List of Presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party - wikipedia List of Presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party This is a List of Presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party, one of two major parties in the Indian political system. Contents 1 List of party presidents 2 See also 3 Notes and references 4 External links List of party presidents No. Year Name Note Ref. 1980 -- 86 Atal Bihari Vajpayee 1986 -- 91 L.K. Advani First term 1991 -- 93 Murli Manohar Joshi ( 2 ) 1993 -- 98 L.K. Advani Second term 1998 -- 2000 Kushabhau Thakre 2000 -- 01 Bangaru Laxman 6 2001 -- 02 Jana Krishnamurthi 7 2002 -- 04 Venkaiah Naidu ( 2 ) 2004 -- 06 L.K. Advani Third term 8 2006 -- 09 Rajnath Singh First term 9 2009 -- 13 Nitin Gadkari ( 7 ) 2013 -- 14 Rajnath Singh Second term 10 2014 -- present Amit Shah See also List of Presidents of the Indian National Congress Notes and references References ^ Jump up to : India Today 2013. Jump up ^ Patrika 2014. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party. `` BJP Presidents from 1980 to 2013 ''. India Today. Retrieved 17 July 2014. `` Amit Shah elected new BJP president ''. Patrika Group. 9 July 2014. Archived from the original on 12 July 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2014. Bharatiya Janata Party Party Presidents Atal Bihari Vajpayee ( 1980 -- 86 ) Lal Krishna Advani ( 1986 -- 91 ) Murli Manohar Joshi ( 1991 -- 93 ) Lal Krishna Advani ( 1993 -- 98 ) Kushabhau Thakre ( 1998 -- 2000 ) Bangaru Laxman ( 2000 -- 01 ) Jana Krishnamurthi ( 2001 -- 02 ) Venkaiah Naidu ( 2002 -- 04 ) Lal Krishna Advani ( 2004 -- 06 ) Rajnath Singh ( 2006 -- 09 ) Nitin Gadkari ( 2009 -- 13 ) Rajnath Singh ( 2013 -- 14 ) Amit Shah ( 2014 -- present ) Current vice presidents Avinash Rai Khanna Prabhat Jha Dr. Vinay Sahasrabuddhe Renu Devi Om Prakash Mathur Shyam Jaju Other prominent leaders Sushma Swaraj Arun Jaitley Bhairon Singh Shekhawat Sunderlal Patwa Ravi Shankar Prasad Pramod Mahajan Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Sushil Kumar Modi Himanta Biswa Sarma Ram Naik Prime ministers Atal Bihari Vajpayee Narendra Modi Current chief ministers Vijay Rupani Vasundhara Raje Shivraj Singh Chouhan Raman Singh Manohar Parrikar Jai Ram Thakur Manohar Lal Khattar Devendra Fadnavis Raghubar Das Sarbananda Sonowal Pema Khandu N. Biren Singh Trivendra Singh Rawat Yogi Adityanath Spokespersons Syed Shahnawaz Hussain Dr. Sudhanshu Trivedi M.J. Akbar Meenakshi Lekhi Dr. Bizay Sonkar Shastri Siddharth Nath Singh Nalin Kohli Sambit Patra Anil Baluni G.V.L. Narsimha Rao Gopal Krishna Agarwal Siddhartha Bhattacharya Gaurav Bhatia Shaina NC Nupur Sharma General secretaries P. Muralidhar Rao Ram Madhav Saroj Pandey Bhupender Yadav Kailash Vijayvargiya Anil Jain Dr. Arun Singh Ram Lal Political wings Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha BJP Mahila Morcha BJP SC Morcha BJP ST Morcha BJP OBC Morcha BJP Minority Morcha BJP Kisan Morcha Related organisations Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Bharatiya Jana Sangh Janata Party Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh Bharatiya Kisan Sangh Others Hindutva Integral humanism Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Presidents_of_the_Bharatiya_Janata_Party&oldid=817224336 '' Categories : Presidents of Bharatiya Janata Party Indian political party presidents Talk Contents About Wikipedia हिन्दी Edit links This page was last edited on 27 December 2017, at 00 : 45. About Wikipedia

Question: who became the first president of the bhartiya janta party
Answer: Atal Bihari Vajpayee