Bharatiya Janata Party, Maharashtra

Bharatiya Janata Party, Maharashtra

भारतीय जनता पार्टी, महाराष्ट्र
Bharatiya Janata Party, Maharashtra भारतीय जनता पार्टी, महाराष्ट्र
Abbreviation	BJP
Leader	Devendra Fadnavis (Deputy Chief Minister)
President	Chandrashekhar Bawankule
General Secretary	Dadarao Keche
Headquarters	Dadar, Mumbai, Maharashtra
Colours	Saffron
ECI Status	National Party
Seats in Lok Sabha	9 / 48
Seats in Rajya Sabha	8 / 19
Seats in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly	103 / 288
Seats in Maharashtra Legislative Council	25 / 78
Election symbol
	Lotus;
Party flag
Website
	bjpmaharashtra.org
	Politics of India; Political parties; Elections;

Bharatiya Janata Party, Maharashtra (or 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 12 August 2022, Chandrashekhar Bawankule was appointed by the party leadership as the president of the BJP Maharashtra.

On 1 November 2024, Dadarao Keche was appointed by the party leadership as general secretary and vice 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). As of September 2019, it is the maharashtra's biggest political party in terms of representation in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra State as well as state legislatures.

Electoral History

Lok Sabha elections

Year	Seats won	+/-
1984	0 / 28
1989	11 / 48	11
1991	5 / 48	6
1996	18 / 48	2
1998	3 / 48	15
1999	13 / 48	10
2004	13 / 48
2009	9 / 48	4
2014	23 / 48	14
2019	23 / 48
2024	9 / 48	14

Vidhan Sabha elections

Year	Seats won	Seats contested	+/-	Voteshare (%)	+/- (%)	Outcome
1980	14 / 288	145	14	9.38%	–	Opposition
1985	16 / 288	67	2	7.25%	2.13%
1990	42 / 288	104	26	10.71%	3.46%
1995	65 / 288	116	23	12.80%	2.09%	Government
1999	56 / 288	117	9	14.54%	1.74%	Opposition
2004	54 / 288	111	2	13.67%	0.87%
2009	46 / 288	119	8	14.02%	0.35%
2014	122 / 288	260	76	27.81%	13.79%	Government
2019	105 / 288	150	17	25.75%	2.06%	Government
2024

Leadership

Chief Minister

#	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Term of Office			Assembly
1		Devendra Fadnavis	Nagpur South West	31 October 2014	12 November 2019	5 years, 12 days	13th
1		Devendra Fadnavis	Nagpur South West	23 November 2019	28 November 2019	5 days	14th

Deputy Chief Ministers

#	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Term of Office			Chief Minister
1		Gopinath Munde	Renapur	14 March 1995	18 October 1999	4 years, 218 days	Manohar Joshi Narayan Rane
2		Devendra Fadnavis	Nagpur South West	30 June 2022	Incumbent	2 years, 135 days	Eknath Shinde

Leader of the Opposition
Maharashtra Legislative Assembly

#	Name	Constituency	Term of Office			Chief Minister
1	Gopinath Munde	Renapur	12 December 1991	14 March 1995	3 years, 92 days	Sudhakarrao Naik Sharad Pawar
2	Eknath Khadse	Muktainagar	11 November 2009	31 October 2014	4 years, 354 days	Ashok Chavan Prithviraj Chavan
3	Devendra Fadnavis	Nagpur South West	1 December 2019	29 June 2022	2 years, 210 days	Uddhav Thackeray

Leader of the Opposition
Maharashtra Legislative Council

#	Name	Constituency	Term of Office			Chief Minister
1	Anna Dange		2 July 1992	30 July 1993	1 year, 28 days	Sudhakarrao Naik Sharad Pawar
1	Anna Dange		30 July 1994	14 March 1995	227 days (1 year, 255 days)	Sharad Pawar
2	Nitin Gadkari	Nagpur Graduates	23 October 1999	11 April 2005	5 years, 170 days	Vilasrao Deshmukh Sushilkumar Shinde Vilasrao Deshmukh
3	Pandurang Fundkar	MLA's	11 April 2005	22 December 2011	6 years, 255 days	Vilasrao Deshmukh Ashok Chavan Prithviraj Chavan
4	Vinod Tawde	MLA's	23 December 2011	20 October 2014	2 years, 301 days	Prithviraj Chavan
5	Pravin Darekar	MLA's	16 December 2019	29 June 2022	2 years, 195 days	Uddhav Thackeray

Party Presidents

#	Name	Term of Office
1	Uttamrao Patil	1980	1986	6 years
2	Gopinath Munde	1986	1991	5 years
3	N. S. Pharande	1991	1994	3 years
4	Suryabhan Vahadane-Patil	1994	2000	6 years
5^[1]	Pandurang Fundkar	2000	2005	5 years
6	Nitin Gadkari	2005	2009	4 years
7^[2]	Sudhir Mungantiwar	03-Apr-2010	11-Apr-2013	3 years, 8 days
8^[3]	Devendra Fadnavis	11-Apr-2013	06-Jan-2015	1 year, 270 days
9^[4]	Raosaheb Danve	06-Jan-2015	16-Jul-2019	4 years, 191 days
10^[5]	Chandrakant Patil	16-Jul-2019	12-Aug-2022	3 years, 27 days
11^[6]	Chandrashekhar Bawankule	12-Aug-2022	present	2 years, 92 days

Party Vice Presidents

#	Portrait	Name	Term of Office
1		Dadarao Keche	01 November 2024	Present

References

^ "TROUBLED STATES". India Today.
^ "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.

[1] "TROUBLED STATES". India Today.

[2] "Sudhir Mungantiwar new Maharashtra BJP chief". The Hindu. 3 April 2010.

[3] "Devendra Fadnavis new BJP Maharashtra president". The Economic Times. 11 April 2013.

[4] "Union minister Danve named new Maharashtra BJP chief". The Indian Express. 6 January 2015.

[5] "Chandrakant Patil appointed BJP's Maharashtra chief". The Pioneer. 16 July 2019.

[6] "With polls in mind, BJP appoints Chandrashekhar Bawankule as new Maharashtra State President". The Hindu. 12 August 2022.

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