Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal

Indian political party

Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal

ভারতীয় জনতা পার্টি, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ

Abbreviation| BJP
Leader| Suvendu Adhikari
(Leader of Opposition)
President| Dr. Sukanta Majumdar
General Secretary| Amitava Chakroborty
Spokesperson| Samik Bhattacharya
Yuva Morcha president| Indranil Khan
Headquarters| 6, Muralidhar Sen Lane, College Square, Kolkata-700073, West Bengal
Newspaper| Kamal Barta
Student wing| ABVP
Youth wing| Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, West Bengal
Women's wing| BJP Mahila Morcha, West Bengal
Ideology| Conservatism[1]
Neoliberalism[2]
Right-wing populism[3]
Nationalism[4]
Hindutva[5]
Integral humanism[6]
Political position| Right-wing to far-right [7]
Religion| Hinduism[8]
Colours|  Saffron
Slogan| Sabka Sath Sabka Bikash Sabka Biswas Sabka Prayas
Alliance| National Democratic Alliance
Advocate| Koustav Bagchi
Seats in West Bengal Legislative Assembly|

67 / 294

Seats in Gorkhaland Territorial Administration|

0 / 50

Seats in Lok Sabha|

12 / 42

Seats in Rajya Sabha|

2 / 16

Election symbol
Party flag
Website
bjpbengal.org

* Politics of West Bengal
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Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal, is the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Indian state of West Bengal. The party's headquarters is located in Kolkata, the capital of the state. Sukanta Majumdar is currently appointed as the president of BJP West Bengal.

The party currently holds 2 seat in the Rajya Sabha and 12 seats in the Lok Sabha from the state. Furthermore, the party has 67 seats in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.

## History[edit]

Vote share in consecutive assembly elections

|  |
2021 |

| 38.14%
2016 |

| 10.16%
2011 |

| 6.52%
2006 |

| 1.93%
2001 |

| 5.19%
1996 |

| 6.45%
1991 |

| 11.34%
1987 |

| 0.51%
1982 |

| 0.58%

Vote share in consecutive Lok Sabha elections

|  |
2024 |

| 38.73%
2019 |

| 40.25%
2014 |

| 17.02%
2009 |

| 6.14%
2004 |

| 8.06%
1999 |

| 11.13%
1998 |

| 10.2%
1996 |

| 6.88%
1991 |

| 11.66%
1989 |

| 1.67%
1984 |

| 0.4%

### 1980s[edit]

The Bharatiya Janata Party contested the West Bengal assembly election for the first time in 1982.[9] The primary objective of the party was to create a nucleus for a future third force in West Bengal politics.[9] The party supported the call of the West Bengal government to hold the elections in March 1982.[10] The party contested on 52 assembly constituencies and got around 129,994 votes in the state.

In 1984 Lok Sabha election, BJP contested on 9 seats and got 101165 (0.4%) votes in West Bengal.[11]

In the 1987 the party contested on 57 constituencies and slightly increased its votes to 134,867.[12]

In 1989 Lok Sabha election, BJP contested on 19 seats and got 529618 (1.67%) votes in West Bengal.[13]

### 1990s[edit]

The Bharatiya Janata Party fielded 291 candidates across the state in 1991 Vidhan Sabha election, and managed to increase its share of votes from 0.51% in 1987 to 11.34% (3,513,121 votes).[14][9] This was the first time BJP fielded such a large number of candidates in West Bengal assembly elections.[9] The party also fielded 42 candidates for the 1991 Lok Sabha election which took place simultaneously with the Vidhan Sabha election. The BJP got 3624974 (11.66%) votes in this election. Rather than focusing primarily on the Ayodhya issue, which was highlighted in the BJP campaigns across the country, the West Bengal BJP campaign concentrated on agitations against immigration from Bangladesh.[15] The campaign sought to invoke Bengali memories of Partition.[15] Whilst support for BJP increased amongst Bengali communities, its main stronghold in the state remained non-Bengali populations in Calcutta (Marwaris and Gujaratis).[15]

In 1996, both Assembly election and Lok Sabha election took place simultaneously, the party contested on 292 assembly constituencies and got 2,372,480 (6.45%) votes[16] and contested 42 Lok Sabha seats and got 2525864 (6.88%) votes across the state.[17]

In 1998, the BJP contested on 14 seats and won 1 Lok Sabha seat for the first time in West Bengal from Dum Dum. It got 3724662 (10.2%) votes.[18] Tapan Sikdar, who was serving as the West Bengal State President of BJP, won the Dum Dum constituency with 631,383 (50.7%) votes defeating nearest rival Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee of the CPI (M).[19]

In 1999, the BJP in an alliance with All India Trinamool Congress contested 13 seats and won 2 Lok Sabha seats and got 3,928,424 votes (11.13).[20] The two elected Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha were Satyabrata Mookherjee from Krishnanagar with 43.82% votes and Tapan Sikdar from Dum Dum with 51.59% votes.[21]

### 2000s[edit]

In 2001 Assembly election, BJP contested on 266 constituencies and got 1901351 (5.19%) votes throughout the state and 5.68% in seats contested.[22]

In the 2004 Indian general election, the National Democratic Alliance was completely decimated by CPI (M) led Left Front and INC led United Progressive Alliance. The BJP didn't win a single seat and its ally All India Trinamool Congress was reduced to just 1 Lok Sabha seat.[23] The BJP however managed to get 2983950 (8.06%) votes.[24]

In the 2006 Assembly election, BJP entered into an alliance with the All India Trinamool Congress and contested on 29 constituencies. The BJP got 760236 (1.93%) votes throughout West Bengal and 19.89% on seats it contested.[25]

In 2009 Indian general election, BJP candidate Jaswant Singh, with support from Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, won the Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat getting a total of 4,97,649 (51.50%) votes. Across the state BJP got only 6.14% votes.[26]

### 2010s[edit]

In 2011 Legislative Assembly election the BJP allied with GJM.[27]

In 2014 Indian general election the BJP won only 2 seats. BJP candidates for the first time, returned runner-up in 3 seats and got 17.2% vote share throughout the state. This performance was better than BJP's previous best of 11.66% in 1991 elections. However the All India Trinamool Congress dominated the election winning 34 seats.[28]

In 2016 Assembly election the BJP in an alliance with GJM contested 291 seats and got 5,555,134 (10.16%) votes and created history by winning 3 assembly seats for the first time.[29]

There was a major political shift from the left to the right in the 2019 Lok Sabha election in West Bengal. The Bharatiya Janata Party, won 18 Lok Sabha seats out of the 42 constituencies with 23,028,343 (40.25%) votes. On 24 May 2019, The Statesman reported that BJP had made CPI-M a marginalised party and setting a strong challenge to the ruling Trinamool Congress.[30] The shift in the voting pattern was seen across the state.[31]

After the election the Government of India passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) in the Parliament, allowing a quicker route to citizenship to non Muslim immigrants from neighbouring countries. The party hoped to benefit from the votes of the Hindu immigrants from Bangladesh.[32][33]

### Post 2020[edit]

The BJP's Bengali booklet released in January 2020 claimed that the National Register of Citizens will be implemented to identify any undocumented migrants including Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims and non-Muslims by the Citizenship Amendment Act.[34][35]

## Electoral performance[edit]

### Legislative Assembly election[edit]

Year  | Seats won  | Change in seats  | Percentage of votes  | Vote swing  | Outcome

|
|
|
|
|

2016 |

3 / 294

|  3  | 10.16%  |  - | Opposition
2021 |

77 / 294

|  74  | 38.14%  |  27.98%  | Opposition

### Lok Sabha election[edit]

Year  | Seats won  | Change in seats

|
|

1998 |

1 / 42

1999 |

2 / 42

|  1
2004 |

0 / 42

|  2
2009 |

1 / 42

|  1
2014 |

2 / 42

|  1
2019 |

18 / 42

|  16
2024 |

12 / 42

|  6

## Leadership[edit]

The West Bengal BJP has one president, twelve vice presidents and five general secretaries & twelve secretaries.[36] As of September 2021, the President of the West Bengal state branch of the party is Dr. Sukanta Majumder.

Dilip Ghosh is most successful president.During his leadership party gain 18 MP in 2019 lok sabha election. And in 2021 Vidhan sabha election party gain 77 MLA.

### List of State Presidents[edit]

This article is about the chronological List of State Presidents of Bharatiya Janata Party for West Bengal. For List of All India Presidents, see List of presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

No.  | Name  | Term in office

|
|

1  | Prof. Haripada Bharati | 1980–1982
2  | Dr. Vishnukant Shastri | 1982–1986
3  | Sukumar Banerjee  | 1986–1991
4  | Tapan Sikdar | 1991–1995
(2)  | Dr. Vishnukant Shastri | 1995–1997
(4)  | Tapan Sikdar | 1997–1999
5  | Asim Ghosh  | 1999–2002
6  | Tathagata Roy | 2002–2006
(3)  | Sukumar Banerjee  | 2006–2008
7  | Satyabrata Mookherjee | 2008–2009
8  | Rahul Sinha  | 2009–2015
9  | Dilip Ghosh | 2015–2021
10  | Dr. Sukanta Majumder | 2021–Incumbent

### Elected members[edit]

#### Incumbent member(s) of Parliament[edit]

Further information: List of members of the 18th Lok Sabha

S.No  | Member of Parliament  | Constituency Name  | District(s)  | Term Start

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|
|

1\.  | Manoj Tigga | Alipurduar | Alipurduar, Cooch Behar
2\.  | Jayanta Kumar Roy | Jalpaiguri | Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar
3\.  | Raju Bista | Darjeeling | Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Uttar Dinajpur
4\.  | Kartick Paul | Raiganj | Uttar Dinajpur
5\.  | Sukanta Majumder | Balurghat | Dakshin Dinajpur, Uttar Dinajpur
6\.  | Khagen Murmu | Maldaha Uttar | Malda
7\.  | Jagannath Sarkar | Ranaghat | Nadia
8\.  | Shantanu Thakur | Bangaon | North 24 Parganas
9\.  | Abhijit Gangopadhyay | Tamluk | Purba Medinipur
10\.  | Soumendu Adhikari | Kanthi
11\.  | Jyotirmoy Mahato | Purulia | Purulia
12\.  | Saumitra Khan | Bishnupur | Bankura, Purba Bardhaman

#### Incumbent member(s) of Legislative Assembly[edit]

S.NO  | Constituency  | MLA  | Present Party  | Remarks

|
|
|
|

#  | Name
Cooch Behar District
01\.  | 2  | Mathabhanga | Sushil Barman |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
02\.  | 3  | Cooch Behar Uttar | Sukumar Roy |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
03\.  | 4  | Cooch Behar Dakshin | Nikhil Ranjan Dey |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
04\.  | 5  | Sitalkuchi | Baren Chandra Barman |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
05\.  | 8  | Natabari | Mihir Goswami |  | Bharatiya Janata Party | Deputy Leader of Opposition
06\.  | 9  | Tufanganj | Malati Rava Roy |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Alipurduar District
07\.  | 10  | Kumargram | Manoj Kumar Oraon |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
08\.  | 11  | Kalchini | Bishal Lama |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
09\.  | 13  | Falakata | Dipak Barman |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
10\.  | 14  | Madarihat | Manoj Tigga |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Jalpaiguri District
11\.  | 15  | Dhupguri | Bishnu Pada Ray  |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
12\.  | 16  | Maynaguri | Kaushik Roy |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
13\.  | 19  | Dabgram-Phulbari | Sikha Chatterjee |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
14\.  | 21  | Nagrakata | Puna Bhengra |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Darjeeling District
15\.  | 23  | Darjeeling | Neeraj Zimba |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
16\.  | 24  | Kurseong | Bishnu Prasad Sharma |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
17\.  | 25  | Matigara-Naxalbari | Anandamoy Barman |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
18\.  | 26  | Siliguri | Shankar Ghosh |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
19\.  | 27  | Phansidewa | Durga Murmu |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Dakshin Dinajpur District
20\.  | 39  | Balurghat | Ashok Lahiri |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
21\.  | 40  | Tapan | Budhrai Tudu |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
22\.  | 41  | Gangarampur | Satyendra Nath Ray |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Malda District
23\.  | 43  | Habibpur | Joyel Murmu |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
24\.  | 44  | Gazole | Chinmoy Deb Barman |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
25\.  | 50  | Maldaha | Gopal Chandra Saha |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
26\.  | 51  | English Bazar | Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Murshidabad District
27\.  | 64  | Murshidabad | Gouri Shankar Ghosh |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
28\.  | 72  | Baharampur | Subrata Maitra  |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Nadia District
29\.  | 87  | Ranaghat Uttar Paschim | Parthasarathi Chatterjee |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
30\.  | 88  | Krishnaganj | Ashis Kumar Biswas |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
31\.  | 89  | Ranaghat Uttar Purba | Ashim Biswas |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
32\.  | 90  | Ranaghat Dakshin | Mukut Mani Adhikari |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
33\.  | 91  | Chakdaha | Bankim Chandra Ghosh |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
34\.  | 92  | Kalyani | Ambika Roy |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
35\.  | 93  | Haringhata | Asim Kumar Sarkar |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
North 24 Parganas District
36\.  | 95  | Bangaon Uttar | Ashok Kirtania |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
37\.  | 96  | Bangaon Dakshin | Swapan Majumder |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
38\.  | 97  | Gaighata | Subrata Thakur |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
39\.  | 105  | Bhatpara | Pawan Singh |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Hooghly District
40\.  | 199  | Pursurah | Biman Ghosh |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
41\.  | 200  | Arambagh | Madhusudan Bag |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
42\.  | 201  | Goghat | Biswanath Karak |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
43\.  | 202  | Khanakul | Susanta Ghosh |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Purba Medinipur District
44\.  | 206  | Moyna | Ashoke Dinda |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
45\.  | 209  | Haldia | Tapasi Mondal |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
46\.  | 210  | Nandigram | Suvendu Adhikari |  | Bharatiya Janata Party | Leader of Opposition
47\.  | 213  | Kanthi Uttar | Sumita Sinha |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
48\.  | 214  | Bhagabanpur | Rabindranath Maity |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
49\.  | 215  | Khejuri | Santanu Pramanik |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
50\.  | 216  | Kanthi Dakshin | Arup Kumar Das |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Paschim Medinipur District
51\.  | 224  | Kharagpur Sadar | Hiran Chatterjee |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
52\.  | 231  | Ghatal | Sital Kapat |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Purulia District
53\.  | 239  | Balarampur | Baneswar Mahato |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
54\.  | 241  | Joypur | Narahari Mahato |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
55\.  | 242  | Purulia | Sudip Kumar Mukherjee |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
56\.  | 244  | Kashipur | Kamalakanta Hansda |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
57\.  | 245  | Para | Nadiar Chand Bouri |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
58\.  | 246  | Raghunathpur | Vivekananda Bauri |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Bankura District
59\.  | 247  | Saltora | Chandana Bauri |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
60\.  | 248  | Chhatna | Satyanarayan Mukhopadhyay |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
61\.  | 252  | Bankura | Niladri Sekhar Dana |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
62\.  | 254  | Onda | Amarnath Shakha |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
63\.  | 255  | Bishnupur | Tanmay Ghosh |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
64\.  | 256  | Katulpur | Harakali Protiher |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
65\.  | 257  | Indas | Nirmal Kumar Dhara |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
66\.  | 258  | Sonamukhi | Dibakar Gharami |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Paschim Bardhaman District
67\.  | 277  | Durgapur Paschim | Lakshman Chandra Ghorui |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
68\.  | 280  | Asansol Dakshin | Agnimitra Paul |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
69\.  | 282  | Kulti | Ajay Kumar Poddar |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Birbhum District
70\.  | 284  | Dubrajpur | Anup Kumar Saha  |  | Bharatiya Janata Party |

### List of opposition leaders[edit]

No  | Portrait  | Name  | Term of Office  | Assembly  | Chief Minister

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|
|
|
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1  |  | Suvendu Adhikari | 10 May 2021  | Incumbent | 3 years, 41 days  | 17th | Mamata Banerjee

## See also[edit]

* Bharatiya Janata Party, Gujarat
* Bharatiya Janata Party, Uttar Pradesh
* Bharatiya Janata Party, Madhya Pradesh
* Bharatiya Janata Party, Bihar
* Bharatiya Janata Party, Chhattisgarh
* Bharatiya Janata Party, Odisha
* State units of the Bharatiya Janata Party
* Communist Party of India (Marxist), West Bengal
* West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee

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## External links[edit]

* Official website
* Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal on X
* Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal on Facebook