The BJP's origins lie in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, popularly known as the Jana Sangh, founded by Syama Prasad Mukherjee in 1951 in response to the politics of the dominant Congress party. It was founded in collaboration with the Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and was widely regarded as the political arm of the RSS. The Jana Sangh's aims included the protection of India's "Hindu" cultural identity, in addition to countering what it perceived to be the appeasement of Muslim people and the country of Pakistan by the Congress party and then-Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. The RSS loaned several of its leading "pracharaks", or full-time workers, to the Jana Sangh to get the new party off the ground.
Bharatiya Jana Sangh (1951–77)
Bharatiya Janata Party
Bharatiya Janata Party | Bharatiya Jana Sangh (1951–77)
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Bhairon Singh Shekhawat of Rajasthan was the first chief minister from the BJP; however some BJP leaders had already been elected before as the chief minister while being a member of the Janata Party (JP), an amalgam of political parties which included BJP's predecessor Bharatiya Jana Sangh. There have been five chief ministers from the BJP in Gujarat and Uttarakhand each, four chief ministers in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh each, and three in Delhi, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Karnataka each.
List of chief ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party | Introduction
S. Yediyurappa in Karnataka, Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Madhya Pradesh, N. Biren Singh in Manipur, Biplab Kumar Deb in Tripura, Trivendra Singh Rawat in Uttarakhand, and Yogi Adityanath in Uttar Pradesh. Four of the BJP chief ministers have been women — Sushma Swaraj in Delhi, Uma Bharti in Madhya Pradesh, Anandiben Patel in Gujarat and Vasundhara Raje in Rajasthan. Raman Singh, who was chief minister of Chhattisgarh for 15 years and 9 days between December 2003 and December 2018 has been the longest-serving chief minister from the BJP. Devendra Fadnavis's second tenure as the chief minister of Maharashtra lasted for only three days, which is the least tenure among chief ministers from BJP; however, taking the total of all the tenures into consideration, Sushma Swaraj served as a chief minister of Delhi for the shortest period of 52 days.
List of chief ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party | Introduction
In the year 2002, he resigned from the position of Chief Minister of U.P. within the time of 2 years because at that time during the ground test, the BJP Government was at minority status. Because of the following reason there was imposition of President's rule in the State, then after that in the 14th Legislative Assembly, Mayawati became the Chief Minister for the 3rd time.
Rajnath Singh | Resignation
According to the Constitution of India, at the state-level, the governor is "de jure" head, but "de facto" executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the state legislative assembly, the governor usually invites the party (or coalition) with a majority of seats to form the government. The governor appoints the chief minister, whose council of ministers are collectively responsible to the assembly. Given he/she has the assembly's confidence, the chief minister's term is usually for a maximum of five years; there are no limits to the number of terms he/she can serve. Of the 43 BJP chief ministers, twelve are incumbent — Pema Khandu in Arunachal Pradesh, Sarbananda Sonowal in Assam, Pramod Sawant in Goa, Vijay Rupani in Gujarat, Manohar Lal Khattar in Haryana, Jai Ram Thakur in Himachal Pradesh, B.
List of chief ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party | Introduction
Opposition leader Sushil Kumar Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party called Manjhi a "dummy chief minister", to which Manjhi responded by saying he was "not a rubber stamp." But after taking oath on 20 May 2014, Manjhi stated that he would "continue to seek guidance from Nitish Kumar." Due to the breakup of the JDU from the BJP-led NDA and the desertion of some JDU MLAs, CM Manjhi's government faced instability and appeared unlikely to pass the trust vote in the state legislative assembly. However, Lalu Prasad Yadav's RJD and Sonia Gandhi's Congress party provided outside support to Manjhi because he belongs to a backward caste.
Jitan Ram Manjhi | As Chief Minister
In 1979, Desai and Vajpayee resigned, triggering the collapse of the Janata Party. The erstwhile members of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh came together to form the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 1980, with Vajpayee as its first President. The 1984 general elections were held in the wake of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination by her Sikh bodyguards. While he had won the 1977 and the 1980 elections from New Delhi, Vajpayee shifted to his home town Gwalior for the election. Vidya Razdan was initially tipped to be the Congress (I) candidate. Instead, Madhavrao Scindia, scion of the Gwalior royal family, was brought in on the last day of filing nominations.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee | Janata and the BJP (1975–1995)
The Left Front government was defeated after 25 years of office out in 2018 election, with the Bharatiya Janata Party winning majority of seats and Biplab Kumar Deb becoming the first Chief Minister of Tripura from the Bharatiya Janata Party.
List of chief ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party | Tripura
As of March 2020, 43 people from Bharatiya Janata Party have held the position of a chief minister, 12 of whom are incumbent.
Bharatiya Janata Party | List of Chief Ministers
In the 2004 general election, the NDA suffered an unexpected defeat, and for the next ten years the BJP was the principal opposition party. Long time Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi led it to a landslide victory in the 2014 general election. Since that election, Modi leads the NDA government as Prime Minister and , the BJP and its alliance governs 16 states.
Conservatism in India | Bharatiya Jana Sangh and Bharatiya Janata Party
After ten months, the party asked him to resign to make way for Nitish Kumar to return as the Chief Minister. He refused and was expelled from the party for refusing on 9 February 2015, resulting in a political crisis in the state. The governor asked Manjhi to seek a vote of confidence on 20 February 2015, the first day of budget session of assembly. BJP announced it would support Manjhi but Manjhi was short of numbers he needed to prove the majority. On 20 February 2015, Manjhi resigned from the post of chief minister in morning before vote. He told that the legislators who supported him were threatened with death and the speaker of assembly did not allow a secret ballot so he chose to resign.
Jitan Ram Manjhi | As Chief Minister
He floated his own party, named Rashtriya Janata Party and became Chief Minister with Congress Party's support in October 1996. He won bye-poll to Gujarat Assembly from Radhanpur seat in early 1997. But he had to resign as Chief Minister during ongoing political turmoil in Gujarat in October 1997, and his fellow-rebel ex-BJP MLA Dilip Parikh became CM with Vaghela's reluctant blessings. Even Parikh's government did not last long and fresh elections for Gujarat Vidhan Sabha had to be called in 1998. Vaghela did not contest these elections. He merged his new party with Congress. BJP came back to power with thumping majority in Gujarat in 1998 and Keshubhai Patel became CM again.
Shankersinh Vaghela | Rashtriya Janata Party and Chief Minister
Ram Prakash Gupta (26 October 1923 – 1 May 2004) was Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and Governor of Madhya Pradesh. He was a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party, as well as its predecessor party, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh. A post-graduate in science from Allahabad University, he was a member of the erstwhile Bharatiya Jana Sangh. He represented the Bharatiya Jana Sangh in the Vidhan Parishad and was chosen to be Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh when Charan Singh formed the first non-Congress government in 1967 which was also known as Samyukta Vidhayak Dal government.
Ram Prakash Gupta | Introduction
1. Syama Prasad Mookerjee (1951–52) 2. Mauli Chandra Sharma (1954) 3. Prem Nath Dogra (1955) 4. Debaprasad Ghosh (1956–59) 5. Pitambar Das (1960) 6. Avasarala Rama Rao (1961) 4. Debaprasad Ghosh (1962) 7. Raghu Vira (1963) 8. Debaprasad Ghosh (1964) 4. Bachhraj Vyas (1965) 9. Balraj Madhok (1966) 10. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya (1967–68) 11. Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1968–72) 12. Lal Krishna Advani (1973–77)
Bharatiya Jana Sangh | Chronological list of presidents
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is one of the two major parties in the political system of the Republic of India, the other being the Indian National Congress (INC). , it is the country's largest political party in terms of representation in the national parliament. Established in 1980, the BJP's platform is generally considered as the right-wing of the political spectrum. , 43 BJP leaders have held the position of a chief minister, out of which twelve are incumbent. A chief minister is the head of government of each of the twenty-eight states and three union territories (UTs) (Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir and Puducherry).
List of chief ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party | Introduction
Venkaiah Naidu, Nitin Gadkari, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Ananth Kumar, Thawar Chand Gehlot, Ram Lal, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh and Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar. Further sub-committees were made headed by senior party leaders. In September 2013, BJP announced Modi as their prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. A fortnight after he was anointed as BJP's prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi on Sunday relinquished the post of election campaign committee chief to which party president Rajnath Singh was appointed.
Bharatiya Janata Party campaign for the 2014 Indian general election | Leadership
V. P. Singh, who was the head of the Janata Dal, was chosen leader of the National Front government. His government fell after Singh, along with Bihar's Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav's government, had Advani arrested in Samastipur and stopped his Ram Rath Yatra, which was going to the Babri Masjid site in Ayodhya on 23 October 1990. Bharatiya Janata Party withdrew their support to Singh government, causing them to lose parliamentary vote of confidence on 7 November 1990.
1989 Indian general election | V. P. Singh as Prime Minister
In 1980, Janata Party disintegrated fully. The old Jan Sangh again reunited as the Bharatiya Janata Party in Mumbai with the lotus as its symbol. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was chosen as the National President and Nanasaheb was chosen as the President of Maharashtra BJP. In the same year, Nanasaheb declared his retirement from active electoral politics and vowed to work for the party only. In 1984, he handed over the presidency to the young Gopinath Munde and declared that in future neither would he contest elections nor would he hold party positions. He will be just 'a party worker' henceforth.
Uttamrao Patil | Retirement from electoral politics (1980-1989)
On ten occasions, most recently in 2002, the state has come under President's rule, leaving the office of chief minister vacant. Yogi Adityanath of the Bharatiya Janata Party has served as the incumbent chief minister since 19 March 2017.
List of chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh | Introduction
Babubhai Jashbhai Patel (1911-2002) was the chief minister of Gujarat state in India. He held the office twice, first time from June 1975 to March 1976 as the leader of Janata Morcha and the second time from April 1977 to February 1980 as leader of Janata Party.
Babubhai J. Patel | Introduction
Devendra Fadnavis the leader of Bharatiya Janata Party was sworn in the Chief Minister of Maharashtra in November 2019. Here is the list of the ministers of his ministry. The ruling right-wing National Democratic Alliance (NDA) of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena (SHS) won a majority. Following differences over the government formation, the alliance was dissolved precipitating the political crisis. Since general Election did not result in a council of ministers. President's rule had been imposed in Maharashtra after none of the 4 largest parties could manage to form the government. On 23 November 2019, in the early hours, the President's rule was revoked and BJP's Devendra Fadnavis took oath as the Chief Minister for the second consecutive term while NCP's parliamentary party leader Ajit Pawar took oath as the Deputy Chief Minister.
Second Devendra Fadnavis ministry | Introduction
He served as the Member of Parliament for Lucknow, retiring from active politics in 2009 due to health concerns. He was among the founding members of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), of which he was president from 1968 to 1972. The BJS merged with several other parties to form the Janata Party, which won the 1977 general election. In March 1977, Vajpayee became the Minister of External Affairs in the cabinet of Prime Minister Morarji Desai. He resigned in 1979, and the Janata alliance collapsed soon after. Former members of the BJS formed the BJP in 1980, with Vajpayee its first president.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee | Introduction
C.P.Thakur. Deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi, several MPs and legislators of the BJP and the JD-U were also present. Several top leaders of BJP including former deputy prime minister L.K.Advani, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, Jharkhand chief minister Arjun Munda, party's leader in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley, its national general secretary Ananth Kumar and chief national spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad flew in the state capital especially to pay floral tributes to the departed leaders who played a leading role in the expansion of Jan Sangh and B.J.P. in several states, including Bihar and Jharkhand.
Kailashpati Mishra | Homage
On 17 July 1973, he replaced Ghanshyam Oza as the Chief minister of Gujarat. He served in that office till 9 February 1974. Chimanbhai Patel was forced out of office in the 1974 by the Nav Nirman movement on charges of corruption. After being expelled from the party, he helped in the formation of Janata Morcha government in the leadership of Babubhai J Patel. He again became the chief minister on 4 March 1990 heading Janata Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition government. On breaking of the coalition on 25 October 1990, he managed to retain his post with the help of 34 legislatures of Indian National Congress (INC).
Chimanbhai Patel | Chief Minister
He became the first non-Congress Chief Minister of Maharashtra when the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) coalition came to power.
Manohar Joshi | Chief Minister
In the general election of 1989, the National Front—with outside support from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Left Front—came to power. V. P. Singh was elected prime minister. During a tenure of less than a year, Singh and his government accepted the Mandal Commission's recommendations. Singh's tenure came to an end after he ordered the arrest of BJP member Lal Krishna Advani, as a result, BJP withdrew its outside support to the government, V. P. Singh lost the subsequent vote-of-no-confidence 146–320 and had to resign. After V. P. Singh's resignation, Chandra Shekhar along with 64 members of parliament (MPs) floated the Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya), and proved a majority in the Lok Sabha with support from Congress.
Prime Minister of India | 1984–1999
Jana Sangh had been formed on the eve of the first General Elections of 1951-52. The party won only 3 seats in the Lok Sabha, including that of Mookerjee. Sharma contested for the Lok Sabha seat from Outer Delhi, but lost. He secured 74,077 votes or 16 percent of the votes cast. When Mookerjee died in June 1953, Sharma was appointed as the Acting President of the Jana Sangh. By this time, Deendayal Upadhyaya, another RSS pracharak from Uttar Pradesh was the General Secretary of the party, and had firm control of its RSS faction, enjoying the full confidence of the RSS chief M.
Mauli Chandra Sharma | Bharatiya Jana Sangh
V. Narasimha Rao in June 1991. Rao's five-year term was succeeded by four short-lived governments—Atal Bihari Vajpayee from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for 13 days in 1996, a year each under United Front prime ministers H. D. Deve Gowda and Inder Kumar Gujral, and Vajpayee again for 19 months in 1998–99. After Vajpayee was sworn-in for the third time, in 1999, he managed to lead his National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government to a full five-year term, the first non-Congress alliance to do so. Vajpayee was succeeded by Manmohan Singh, whose United Progressive Alliance government was in office for 10 years between 2004 and 2014.
List of prime ministers of India | Introduction
K. Jana Krishnamurthi (24 May 1928 – 25 September 2007) was an Indian political leader who rose to be the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2001. A former Union Law Minister and a member of the Parliament of India, Krishnamurthi was the second person from Tamil Nadu to head a national party in India after Kamaraj.
Jana Krishnamurthi | Introduction
This is a list of minister from Raman Singh's third cabinet starting from December 9, 2013. Raman Singh is the leader of Bharatiya Janata Party was sworn in the Chief Ministers of Chhattisgarh in December 2003. Here is the list of the ministers of his ministry.
Third Raman Singh ministry | Introduction
In 2002, following a fluid post-election situation in Uttar Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party and Bahujan Samaj Party joined to form a government under Dalit leader Mayawati, who was considered to be Yadav's greatest political rival in the state. The BJP pulled out of the government on 25 August 2003, and enough rebel legislators of the Bahujan Samaj Party left to allow Yadav to become the Chief Minister, with the support of independents and small parties. He was sworn in as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh for the third time in September 2003. It is widely believed that this change was done with the blessings of the BJP, which was also ruling at the Centre then.
Mulayam Singh Yadav | Third term
This is a list of minister from Uma Bharti cabinets starting from December 2003. Uma Bharti is the leader of Bharatiya Janata Party was sworn in the Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh in December 2003. Here is the list of the ministers of his ministry.
Uma Bharti ministry | Introduction
Many party legislators expressed a preference for Vaghela as their leader. However, the BJP leadership installed Keshubhai Patel as the Chief Minister,and the support for Vaghela was gradually eroded. Narendra Modi is said to have thrown his weight behind Keshubhai Patel in preference to Vaghela, and was held responsible for the ensuing events by Vaghela.
Shankersinh Vaghela | Janata Party and Bharatiya Janata Party
In 1988, he formed the Janata Dal party by merging various factions of the Janata Party. In the 1989 elections, the National Front, with the support of the BJP, formed the government and Singh became the 7th Prime Minister of India. During his tenure as prime minister, he implemented the Mandal Commission report for India's backward castes. Following his opposition to the Ram Rath Yatra, the BJP withdrew its support for the National Front, and his government lost the vote of no-confidence. Singh resigned on 7 November 1990. His prime ministerial tenure lasted for 343 days.
Vishwanath Pratap Singh | Introduction
He was Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh twice, from 20 January 1980 to 17 February 1980 as member of Janata Party and from 5 March 1990 to 15 December 1992 as leader of Bharatiya Janta Party. He began his political career with Jana Sangh which merged with Janata Party in 1977. Later members owing allegiance to Jana Sangh's Hindutva ideology broke away from Janata Party in 1980 to form Bharatiya Janata Party. He was first elected to Lok Sabha via bye-poll in Chhindwara in 1997 by defeating Congress strongman Kamal Nath in his home turf. He lost from Chhindwara in 1998 General Election.
Sunder Lal Patwa | Political career
Prominent among these was Deendayal Upadhyaya, who was appointed General Secretary. The Jana Sangh won only three Lok Sabha seats in the first general elections in 1952. It maintained a minor presence in parliament until 1967. The Jana Sangh's first major campaign, begun in early 1953, centred on a demand for the complete integration of Jammu and Kashmir into India. Mookerjee was arrested in May 1953 for violating orders from the state government restraining him from entering Kashmir. He died of a heart attack the following month, while still in jail. Mauli Chandra Sharma was elected to succeed Mookerjee; however, he was forced out of power by the RSS activists within the party, and the leadership went instead to Upadhyaya.
Bharatiya Janata Party | Bharatiya Jana Sangh (1951–77)
Mangal Sein ( 1927- 1990) was a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party from Haryana and the deputy chief minister of Haryana from 1977 to 1979. He was elected to Haryana Legislative Assembly from Rohtak for seven times. He served as President of state unit of BJP an earlier of Jan Sangh.
Mangal Sein | Introduction
With the exceptions of Manohar Joshi (Shiv Sena), Narayan Rane (Shiv Sena), Devendra Fadnavis (Bharatiya Janata Party) and Uddhav Thackeray (Shiv Sena), all other CMs have been from the Congress or its breakaway parties. So far, President's rule has been imposed thrice in the state: first from February to June 1980 and again from September to October 2014. It was again imposed on 12 November 2019 The current incumbent is Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray of the Shiv Sena since 28 November 2019.
List of chief ministers of Maharashtra | Introduction
The President usually does not also hold a post within a government, and party chiefs have resigned the position to assume posts in Cabinet. After the party's foundation in 1980, Atal Bihari Vajpayee became its first president. He later became the Prime Minister of India, the only BJP President to serve in that position to date. In 1986, Lal Krishna Advani was sworn in as the party president and has been the longest serving president over three different periods. A total of 11 people have served as the president of the BJP, including Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah who have also served two terms.
List of presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party | Introduction
This is a list of minister from Babulal Gaur cabinets starting from August 2004. Babulal Gaur is the leader of Bharatiya Janata Party was sworn in the Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh in December 2003. Here is the list of the ministers of his ministry.
Babulal Gaur ministry | Introduction
Both Charan Singh and Jagjivan Ram were accorded the title of deputy prime minister. Charan Singh became the Minister of Home Affairs, the second-most important position in the Council of Ministers, while Jagjivan Ram took charge of the Ministry of Defence. BJS leaders Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani were respectively given charge of the Ministry of External Affairs and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Raj Narain was appointed Minister of Health, Madhu Dandavate was to head the Ministry of Railways and trade unionist George Fernandes was made the Minister of Communications. Jurist Shanti Bhushan was appointed Minister of Law and Justice.
Janata Party | Government formation
The current incumbent is Jai Ram Thakur of the Bharatiya Janata Party having been sworn in on 27 December 2017.
List of chief ministers of Himachal Pradesh | Introduction
Eight people have served as the state's chief minister since its formation on 9 November 2000. Five of them, including the inaugural officeholder Nityanand Swami and the incumbent Trivendra Singh Rawat represented the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) while the rest represented the Indian National Congress (INC).
List of chief ministers of Uttarakhand | Introduction
Morarji Desai became the Prime Minister of India, Advani became the Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Vajpayee became the Foreign Minister. The erstwhile members of the Jana Sangh quit the Janata Party and formed the new Bharatiya Janata Party. Advani became a prominent leader of the newly founded BJP and represented the party in the Rajya Sabha (upper house of the Indian Parliament) from Madhya Pradesh for two terms beginning in 1982.
L. K. Advani | Janata Party to Bharatiya Janata Party
Nanasaheb became the Leader of Opposition in the assembly. There was soon a deflection in the congress coalition government and Sharad Pawar broke away from the Congress party to form a coalition government with the Janata Party in 1978. Though Janata Party had more than thrice the legislature members than Sharad Pawar's fragment, still Pawar became the Chief Minister of the new Progressive Democratic Alliance. Nanasaheb was given a revenue and rehabilitation portfolio. He occupied 'Varsha' bungalow as his official residence. This government was short-lived and summarily dismissed in February 1980, following Indira Gandhi's return to power in Delhi.
Uttamrao Patil | Revenue Minister of Maharastra State and Member of Legislative Assembly (1978-1980)
He later joined Bharatiya Janata Party after the dissolution of Jan Sangh. He represented Himayatnagar assembly constituency thrice in 1983, 1994 and 1997. He was a strong support to the public and true leader. He was a ticket conductor in Road Transport Corporation, By his early age he was RSS acolyte and with all the public support he turned out to be a leader of that time. He won as MP from Medak in 1999 and 2004 from Medak Lok Sabha constituency. He was the state minister of Rural Development in UPA I.
Aelay Narendra | BJP
He served six months as the 9th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, from June 1977 to January 1978 as a member of Janata Party. He was MLA for eight consecutive terms from 1962 to 1998 from Bagli constituency of Madhya Pradrsh Legislative Assembly as a member of Jana Sangh, briefly Janata Party, and finally BJP. He was BJP's losing candidate from Rajgarh (Lok Sabha constituency) in February 1998. Later that year, he lost the assembly election from his stronghold of Bagli. He served as member of the Rajya Sabha from 2000 to 2004. He was a member of the Lok Sabha from 2004 to 2014, representing the Bhopal constituency in Madhya Pradesh, as a member of BJP.
Kailash Chandra Joshi | Career
He defeated senior Congress leader Shankar Dayal Sharma by a margin of 109,000 votes, and later Shankar Dayal Sharma became the President of India. He was also elected a Member of Parliament from Betul Lok Sabha of Madhya Pradesh state in the 1989 Lok Sabha election, when he defeated Congress candidate Aslam Sher Khan. He has been a member of the Bharatiya Jan Sangh and a founding member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, has been the National Vice President of the BJP Chief Executive, as well as has held many important positions. He has the distinction of being the founder National President of the Bharatiya Janata Party Minority Front.
Arif Beg | Introduction
At present, the office of Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir is vacant. Of the thirty incumbents, one is a woman—Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal. Serving since March 2000 (for ), Odisha's Naveen Patnaik has the longest incumbency. Amarinder Singh (b. 1942) of Punjab is the oldest chief minister while Arunachal Pradesh's Pema Khandu (b. 1979) is the youngest. Twelve incumbents belong to the Bharatiya Janata Party and four to the Indian National Congress; no other party has more than one chief minister in office.
List of current Indian chief ministers | Introduction
He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He served as the cabinet minister when Keshubhai Patel formed the government in the 1995 assembly elections. Patel resigned in October 1995 following revolt of his colleague Shankersinh Vaghela and consequently, Mehta was sworn in as the Chief Minister in October 1995 and he served till September 1996. However, BJP was split as the Rashtriya Janata Party which was formed by Vaghela. Mehta resigned from post of the CM and the President's rule was imposed. He again served as the industry cabinet minister under Patel when the BJP returned to the power in the 1998 assembly elections.
Suresh Mehta | Political career
When the Janata Party won the Lok Sabha elections in 1977, its MPs authorized Congress elders Jayaprakash Narayan and Acharya Kripalani to choose the Prime Minister. Morarji Desai was chosen and he named Singh Home Minister. Singh was asked to resign in June 1978 following disagreements with Desai, but was brought back to the cabinet as Deputy Prime Minister in January 1979. The truce did not last long, and a mutiny reduced the government to a minority. Charan Singh was sworn in as Prime Minister on 28 July 1979, with outside support from Indira Gandhi's Congress (I) party and with Yeshwantrao Chavan of the Congress (Socialist) party as his Deputy Prime Minister.
Charan Singh | Prime Ministership
Serving as the Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, he quit the party in 2016 before joining the Bharatiya Janata Party. In 2017, he retained his seat from Heingang again and was named the Chief Minister after his party gained Coalition and formed the government.
N. Biren Singh | Introduction
After the 2018 assembly elections, BJP emerged as the single largest party with 104 seats, followed by the INC with 78 seats and JD(S) with 37 seats. INC extended the support to JD(S) to form the government. Governor Vajubhai Vala invited BJP to form the government and B. S. Yeddyurappa was sworn in as the Chief Minister. But B. S. Yeddyurappa could not prove the majority of his government and resigned after 2 days of being sworn in. After that, H. D. Kumaraswamy of the JD(S) was sworn in as the Chief Minister, with the support of INC, BSP, KPJP and IND MLA.
Second H. D. Kumaraswamy ministry | Tenure of the Government
Jagadambi Prasad Yadav was a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and a minister of state Health and Family Welfare from 1977 to 1979 and then minister of state Commerce and Industry in the Morarji Desai Government of India. He was elected to Lok Sabha from Godda in Jharkhand. At the time of his death in 2002, he was Convenor of the Parliamentary Committee on Official Languages. He was President of Bharatiya Jana Sangh in Bihar as well as Bihar Bharatiya Janata Party from 1981–84.
Jagadambi Prasad Yadav | Introduction
Upadhyay remained the General Secretary until 1967, and worked to build a committed grassroots organisation in the image of the RSS. The party minimised engagement with the public, focusing instead on building its network of propagandists. Upadhyaya also articulated the philosophy of integral humanism, which formed the official doctrine of the party. Younger leaders, such as Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani also became involved with the leadership in this period, with Vajpayee succeeding Upadhyaya as president in 1968. The major themes on the party's agenda during this period were legislating a uniform civil code, banning cow slaughter and abolishing the special status given to Jammu and Kashmir.
Bharatiya Janata Party | Bharatiya Jana Sangh (1951–77)
This is a list of minister from Arjun Munda cabinets starting from 12 March 2005 – 8 September 2006. Arjun Munda is the leader of Bharatiya Janata Party was sworn in the Chief Ministers of Jharkhand in 12 March 2005. Here is the list of the ministers of his ministry. Arjun Munda along with five Independent MLAs, took oath of office on 12 March and on 29 March, two ministers from Bharatiya Janata Party, two minister from Janata Dal (United) and one from minister from Nationalist Congress Party who switched over to the Bharatiya Janata Party before swearing in.
Second Arjun Munda ministry | Introduction
M. Seervai. The faction of the Janata Party supporting Desai continued to have the support of 205 MPs as opposed to Charan Singh's 80 MPs. Reddy used presidential discretion in choosing Charan Singh as the next Prime Minister over a contending claim from Jagjivan Ram, the leader of the Janata Party.
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | Morarji Desai government (1977–79)
Earlier in 1983, he was elected as a BJP MLA from Mangalore assembly constituency comfortably defeating sitting MLA from Congress, P. F. Rodrigues, even before he became an MP. Being a staunch loyalist of former Chief Minister of Karnataka B. S. Yeddyurappa, he was elected as the president of the new Karnataka Janata Party. He was the Special representative of the Government of Karnataka to the Union Government in New Delhi.
V. Dhananjay Kumar | Introduction
Hashu Advani (1926–1995) was a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party and its earlier incarnation of Jana Sangh. He was born in Hyderabad, Sindh. Later he migrated to Mumbai. He was a cabinet minister in Government of Maharashtra in 1995. He was elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Chembur constituency in 1967 (Jana Sangh), 1978 (Janata Party), and later as BJP member in 1980, 1990, 1995. He served as State Minister for Urban Development from 1978 to 1980 and as Minister for Finance and Planning from March 1995 until his death in office later in the same year.
Hashu Advani | Introduction
Jai Ram Thakur, the leader of BJP was sworn in as the chief minister of Himachal Pradesh on 27 December 2017. Here is the list of ministers in his Cabinet.
Jai Ram Thakur ministry | Introduction
Six people have served as the state's chief minister since Jharkhand's formation on 15 November 2000. Half of them, including the inaugural officeholder Babulal Marandi, represented the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). His successor Arjun Munda, also from the BJP, is the longest-serving chief minister; he served for over five years, across three terms but never completed a full term. Two chief ministers, Shibu Soren and his son Hemant Soren, represented the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM). Shibu Soren's first term ended in just ten days, as he could not prove that he had the support of a majority of the house and was forced to resign.
List of chief ministers of Jharkhand | Introduction
Shettar was the Leader of Opposition when S.M. Krishna was the Chief minister and effectively discharged his duties. In 2005, he was appointed as the State President of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Later, he went on to become the Revenue Minister in the Janata Dal (Secular)-BJP coalition government headed by HD Kumaraswamy in 2006.
Jagadish Shettar | Political career
On 17 May 2014, Kumar resigned, taking responsibility for his party's poor performance in the 2014 general elections, and was succeeded by Jitan Ram Manjhi. However, he returned to office in February 2015 following a political crisis in Bihar and won the state elections of November 2015. He was elected as the national president of his party on 10 April 2016. He resigned again on 26 July 2017 as Chief Minister of Bihar due to differences with the coalition partner, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), following the naming of Tejashwi Yadav, the Deputy Chief Minister and RJD member, in a First Information Report alleging corruption filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
Nitish Kumar | Introduction
In 1977 election to Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Janata Party won 352 out of total 425 seats. The leader of the Uttar Pradesh Janata legislative party was chosen through election. Ram Naresh Yadav secured 277 votes and became the leader. He was sworn in as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh on 23 June 1977. Here are the names of ministers in his ministry:
Ram Naresh Yadav ministry | Introduction
After emergency in 1977 he became MLA from Chhabra as Janata Party candidate. In that year the Janata Party won 151 of the 200 seats in the state assembly elections of Rajasthan and Shekhawat took over as the first non Congress Chief Minister of Rajasthan in 1977. His government was dismissed by Indira Gandhi in 1980.
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat | Janata Party
Syama Prasad Mukherjee (6 July 1901 – 23 June 1953) was an Indian politician, barrister and academician, who served as the Minister for Industry and Supply in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet. After falling out with Nehru, protesting against the Nehru-Liaquat Pact, Mukherjee resigned from Nehru's cabinet. With the help of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, he founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the predecessor to the Bharatiya Janata Party, in 1951. He was also the president of Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha from 1943 to 1946.. He died in the custody of Jammu and Kashmir Police in 1953. He was provisionally diagnosed of a heart attack and shifted to a hospital but died a day later.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee | Introduction
After the 1996 elections, Janata Dal, Samajwadi Party, DMK, TDP, AGP, All India Indira Congress (Tiwari), Left Front (4 parties), Tamil Maanila Congress, National Conference, and Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party formed a 13 party United Front. H. D. Deve Gowda became the prime minister after both V. P. Singh and Jyoti Basu declined to become PM. He was later succeeded by I. K. Gujral. Both governments were supported from outside by the Indian National Congress under Sitaram Kesri.
National Front (India) | Introduction
Since 1952 Delhi has had seven chief ministers, starting with the Indian National Congress party's Chaudhary Brahm Prakash. Shortly after his term ended, the office of Chief Minister of Delhi was abolished for 37 years until December 1993, when the Bharatiya Janata Party's Madan Lal Khurana was sworn in. In 1998 Sheila Dikshit's first of three successive terms began, keeping her in office as chief minister for 15 years, the longest by an Indian woman.
List of chief ministers of Delhi | Introduction
He has served as the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the state of Orissa for over four years. He served as leader of opposition party from BJP side in Odisha legislative assembly
Jual Oram | Introduction
Jagdish Prasad Mathur (9 November 1921–20 October 2007) was an Indian politician and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was born in 1921 in Bijnor district of the present-day Uttar Pradesh state and was associated with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh since 1942. He became a member of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh in 1952. A two-time member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament from 3 April 1978 to 2 April 1984 and from 3 April 1990 to 2 April 1996, Mathur was also the deputy leader of the BJP parliamentary party in the Rajya Sabha in 1993 and chief whip in 1990.
Jagdish Prasad Mathur | Introduction
During his tenure as a minister in the Janata Party, he continued to be uncomfortable with certain elements of the broad-based Janata coalition, especially with the leaders of the erstwhile Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Jan Sangh in the Union Cabinet. In a debate preceding a vote of confidence two years into the government's tenure in 1979, he vehemently spoke out against the practice of permitting members to retain connections to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) while being in the ministry in the Janata Party. The leaders of the Bharatiya Jan Sangh, among them Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani, refused to give up their allegiance with the RSS, leading to a split within the Janata Party.
George Fernandes | Party memberships and railway ministry
Narayan Rane was sworn in as Chief Minister of Maharashtra state of India on 1 February 1999 as the leader of Shiv Sena- Bharatiya Janata Party alliance. He was elected as leader of the alliance following resignation of Manohar Joshi. There were 24 cabinet ministers (excluding himself) - 12 each from Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party.
Narayan Rane ministry | Introduction
He became the National Spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party in June 1996. He was appointed finance minister in March 1998. He was appointed as Minister for External Affairs on 1 July 2002. In the Lok Sabha elections of 2004, he was defeated in Hazaribagh Constituency by the able efforts of Prashant Sahay grandson of K B Sahay who later saved his life as well. He re-entered the Parliament in 2005. On 13 June 2009, he resigned from the post of vice-president of BJP. In 2018, he quit the BJP citing the "party's condition" and that "democracy in India is in great danger".
Yashwant Sinha | BJP
He was made Deputy Chief Minister when J. H. Patel became Chief Minister in 1996. After the split in the Janata Dal, he joined the Janata Dal (Secular) faction of Deve Gowda and became the president of its state unit. However, he lost in the 1999 state elections. In 2004, when the Indian National Congress and JD (S) formed a coalition government with Dharam Singh as Chief Minister, he was again appointed as Deputy Chief Minister.He addressed ahinda samavesha in Hubballi, which had the huge public gathering. He even challenged Reddy brothers in the house when he was the leader of the opposition that he would come to Bellary through padayatra.
Siddaramaiah | Political career
Since 1952, six people have been Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh. Three of these belonged to the Indian National Congress party, including inaugural office-holder Yashwant Singh Parmar. After his first term ended in 1956, Himachal Pradesh was made a union territory, and the office of Chief Minister ceased to exist. In 1963, Parmar once again became Chief Minister, and during his reign, in 1971, Himachal regained full statehood. Until March 2015, when he was surpassed by Virbhadra Singh, Parmar was the state's longest-serving chief minister. Between 1993-2017, the chief ministership has changed hands every five years between Virbhadra Singh of the Congress and Prem Kumar Dhumal of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
List of chief ministers of Himachal Pradesh | Introduction
The incumbent chief minister is Manohar Lal Khattar, the first officeholder from the Bharatiya Janta Party, who was sworn in on 26 October 2014.
List of chief ministers of Haryana | Introduction
Yadav first became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 1989. After the collapse of the V. P. Singh national government in November 1990, Yadav joined Chandra Shekhar's Janata Dal (Socialist) party and continued in office as chief minister with the support of the Indian National Congress (INC). His government fell when the INC withdrew their support in April 1991 in the aftermath of developments at the national level where it has earlier withdrawn its support for Chandra Shekhar's government. Mid-term elections to Uttar Pradesh assembly were held in mid-1991, in which Mulayam Singh's party lost power to the BJP.
Mulayam Singh Yadav | First term
Gujarat has had 16 different Chief Ministers since its formation in 1960. From 1960 until 1995 they were all from the Indian National Congress party, except for eight years when the opposition Janata Party/Janata Dal ruled. Since 1995, however, the Bharatiya Janata Party has dominated, controlling the Chief Minister for all except 18 months.
Politics of Gujarat | Chief Ministers
Between 1994 and 1996, Swamy was chairman of the Commission on Labour Standards and International Trade (equivalent in rank to a cabinet minister) under Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao. He continued to be president of the Janata Party till 2013. On 11 August 2013, Swamy officially joined the BJP when its president was Rajnath Singh. His admission to the party would mark the merger of the Janata Party with the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Subramanian Swamy | Later years
Devendra Fadnavis the leader of Bharatiya Janata Party was sworn in the Chief Minister of Maharashtra in October 2014. Here is the list of the ministers of his ministry Shiv Sena joined the Maharashtra government on 5 December 2014.
Devendra Fadnavis ministry | Introduction
1990-92 President, Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.), 1991 Elected to 10th Lok Sabha 1991-96 Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Steel
Jagatvir Singh Drona | Positions held
Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar (13 December 1955 – 17 March 2019) was an Indian politician and leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party who served as Chief Minister of Goa from 14 March 2017 until his death. Previously, he was Chief Minister of Goa from 2000 to 2005 and from 2012 to 2014 and from 2017 to 2019. He also served as the Minister of Defence from October 2014 to March 2017. In January 2020, he was posthumously awarded Padma Bhushan. Parrikar proposed the name of Narendra Modi as the prime ministerial candidate before 2013 BJP parliamentary elections convention in Goa.
Manohar Parrikar | Introduction
During 2005–07, he was appointed as the National Vice President of Bharathiya Janata Party Yuva Morcha (BJYM), under the President ship of Sri. Dharmendra Pradhan (presently, the Hon. Minister for Petroleum and Skill Development). In 2008, he contested the Assembly elections form Belagavi Dakshin and won with a comfortable lead of 12990 votes. During his term as the MLA, he was appointed as the Chairman of the Legislative Assembly's Estimate Committee for two separate terms during 2008-09 and 2012–13, by the Speaker of the Assembly. In 2013, he lost a third consecutive term as an MLA due to the split in the BJP party and lost the election with a narrow margin.
Abhay Patil | Politics
In 1990, Janata Dal came to power in Bihar. PM V. P. Singh wanted former chief minister Ram Sundar Das to lead the government. and Chandra Shekhar backed Raghunath Jha. To break deadlock deputy PM Devi Lal nominated Prasad as CM candidate. He was victorious in an internal poll of Janta Dal MLA's and became the chief minister. On 23 September 1990, Prasad arrested L. K. Advani at Samastipur during the latter's Ram Rath Yatra to Ayodhya, which establish himself as a secular leader among the people of Bihar. The World Bank lauded his party for its work in the 1990s on the economic front.
Lalu Prasad Yadav | 1990–1997: Lalu and wife as chief ministers of Bihar
Dhumal became vice-president of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha in 1982. In 1984, he was selected as the candidate for the Hamirpur parliamentary constituency when the sitting Member of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly (MLA), and state stalwart Jagdev Chand, refused to stand. Dhumal lost that election, won in 1989 and 1991, and lost the seat to Major General Bikram Singh in 1996. After the sudden death of Jagdev Chand in 1993, Dhumal became active in state politics. He was president of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Himachal Pradesh from 1993 and became the state's Chief Minister in March 1998 after winning the Bamsan constituency of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly with a margin of 18,000 votes.
Prem Kumar Dhumal | Political career
At that time there also many leaders in BJP from Uttar Pradesh, but very few had a strong support at the ground level. He was at that time very much close to Atal Bihari Vajpayee and had a very clean image among the people of the State. He also portrayed as a leader of Rajputs(Thakur) who are a powerful community in the state and were also an ardent votebank of the party like Bhairon Singh Shekhawat. Even unlike,L. K. Advani and Kalyan Singh, he was not a leader of "Firebrand Hindutva" Ideology and was a very soft-speaken person.
Rajnath Singh | Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (2000–02)
Harichandan joined Bharatiya Jana Sangha in 1971 and become its National Executive Member and its State General Secretary till the formation of Janata Party in 1977. During the era of emergency he was detained under the MISA Act. After the formation of BJP in 1980, he was appointed as the President for the state till 1988 before he joined hands with Janata Dal. He went back to BJP in 1996. He was elected to the Odisha State Legislative Assembly five times. Beginning from 1977 assembly elections from Chilika assembly as a member of BJP, he came back to power in 1990 with a Janata Dal ticket.
Biswabhusan Harichandan | Life and career
He ask- I impressed by the policy making of then chief minister, he resolutely stated “I voted on the basis of development done by the Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and I am ready to make any sacrifice”. After cross voting in Rajya Sabha election Bhartiya Janata Party suspend him from party. In 2016, he left from Bhartiya Janta Party and joined Samajwadi Party on his ideological.
Vijay Bahadur Yadav | Political career
He was the first Chief Minister of the newly formed Gujarat state from April 1960 to September 1963. Later he also served as the Indian high commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1966.
Jivraj Narayan Mehta | Chief Minister
Singh held office for slightly less than a year, from 2 December 1989 to 10 November 1990. After state legislative elections in March 1990, Singh's governing coalition achieved control of both houses of India's parliament. During this time, Janata Dal came to power in five Indian states under Om Prakash Chautala (Banarsi Das Gupta, Hukam Singh), Chimanbhai Patel, Biju Patnaik, Laloo Prasad Yadav, and Mulayam Singh Yadav, and the National Front constituents in two more NT Rama Rao, and Prafulla Kumar Mahanta. The Janata Dal also shared power in Kerala under EK Nayanar and in Rajasthan under Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (supporting the Bharatiya Janata Party government from outside).
Vishwanath Pratap Singh | Prime Minister (1989 90)
C. Sharma, who said Gujral would directly control the CBI and that the pace of investigating many sensational cases "will definitely slacken now." However, Yadav was still expelled from the party by JD leader Sharad Yadav, before forming his own Rashtriya Janata Dal in 1997. Another controversial decision of his government was its recommendation of President's rule in Uttar Pradesh in 1997. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Uttar Pradesh government, headed by Kalyan Singh, sought a vote of confidence after violence and unruly scenes took place in the assembly. However, President K.R. Narayanan refused to sign the recommendation and sent it back to the government for reconsideration.
Inder Kumar Gujral | Prime Minister
In 2000, he became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and was twice elected as MLA from Haidergarh in 2001 and 2002. He was preceded by Ram Prakash Gupta as the Chief Minister and succeeded the President rule, later after Mayawati became the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. At that time he was appointed as the Chief minister because from very long time he had made an image among people due to his ground level effect from long back the times of 1970's in the JP Movement and was also the Education Minister in Kalyan Singh ministry and was also active in the State Politics.
Rajnath Singh | Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (2000–02)
In 1991 election to Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Bharatiya Janata Party won 221 seats out of total 425 seats. Kalyan Singh the leader of the party in the assembly was sworn in as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh on 24 June 1991. Here is the list of members of his ministry:
Kalyan Singh ministry | Introduction
After the Emergency was lifted, he was elected to the 6th Lok Sabha (1977-1979) on a Janata Party ticket from Kapadvanj but lost that seat in 1980 elections. He was the Vice-President of the Janata Party in Gujarat and from 1980 to 1991 he was the General Secretary and President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Gujarat. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1984 to 1989. In 1989 he was elected to the 9th Lok Sabha (1989–91) from Gandhinagar and in 1991 he was re-elected to the 10th Lok Sabha (1991–96) from Godhra. In 1995, BJP won a majority of 121 seats in the 182-member Legislative Assembly.
Shankersinh Vaghela | Janata Party and Bharatiya Janata Party
Mufti was the first woman to hold the office of Chief Minister in the state. She formed a coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir jointly with the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP). She resigned in June 2018 after the BJP withdrew from the coalition. Mufti is the president of the PDP and was a member of the Indian parliament, representing Anantnag in the 16th Lok Sabha; before she was sworn in as the Chief Minister of J&K. She also represented Anantnag in the 14th Lok Sabha (2004–09).
Mehbooba Mufti | Introduction
He led the coalition of parties known as Janata Morcha. After a week, emergency was imposed by Indira Gandhi but he continued till March 1976 when Congress toppled his government. He again became CM leading Janata Party from 1977 to 1980. He shifted his cabinet to Morbi for six months during 1979 Machchhu dam failure disaster. He became a cabinet minister who headed Sardar Sarovar Dam project in Chimanbhai Patel government in early 1990s.
Babubhai J. Patel | Career
In January 2020, Jagat Prakash Nadda was appointed as the president.
List of presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party | Introduction
Acharya Debaprasad Ghosh () (15 March 1894 – 14 July 1985) was an Indian mathematician, linguist, lawyer, journalist, educationist and statesman. He started his career at the age of 21 as a professor of mathematics at the Ripon College. He was actively involved in politics as the President of Bharatiya Jana Sangh from 1956 to 1965, except for the period between 1960 and 1962. He was the longest serving opposition party leader in Indian history, and the fourth longest serving leader of any political party after Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Debaprasad Ghosh | Introduction
Later he resigned as CM stating the lack of a BJP majority as the reason. Fadnavis is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. At the age of 44, he became the second youngest Chief Minister of Maharashtra after Sharad Pawar. Fadnavis represents the Nagpur South West constituency in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He was the first Chief Minister of Maharashtra from Bharatiya Janata Party and the second after Vasantrao Naik to have completed his full tenure as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
Devendra Fadnavis | Introduction
In 1995, Kanabhai was first time elected as MLA and was a part of Government of Gujarat. During the period of 1995-1998 there was a dramatic situation of Bharatiya Janta Party itself in Gujarat, Until Shri Narendra Modi taken the Charge of the Party. There were certain issues of Leadership when, three Chief Ministers were changed in a short period.Shankersinh Vaghela rebelled and left BJP, formed his new party, then he joined Congress. Keshubhai Patel taken the charge as Chief Minister, preceded to Dilip Parikh, but the internal issues of party were at top. In spite of indulging in Cast-ism and Group-ism Politics Kanabhai keep continued his work of social service and development of Morbi.
Kantilal Amrutiya | Tenure as M.L.A of Morbi
Mr. Rohani joined the Bharatiya Jan Sangh in 1965 and was elected to the Jabalpur Municipal Corporation in 1973. He was detained under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act during The Emergency. He was elected Deputy Speaker in 1998 and served as speaker from 2003 until his death.
Ishwardas Rohani | Political career