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The Bharatiya Janata Party, or simply, BJP Jammu and Kashmir (BJP; [bʱaːɾət̪iːjə dʒənət̪aː paːrtiː] ; lit. 'Indian People's Party'), is the unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party of the Union Territory, Jammu and Kashmir. Its head office is situated at Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookherjee Bhawan, Sector - 3 Extension, Trikuta Nagar, Jammu - 180 012, Jammu and Kashmir.[9] The current president of BJP, Jammu and Kashmir is Sat Paul Sharma[1]
भारतीय जनता पार्टी, जम्मू कश्मीर | |
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| Abbreviation | BJP |
| President | Sat Paul Sharma[1] |
| Founder | |
| Founded | 6 April 1980 |
| Split from | Janata Party |
| Preceded by |
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| Headquarters | Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookherjee Bhawan, Sector - 3 Extension, Trikuta Nagar, Jammu - 180 012 Jammu and Kashmir[3] |
| Newspaper | Kamal Sandesh |
| Youth wing | Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha |
| Women's wing | BJP Mahila Morcha |
| Labour wing | Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh[4] |
| Peasant's wing | Bharatiya Kisan Sangh[5] |
| Ideology | |
| International affiliation | |
| Colours | Saffron |
| Alliance | |
| Seats in Lok Sabha | 2 / 5 (as of 2024)
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| Seats in Rajya Sabha | 0 / 4 (as of 2024)
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| Seats in Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly | 29 / 90 (as of 2024)
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| Seats in Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council | 0 / 36 (as of 2024)
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| Election symbol | |
Lotus | |
| Party flag | |
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| Website | |
| jkbjp | |
| Year | Seats won | +/- | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 0 / 6 |
new | Opposition |
| 1989 | 0 / 6 |
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Opposition |
| 1991 | Election not held because of insurgency until 1996 | Opposition | |
| 1996 | 1 / 6 |
 1 |
Government, later Opposition |
| 1998 | 2 / 6 |
1 |
Government |
| 1999 | 2 / 6 |
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| 2004 | 0 / 6 |
 2 |
Opposition |
| 2009 | 0 / 6 |
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| 2014 | 3 / 6 |
3 |
Government |
| 2019 | 3 / 6 |
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| After Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir | |||
| 2024 | 2 / 5 |
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Government |
| Name | Photo | Date of appointment | Date of retirement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shamsheer Singh Manhas | 11/2/2015 | 10/2/2021 |
| Year | Seats won | +/- | Voteshare (%) | +/- (%) | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 0 / 76 | New | 3.19% | New | opposition |
| 1987 | 2 / 76 | 2 | 5.10% | 1.91% | |
| 1996 | 8 / 87 | 6 | 12.13% | 7.03% | |
| 2002 | 1 / 87 | 7 | 8.57% | 3.56% | |
| 2008 | 11 / 87 | 10 | 12.45% | 3.88% | |
| 2014 | 25 / 87 | 14 | 23.0% | 10.55% | Coalition Government with PDP |
| After Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir | |||||
| 2024 | 29 / 90 | 4 | 25.64% | 2.64% | opposition |
| No | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term | Assembly | Chief minister | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  |
Nirmal Kumar Singh | Billawar | 4 April 2016 | 29 April 2018 | 2 years, 25 days | 12th | Mehbooba Mufti |
| 2 |  |
Kavinder Gupta | Gandhinagar | 30 April 2018 | 19 June 2018 | 50 days | ||
| No | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term | Assembly | Chief minister | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sunil Kumar Sharma | Padder–Nagseni | 3 November 2024 | Incumbent | 4 days | 13th | Omar Abdullah | |
| S.No. | Constituency | Portrait | Name | Win Margin in 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Name | ||||
| 01. | 4 | Udhampur |  |
Jitendra Singh | 1,24,373 |
| 02. | 5 | Jammu |  |
Jugal Kishore Sharma | 1,35,498 |
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