragya Singh (15 January 2008). "Need to Know BJP-led BMS is biggest labour union in India". live mint. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
5. Gupta, Sejuta Das (2019e). Class, Politics, and Agricultural Policies in Post-liberalisation India. Cambridge University Press. pp. 172–173. ISBN 978-1-108-41628-3.
6. Pillalamarri, Akhilesh. "India's Bharatiya Janata Party Joins Union of International Conservative Parties — The Diplomat". The Diplomat. Archived from the original on 28 February 2016.
7. "Members". idu.org. International Democrat Union. February 2018. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
8. "International Democrat Union » Asia Pacific Democrat Union (APDU)". International Democrat Union. Archived from the original on 16 June 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
9. "BJP J&K unit address".
10. https://jkbjp.in/leadership/state-presidents/

• Political parties in Jammu and Kashmir
• Bharatiya Janata Party by state or union territory