Bharatiya Janata Party – Bihar

Bharatiya Janata Party – Bihar

भारतीय जनता पार्टी– बिहार
Bharatiya Janata Party – Bihar भारतीय जनता पार्टी– बिहार
Leader	Samrat Choudhary; (Chief Minister)
President	Sanjay Saraogi
General Secretary	Bhikhubhai Dalsaniya; (Organisation)
Founder	Atal Bihari Vajpayee; Lal Krishna Advani; Murli Manohar Joshi; Nanaji Deshmukh; K. R. Malkani; Sikandar Bakht; Vijay Kumar Malhotra; Vijaya Raje Scindia; Bhairon Singh Shekhawat; Shanta Kumar; Ram Jethmalani; Jagannathrao Joshi;
Founded	6 April 1980; (46 years ago)
Headquarters	8, Veerchand Patel Path, Patna, Bihar
Colours	Saffron
Seats in Rajya Sabha	7 / 16
Seats in Lok Sabha	12 / 40
Seats in Bihar Legislative Council	24 / 75
Seats in Bihar Legislative Assembly	89 / 243
Election symbol
	Lotus;
Party flag
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Bharatiya Janata Party – Bihar (BJP Bihar) is a state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar. Sanjay Saraogi the current president of the BJP Bihar.^[8]^[9] Ramdeo Mahto was founding leader of BJP in Bihar.

General SecretaryBhikhubhai Dalsaniya
(Organisation)

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Year	Seats won	+/-	Outcome
1980	0 / 54		Opposition
1984	0 / 54		Opposition
1989	8 / 54	8	Outside support to JD
1991	5 / 54	3	Opposition
1996	18 / 54	13	Government, later Opposition
1998	19 / 54	1	Government
1999	23 / 54	4	Government
2004	5 / 40	18	Opposition
2009	12 / 40	7	Opposition
2014	22 / 40	10	Government
2019	17 / 40	5	Government
2024	12 / 40	5	Government

Year	Seats		+/-	Voteshare (%)	+/- (%)	Outcome
Year	Won	Contested	+/-	Voteshare (%)	+/- (%)	Outcome
1980	21 / 324	246	21	8.41%	8.41%	Opposition
1985	16 / 324	234	5	7.54%	0.87%	Opposition
1990	39 / 324	237	23	11.61%	4.07%	Outside support to JD
1995	41 / 324	315	2	12.96%	1.35%	Opposition
2000	67 / 324	168	26	14.64%	1.68%	Opposition
2005	37 / 243	103	30	10.97%	3.67%
2005	55 / 243	102	18	15.65%	4.68%	Government
2010	91 / 243	102	36	16.49%	0.84%	Government, later Opposition
2015	53 / 243	157	38	24.42%	7.93%	Opposition, later Government
2020	74 / 243	110	21	19.46%	4.96%	Government
2025	89 / 243	101	15	20.08%	0.62%	Government

#	Name	Constituency	Term of office			Assembly	Chief Minister
1	Sushil Kumar Modi	MLC	24 November 2005	26 November 2010	10 years, 316 days	14th	Nitish Kumar
			26 November 2010	16 June 2013		15th
			27 July 2017	16 November 2020		16th
2	Tarkishore Prasad	Katihar	16 November 2020	9 August 2022	1 year, 266 days	17th
2	Renu Devi	Bettiah	16 November 2020	9 August 2022	1 year, 266 days
3	Samrat Choudhary	Tarapur	28 January 2024	15 April 2026	2 years, 77 days
3	Vijay Kumar Sinha	Lakhisarai	28 January 2024	15 April 2026	2 years, 77 days

#	Name	Constituency	Term of office			Assembly	Chief Minister
1	Yashwant Sinha	Ranchi	17 April 1995	24 January 1996	282 days	11th	Lalu Prasad Yadav
2	Sushil Kumar Modi	Patna Central	19 March 1996	1 March 2000	8 years, 9 days	11th	Rabri Devi
2	Sushil Kumar Modi	Patna Central	15 March 2000	28 March 2004	8 years, 9 days	12th	Rabri Devi
3	Nand Kishore Yadav	Patna Sahib	19 June 2013	4 December 2015	2 years, 168 days	15th	Nitish Kumar
4	Prem Kumar	Gaya Town	4 December 2015	28 July 2017	1 year, 236 days	16th
5	Vijay Sinha	Lakhisarai	24 August 2022	28 January 2024	1 year, 157 days	17th

#	Name	Constituency	Term of office			Chief Minister
1	Ganga Prasad Chaurasia	elected by MLA's	20 November 2000	5 March 2005	4 years, 105 days	Rabri Devi
2	Sushil Kumar Modi	elected by MLA's	19 June 2013	27 July 2017	4 years, 38 days	Nitish Kumar
3	Samrat Choudhary	elected by MLA's	24 August 2022	20 August 2023	361 days
4	Hari Sahni	elected by MLA's	20 August 2023	28 January 2024	161 days

Electoral history

Bharatiya Janata Party – Bihar भारतीय जनता पार्टी– बिहार

Leader	Samrat Choudhary (Chief Minister)
President	Sanjay Saraogi
General Secretary	Bhikhubhai Dalsaniya (Organisation)
Founder	Atal Bihari Vajpayee Lal Krishna Advani^[1] Murli Manohar Joshi^[2] Nanaji Deshmukh^[3] K. R. Malkani^[4] Sikandar Bakht^[5] Vijay Kumar Malhotra Vijaya Raje Scindia^[6] Bhairon Singh Shekhawat^[7] Shanta Kumar Ram Jethmalani Jagannathrao Joshi
Founded	6 April 1980 (46 years ago) (1980-04-06)
Headquarters	8, Veerchand Patel Path, Patna, Bihar
Colours	Saffron
Seats in Rajya Sabha	7 / 16
Seats in Lok Sabha	12 / 40
Seats in Bihar Legislative Council	24 / 75
Seats in Bihar Legislative Assembly	89 / 243
Election symbol
Lotus
Party flag

Politics of India Political parties Elections

#	Name^[10]	Term of office
1	Kailashpati Mishra	1980	1982	2 years
2	Jagadambi Prasad Yadav	1982	1984	2 years
(1)	Kailashpati Mishra	1984	1988	4 years
3	Inder Singh Namdhari	1988	1990	2 years
4	Tarakant Jha	1990	1993	3 years
5	Ashwani Kumar	1994	1996	2 years
6	Yashwant Sinha	1997	1998	1 year
7	Nand Kishore Yadav	1998	2003	5 years
8^[11]	Gopal Narayan Singh	16-Oct-2003	31-May-2005	1 year, 227 days
9^[12]	Sushil Kumar Modi	31-May-2005	15-Oct-2006	1 year, 137 days
10^[13]	Radha Mohan Singh	15-Oct-2006	24-Apr-2010	3 years, 191 days
11^[14]	C. P. Thakur	24-Apr-2010	18-Jan-2013	2 years, 269 days
12^[15]	Mangal Pandey	18-Jan-2013	30-Nov-2016	3 years, 317 days
13^[16]	Nityanand Rai	30-Nov-2016	14-Sep-2019	2 years, 288 days
14^[17]	Sanjay Jaiswal	14-Sep-2019	24-Mar-2023	3 years, 191 days
15^[18]	Samrat Choudhary	24-Mar-2023	26-Jul-2024	1 year, 124 days
16^[19]	Dilip Kumar Jaiswal	26-Jul-2024	15-Dec-2025	1 year, 283 days
17^[20]	Sanjay Saraogi	15-Dec-2025	present	141 days