# Bharatiya Janata Party, Assam

The Bharatiya Janata Party, or simply, BJP Assam (BJP; ; lit. 'Indian People's Party'), 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 leadership of Sarbananda Sonowal from there it is still a ruling party at Assam and had 2 Chief Ministers till date Sarbananda Sonowal from 2016 to 2021 and Himanta Biswa Sarma from 2021–present.

## List of Presidents
### Convenor & Co-Convenor

| Nos. | Post | Name | | Term |
| 1. | Convenor | Lakheshwar Gohain | Member of Assam Legislative Assembly from Barhampur(1978-1983) | 1980-1981 |
| 2. | Co-Convenor | | 4 timesMember of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Silchar. Union Minister of State in Third Vajpayee ministry. | 1980-1981 |

### List of Presidents

| No. | Name | | Term |
| 1. | Colonel Umanath Sharma | | |
| 2. | Lakheswar Gohain | Member of Assam Legislative Assembly from Barhampur(1978-1983) | |
| 3. | Sakreshwar Saikia | | |
| 4. | Dr. Jogeshwar Mahanta | | |
| 5. | Prabin Baruah | BJP Candidate in 1985 Assam Legislative Assembly election from Sootea Assembly constituency. | |
| 6. | Indramoni Bora | Member of Parliament Rajya Sabha for 1 time from Assam. | |
| 7. | Narayan Chandra Borkataky | Member of Parliament for 1 time from Mangaldoi Lok Sabha constituency. | |
| 8. | Rajen Gohain | Union Minister of State for Railways in First Modi ministry.Member of Parliament for 4 times from Nowgong Lok Sabha constituency | |
| (6.) | Indramoni Bora | Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha for 1 time from Assam. | |
| 9. | Ramen Deka | Member of Parliament for 2 times from Mangaldoi Lok Sabha constituency.Governor of Chhattisgarh | |
| 10. | Ranjit Dutta | Cabinet Minister in Sonowal ministry from 2016-2021 and Member of Assam Legislative Assembly from Behali Assembly constituency and Member of Parliament to Lok Sabha from Sonitpur Lok Sabha constituency | |
| 11. | Sarbananda Sonowal | Chief Minister of Assam from 2016-2021, Union Cabinet Minister in First Modi ministry & Second Modi ministry.Member of Parliament for 3 times from Dibrugarh & Lakhimpur.Member of Assam Legislative Assembly for 2 times from Majuli & Moran.Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha | |
| 12. | Siddhartha Bhattacharya | Cabinet Minister of Assam in Sonowal ministry & MLA from | 17 August 2014 – 21 November 2015 |
| (11.) | Sarbananda Sonowal | Chief Minister of Assam from 2016-2021, Union Cabinet Minister in First Modi ministry & Second Modi ministry.Member of Parliament for 3 times from Dibrugarh & Lakhimpur.Member of Assam Legislative Assembly for 2 times from Majuli & Moran.Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha | 21 November 2015 – 25 December 2016 |
| 13. | Ranjeet Kumar Dass | Member of Assam Legislative Assembly from Sorbhog(2011-2021) &Patacharkuchi(2021-2026).Speaker of Assam Legislative Assembly & Cabinet Minister in Sarma ministry. | 25 December 2016 – 26 June 2021 |
| 14. | Bhabesh Kalita | Member of Assam Legislative Assembly from Rangiya Assembly constituency(2016-2026).Minister of State in Sonowal ministry. | 26 June 2021 – 17 January 2025 |
| 15. | Dilip Saikia | Member of Parliament to Lok Sabha from Mangaldoi & Darrang–Udalguri Constituencies | 17 January 2025 Incumbent |

## Electoral performance
### Lok Sabha Election

| Year | Seats won | +/- | Outcome |
| 1991 | 2 / 14 | – | Opposition |
| 1996 | 1 / 14 | 1 | Government, later Opposition |
| 1998 | 1 / 14 | – | Government |
| 1999 | 2 / 14 | 1 | Government |
| 2004 | 2 / 14 | – | Opposition |
| 2009 | 5 / 14 | 3 | Opposition |
| 2014 | 7 / 14 | 2 | Government |
| 2019 | 9 / 14 | 2 | Government |
| 2024 | 9 / 14 | – | Government |

### Legislative Assembly Election

| Year | Seats won | +/- | Voteshare (%) | +/- (%) | Outcome |
| 1991 | 10 / 126 | New | 6.55% | New | Opposition |
| 1996 | 4 / 126 | 6 | 10.41% | 3.86% | Opposition |
| 2001 | 8 / 126 | 4 | 9.35% | 1.06% | Opposition |
| 2006 | 10 / 126 | 2 | 11.98% | 2.63% | Opposition |
| 2011 | 5 / 126 | 5 | 11.47% | 0.51% | Opposition |
| 2016 | 60 / 126 | 55 | 29.5% | 18.03% | Government |
| 2021 | 60 / 126 | | 33.21% | 3.70% | Government |

### In local elections
#### Municipal corporation election results

| Year | Municipal Corporation | Seats contested | Seats won | Change in seats | Percentage of votes |
| Assam |||||||
| 2013 | Guwahati | 60 | 11 / 60 | 11 | |
| 2022 | Guwahati | 60 | 52 / 60 | 41 | 59.31% |

#### Autonomous District Council election

| Year | Autonomous District Council | Seats contested | Seats won | Change in seats | Government |
| Bodoland ||||||||
| 2015 | Bodoland | 40 | 1 / 40 | 1 | Allied government with BPF |
| 2020 | Bodoland | 26 | 9 / 40 | 8 | Allied government with UPPL |
| Haflong ||||||||
| 2019 | North Cachar Hills | 28 | 19 / 28 | | Government. |
| 2024 | Dima Hasao | 28 | 25 / 28 | 6 | Government. |
| Diphu ||||||||
| 2017 | Karbi Anglong | 26 | 24 / 26 | | Government. |
| 2022 | Karbi Anglong | 26 | 26 / 26 | 2 | Government. |
| Morigaon ||||||||
| 2020 | Tiwa | | 33 / 36 | | Government with AGP. |
| Dhemaji ||||||||
| 2019 | Mising | | 5 / 34 | | Government with Sammilita Gana Shakti. |
| Dudhnoi ||||||||
| 2019 | Rabha Hasong | | 34 / 36 | | BJP+RHJMC Government. |
| Dibrugarh ||||||||
| 2019 | Sonowal Kachari | | 20 / 26 | | Government. |
| Titabar ||||||||
| 2022 | Thengal Kachari | | 14 / 22 | | Government with AGP. |
| Narayanpur ||||||||
| 2022 | Deori | | 11 / 22 | | Government with AGP. |

## Leadership
### Chief ministers

| No. | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term of office | Term of office | Term of office | Assembly |
| 1 | | Sarbananda Sonowal | Majuli | 24 May 2016 | 10 May 2021 | 4 years, 351 days | 14th |
| 2 | | Himanta Biswa Sarma | Jalukbari | 10 May 2021 | Incumbent | 3 years, 307 days | 15th |

### Lok Sabha members

| Year | No | Name | Constituency | Votes |
| 2024 Indian general election | 1 | Pradan Baruah | Lakhimpur | |
| 2024 Indian general election | 2 | Bijuli Kalita Medhi | Guwahati | |
| 2024 Indian general election | 3 | Amarsing Tisso | Diphu | |
| 2024 Indian general election | 4 | Kripanath Mallah | Karimganj | |
| 2024 Indian general election | 5 | Parimal Suklabaidya | Silchar | |
| 2024 Indian general election | 6 | Dilip Saikia | Darrang | |
| 2024 Indian general election | 7 | Kamakhya Prasad Tasa | Kaziranga | |
| 2024 Indian general election | 8 | Sarbananda Sonowal | Dibrugarh | |
| 2024 Indian general election | 9 | Ranjit Dutta | Sonitpur | |
| 2019 Indian general electionRanjeet Kumar Dass, President | 1 | Kripanath Mallah | Karimganj | 4,73,046 |
| 2019 Indian general electionRanjeet Kumar Dass, President | 2 | Rajdeep Roy | Silchar | 4,99,414 |
| 2019 Indian general electionRanjeet Kumar Dass, President | 3 | Horen Sing Bey | Autonomous District | 3,81,316 |
| 2019 Indian general electionRanjeet Kumar Dass, President | 4 | Queen Oja | Gauhati | 10,08,936 |
| 2019 Indian general electionRanjeet Kumar Dass, President | 5 | Dilip Saikia | Mangaldoi | 7,35,469 |
| 2019 Indian general electionRanjeet Kumar Dass, President | 6 | Pallab Lochan Das | Tezpur | 6,84,166 |
| 2019 Indian general electionRanjeet Kumar Dass, President | 7 | Topon Kumar Gogoi | Jorhat | 5,43,288 |
| 2019 Indian general electionRanjeet Kumar Dass, President | 8 | Rameshwar Teli | Dibrugarh | 6,59,583 |
| 2019 Indian general electionRanjeet Kumar Dass, President | 9 | Pradan Baruah | Lakhimpur | 7,76,406 |
| 2014 Indian general election | 1 | Ram Prasad Sharma | Tezpur | |
| 2014 Indian general election | 2 | Bijoya Chakravarty | Guwahati | |
| 2014 Indian general election | 3 | Rajen Gohain | Nowgong | |
| 2014 Indian general election | 4 | Sarbananda Sonowal | Lakhimpur | |
| 2014 Indian general election | By-election (4) | Pradan Baruah | Lakhimpur | |
| 2014 Indian general election | 5 | Kamakhya Prasad Tasa | Jorhat | |
| 2014 Indian general election | 6 | Ramen Deka | Mangaldoi | |
| 2014 Indian general election | 7 | Rameswar Teli | Dibrugarh | |
| 2009 Indian general election | 1 | Ramen Deka | Mangaldoi | |
| 2009 Indian general election | 2 | Rajen Gohain | Nowgong | |
| 2009 Indian general election | 3 | Bijoya Chakravarty | Guwahati | |
| 2009 Indian general election | 4 | Kabindra Purkayastha | Silchar | |
| 2004 Indian general election Indramoni Bora, President | 1 | Rajen Gohain | Nowgong | |
| 2004 Indian general election Indramoni Bora, President | 2 | Narayan Chandra Borkataky | Mangaldoi | |
| 1999 Indian general election | 1 | Bijoya Chakravarty | Guwahati | |
| 1999 Indian general election | 2 | Rajen Gohain | Nowgong | |
| 1998 Indian general election | 1 | Kabindra Purkayastha | Silchar | |
| 1996 Indian general election Indramoni Bora, President | 1 | Dwaraka Nath Das | Karimganj | |
| 1991 Indian general election Prabin Baruah, President | 1 | Kabindra Purkayastha | Silchar | |
| 1991 Indian general election Prabin Baruah, President | 2 | Dwaraka Nath Das | Karimganj | |

### Rajya Sabha members

| No | Name | Party | Date of Appointment | Date of Retirement |
| 1. | Indramoni Bora | | 2001 | 2007 |
| 2. | Kamakhya Prasad Tasa | | 15-Jun-2019 | 9 June 2024 |
| 3. | Bhubaneswar Kalita | Bharatiya Janata Party | 10-Apr-2020 | 09-Apr-2026 |
| 4. | Biswajit Daimary | Bharatiya Janata Party | 23 February 2021 | 2- May- 2021 |
| 5. | Sarbananda Sonowal | Bharatiya Janata Party | 6-Oct-2021 | 9 June 2024 |
| 6. | Pabitra Margherita | Bharatiya Janata Party | 2-Apr-2022 | 2-Apr-2028 |
| 7. | Rameswar Teli | | 20 August 2024 | 09-Apr-2026 |
| 8. | Mission Ranjan Das | | 20 August 2024 | 14-June-2025 |