Bharatiya Janata Party, Odisha (or BJP Odisha) (BJP; [bʱaːɾət̪iːjə dʒənət̪aː paːrtiː] ⓘ; lit. 'Indian People's Party'), is the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Odisha. Its head office is situated at the 4R-3/2, Unit-3, Janpath, Bhubaneswar-751 001 Odisha. The current President of BJP Odisha is Manmohan Samal.[5]

Electoral performance

Lok Sabha Election

Year Seats won +/- Outcome
1998
7 / 21
  – Government
1999
9 / 21
 Increase 2
2004
7 / 21
 Decrease 2 Opposition
2009
0 / 21
 Decrease 7
2014
1 / 21
 Increase 1 Government
2019
8 / 21
 Increase 7
2024
20 / 21
 Increase 12

Legislative Assembly Election

Year Seats contested Seats won +/- Voteshare (%) +/- (%) Outcome
1985 67
1 / 147
  – 2.60% New Opposition
1990 63
2 / 147
 Increase 1 3.56% Increase 0.96
1995 144
9 / 147
 Increase 7 7.88% Increase 4.32
2000 63
38 / 147
 Increase 29 18.20% Increase 10.32 Government
2004 63
32 / 147
 Decrease 6 17.11% Decrease 2.06
2009 147
6 / 147
 Decrease 26 15.05% Decrease 1.09 Opposition
2014 147
10 / 147
 Increase 4 18.0% Increase 2.95
2019 146
23 / 147
 Increase 13 32.5% Increase 14.5
2024 147
78 / 147
 Increase 55 40.07% Increase 7.57 Government

Leadership

Chief minister

No Portrait Name Constituency Term of office Assembly
1 Mohan Charan Majhi Keonjhar 12 June 2024 Incumbent 267 days 17th

Deputy chief minister

No Portrait Name Constituency Term Assembly Chief Minister
1 Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo Patnagarh 12 June 2024 Incumbent 267 days 17th Mohan Charan Majhi
2 Pravati Parida Nimapara

Opposition leaders in Legislative Assembly

Main article: List of leaders of the opposition in the Odisha Legislative Assembly
No Portrait Name Constituency Term Assembly Chief Minister
1 Pradipta Kumar Naik Bhawanipatna 25 June 2019 30 July 2022 3 years, 35 days 16th Naveen Patnaik
2 Jayanarayan Mishra Sambalpur 30 July 2022 4 June 2024 1 year, 310 days

President

No Portrait Name[6] Term
1 Biswabhusan Harichandan 1980 1988 8 years
2 Debendra Pradhan 1988 1993 5 years
3 Bimbadhar Kuanr 1993 1996 3 years
(2) Debendra Pradhan 1996 1997 1 year
4 Jual Oram 1997 1999 2 years
5 Manmohan Samal 1999 2004 5 years
(4) Jual Oram 2004 2006 2 years
6[7] Suresh Pujari 7-Nov-2006 2009 3 years
(4) Jual Oram 2009 2013 4 years
7[8] Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo 10-Mar-2013 14-Jan-2016 2 years, 310 days
8[9] Basanta Kumar Panda 14-Jan-2016 16-Jan-2020 4 years, 2 days
9[10] Samir Mohanty 16-Jan-2020 23-Mar-2023 3 years, 66 days
(5) Manmohan Samal 24-Mar-2023 Present 1 year, 347 days

See also

References

  1. ^ "What you need to know about India's BJP". AlJazeera. 23 May 2019. Archived from the original on 13 May 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  2. ^ State Office Archived 9 November 2023 at the Wayback Machine bjp.org
  3. ^ Pragya Singh (15 January 2008). "Need to Know BJP-led BMS is biggest labour union in India". live mint. Archived from the original on 3 November 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  4. ^ 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. Archived from the original on 14 April 2023. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
  5. ^ State Office Bearers odisha.bjp.org
  6. ^ "State Presidents". Archived from the original on 6 March 2023.
  7. ^ "Suresh Pujari new president of Orissa BJP". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 11 February 2023.
  8. ^ "KV Singhdeo new president of Odisha BJP". Zee News. 10 March 2013. Archived from the original on 11 February 2023.
  9. ^ "Basant Panda appointed new Orissa BJP president". The Economic Times. Archived from the original on 11 February 2023.
  10. ^ "Samir Mohanty elected Odisha BJP president". India Today. Archived from the original on 4 February 2023.
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