Bharatiya Janata Party, Andhra Pradesh

Indian political party

Political party in India

Bharatiya Janata Party, Andhra Pradesh

భారతీయ జనతా పార్టీ, ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్

Abbreviation| BJP
President| Daggubati Purandeswari[1]
Founder|

* Atal Bihari Vajpayee
* Lal Krishna Advani[2]

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| Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh \- 522003 [3]
Labour wing| Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh[4]
Peasant's wing| Bharatiya Kisan Sangh[5]
Colours|  Saffron
Alliance|

* National Democratic Alliance

Seats in Lok Sabha|

3 / 25

Seats in Rajya Sabha|

0 / 11

Seats in Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly|

8 / 175

Seats in Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council|

0 / 58

Election symbol
Lotus

Party flag
Website
andhra.bjp.org

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Bharatiya Janata Party, Andhra Pradesh or simply BJP Andhra Pradesh is the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The party's headquarters is located in Vijayawada.[6][7] Daggubati Purandeswari is currently appointed as the president of BJP Andhra Pradesh.

The party currently holds no seat in the Rajya Sabha but 3 seats in the Lok Sabha from the state, while it does not have any seats in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council and 8 seats in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly.

## Electoral performance

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### Lok Sabha Elections

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Year  | Seats won  | Voteshare (%)  | Outcome  | Floor leader

|
|
|
|

Janata Party
1977 |

1 / 42

| 32.33%  | Government  | Morarji Desai
1980 |

1 / 42

| 15.24%  | Others  | Jagjivan Ram
Bharatiya Janata Party
1984 |

1 / 42

| 2.21%  | Others  | C.Janga Reddy
1989 |

0 / 42

| 1.78%  | Opposition  | L. K. Advani
1991 |

1 / 42

| 9.27%  | Opposition  | L. K. Advani
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
1996 |

0 / 42

| 14.12%  | Opposition  | Atal Bihari Vajpayee
1998 |

4 / 42

| 18.12%  | Government  | Atal Bihari Vajpayee
1999 |

7 / 42

| 9.91%  | Government  | Atal Bihari Vajpayee
2004 |

0 / 42

| 8.41%  | Opposition  | L. K. Advani
2009 |

0 / 42

| 2.84%  | Opposition  | Sushma Swaraj
2014 |

2 / 25

| 4.13%  | Government  | Narendra Modi
2019 |

0 / 25

| 0.98%  | Government  | Narendra Modi
2024 |

3 / 25

| 11.28%  | Government  | Narendra Modi

### Legislative Assembly Elections

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Year  | Seats won  | Voteshare (%)  | Outcome  | Floor Leader

|
|
|
|

Bharatiya Jana Sangh \- United Andhra Pradesh
1967 |

3 / 287

| 2.11%  | Opposition  | C.Janga Reddy
1972 |

0 / 287

| 1.86%  | Lost  |
Janata Party
1978 |

60 / 294

| 28.85%  | Opposition  | Gouthu Latchanna
Bharatiya Janata Party
1983 |

3 / 294

| 2.76%  | Others  | M.Venkaiah Naidu
1985 |

8 / 294

| 1.32%  | Others  | C.Vidyasagar Rao
1989 |

5 / 294

| 1.78%  | Others  | C.Vidyasagar Rao
1994 |

3 / 294

| 3.89%  | Others  | C.Vidyasagar Rao
1999 |

12 / 294

| 3.67%  | Government  | N. Indrasena Reddy
K.Hari Babu
2004 |

2 / 294

| 2.63%  | Others  | G. Kishan Reddy
2009 |

2 / 294

| 2.84%  | Others  | G. Kishan Reddy
2014 |

4 / 175

| 4.13%  | Government  | P.Vishnukumar Raju
2019 |

0 / 175

| 0.84%  | Lost  |
2024 |

8 / 175

| 2.83%  | Government  | P.Vishnukumar Raju

## Leadership

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### President

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No  | Portrait  | Name  | Term of Office

|
|
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1  |  | P. V. Chalapathi Rao  | 1980  | 1986  | 6 years
2  |  | Bangaru Laxman | 1986  | 1988  | 2 years
3  |  | Venkaiah Naidu | 1988  | 1993  | 5 years
4  |  | V. Rama Rao | 1993  | 1997  | 4 years
5  |  | Bandaru Dattatreya | 1997  | 1998  | 1 year
6  |  | C. Vidyasagar Rao | 1998  | 1999  | 1 year
(4)  |  | V. Rama Rao | 1999  | 2001  | 2 years
7  |  | C.Ramachandra Reddy  | 2001  | 2003  | 2 years
8[8] |  | N. Indrasena Reddy | 3-Aug-2003  | 2007  | 4 years
(5)  |  | Bandaru Dattatreya | 2007  | 8-Mar-2010  | 3 years
9[9] |  | G. Kishan Reddy | 8-Mar-2010  | 2-Jun-2014  | 4 years, 86 days
10  |  | Kambhampati Hari Babu | 2-Jun-2014  | 13-May-2018  | 3 years, 345 days
11[10] |  | Kanna Lakshminarayana | 13-May-2018  | 28-Jul-2020  | 2 years, 76 days
12[11] |  | Somu Veerraju | 28-Jul-2020  | 4-Jul-2023  | 2 years, 341 days
13[12] |  | Daggubati Purandeswari | 4-Jul-2023  | incumbent | 1 year, 81 days

## See also

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* Bharatiya Janata Party
* National Democratic Alliance
* State units of the Bharatiya Janata Party

## References

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1. ^ https://andhra.bjp.org/state-office-bearers/[permanent dead link]
2. ^ "What you need to know about India's BJP". AlJazeera. 23 May 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
3. ^ https://www.bjp.org/andhra-pradesh-state-office
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. ^ https://andhra.bjp.org/state-office-bearers/[permanent dead link]
7. ^ "Leadership crisis a hurdle in BJP's Andhra Pradesh expansion plan". 2023-01-15. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
8. ^ "Indrasena Reddy to be Andhra BJP president". The Times of India. 2003-08-02.
9. ^ "Kishan Reddy elected as new AP BJP president". Haindava Keralam. 2010-03-08.
10. ^ "BJP appoints Kanna Lakshminarayana as the new Andhra Pradesh president". The New Indian Express. 2018-05-13.
11. ^ "Somu Veerraju appointed president of BJP's Andhra Pradesh unit". Hindustan Times. 2020-07-28.
12. ^ "BJP appoints Daggubati Purandeswari as A.P. unit president". The Hindu. 2023-07-04.