Bharatiya Janata Party – West Bengal

Bharatiya Janata Party – West Bengal
ভারতীয় জনতা পার্টি – পশ্চিমবঙ্গ
AbbreviationBJP
LeaderSuvendu Adhikari
(Leader of Opposition)
PresidentSamik Bhattacharya
General SecretaryAmitava Chakravorty
Founder
Headquarters6, Muralidhar Sen Lane, College Square, Kolkata-700073, West Bengal
NewspaperBanga Kamal Barta
Student wingABVP
Youth wingBharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, West Bengal
Women's wingBJP Mahila Morcha, West Bengal
Ideology
Political positionRight-wing[12] to far-right[13]
Colours  Saffron
SloganJoy Maa Kali, Joy Maa Durga, Joy Shree Ram
AllianceNational Democratic Alliance
Seats in West Bengal Legislative Assembly
65 / 294
Seats in Rajya Sabha
3 / 16
Seats in Lok Sabha
12 / 42
Election symbol
Website
bjpbengal.org

Bharatiya Janata Party – West Bengal (BJP - West Bengal) also known as the West Bengal BJP (পশ্চিমবঙ্গ বিজেপি) or Bengal BJP (বঙ্গ বিজেপি), is the Bharatiya Janata Party affiliate in the Indian state of West Bengal. The party is based in Kolkata and is led by chair Samik Bhattacharya.

The party holds 3 seats in the Rajya Sabha and 12 seats in the Lok Sabha from the state. Furthermore, the party has 65 seats in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.

History

Predecessors and formation

The origins of the BJP lies in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Syama Prasad Mukherjee, the founder of the BJS, was born in Calcutta (Now Kolkata), while K. B. Hedgewar, the founder of the RSS also studied in the city. In the 1960s, plenty of RSS offices opened across the state. They mostly worked with Marwari traders as well as migrants from eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, in Kolkata's Burrabazar. By late 1960s, local meetings were conducted in Bengali as well.[14]

Electoral performance

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

The BJP started its operation within the state from the grassroots level of governance, particularly the panchayat politics. The party also used various cultural icons in the state, including Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and Swami Vivekananda in its election campaigns.[15]

The Bharatiya Janata Party contested the West Bengal assembly election for the first time in 1982.[16] The primary objective of the party was to create a nucleus for a future third force in West Bengal politics.[16] The party supported the call of the West Bengal government to hold the elections in March 1982.[17] 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.[18]

In the 1987 the party contested on 57 constituencies and slightly increased its votes to 134,867.[19]

In 1989 Lok Sabha election, BJP contested on 19 seats and got 529618 (1.67%) votes in West Bengal.[20]

1990s

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).[21][16] This was the first time BJP fielded such a large number of candidates in West Bengal assembly elections.[16] 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.[22] The campaign sought to invoke Bengali memories of Partition.[22] While support for BJP increased among Bengali communities, its main stronghold in the state remained non-Bengali populations in Calcutta (Marwaris and Gujaratis).[22] Besides this, the party was able to mobilize the rural voters who were not benefitted from Left government's land reforms.[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[23] and contested 42 Lok Sabha seats and got 2525864 (6.88%) votes across the state.[24]

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.[25] 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).[26]

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).[27] 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.[28]

2000s

In 2001 Assembly election, BJP contested on 266 constituencies and got 1901351 (5.19%) votes throughout the state and 5.68% in seats contested.[29]

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.[30] The BJP however managed to get 2983950 (8.06%) votes.[31]

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.[32]

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.[33]

2010s

In 2011 Legislative Assembly election the BJP allied with GJM.[34]

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.[35]

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.[36]

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.[37] The shift in the voting pattern was seen across the state.[38]

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.[39][40]

Post 2020

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.[41][42]

In 2021 Assembly election the BJP in an alliance with AJSU contested 293 seats and got 28,968,281(38.15%) votes and created history by winning 77 assembly seats for the first time and becoming the second largest party and the official opposition. Ahead of the election, numerous politicians from other parties, including the governing Trinamool Congress, joined the BJP. Notably, Suvendu Adhikari and Mihir Goswami, both of whom switched parties before the elections, were appointed as leader of opposition and deputy leader of opposition in the legislative assembly respectively.

Leadership and Organizational Structure

The following is the current organizational structure of the Bharatiya Janata Party – West Bengal as of January 2026[43]:

State Office Bearers (2026)

Position Name
State President Samik Bhattacharya
General Secretary (Organisation) Amitava Chakravorty
Joint General Secretary (Organisation) Satish Dhond
General Secretaries
Vice Presidents
State Secretaries
  • Shankar Ghosh
  • Deepanjan Guha
  • Sonali Murmu
  • Manoj Pandey
  • Amlan Bhaduri
  • Mahadev Sarkar
  • Sakharav Sarkar
  • Sintu Senapati
  • Sarbori Mukherjee
  • Mohon Sharma
  • Sanjay Varma
  • Biva Majumdar
State Spokesperson Debjit Sarkar
Treasurer Kedarashish Bapat
Social Media Convener Saptarshi Choudhury
Media Convener Bimal Shankar Nanda

Morcha Presidents (2026)

Morcha President
Yuva Morcha Indranil Khan
Mahila Morcha Phalguni Patra
SC Morcha Sujit Biswas
ST Morcha Khagen Murmu
OBC Morcha Subhendu Sarkar
Kisan Morcha Rajib Bhowmick
Minority Morcha Ali Hussain

List of State Presidents

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 Haripada Bharati 1980–1982
2 Vishnu Kant Shastri 1982–1986
3 Sukumar Banerjee 1986–1991
4 Tapan Sikdar 1991–1995
(2) Vishnu Kant Shastri 1995–1997
(4) Tapan Sikdar 1997–1999
5 Ashim Kumar 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 Sukanta Majumdar 2021–2025
11 Samik Bhattacharya 2025–Incumbent

The West Bengal BJP has one president, twelve vice-presidents and five general secretaries & twelve secretaries.[44] As of July 2025, the President of the West Bengal state branch of the party is Samik Bhattacharya.

Dilip Ghosh is the 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 Leaders of Legislative Party

No Portrait Name Constituency Term Legislative office Assembly Chief Minister
1 Manoj Tigga Madarihat 2016 2021 5 years  – 16th Mamata Banerjee
2 Suvendu Adhikari Nandigram 10 May 2021 Incumbent 4 years, 319 days Leader of the Opposition 17th Mamata Banerjee

Electoral performance

Lok Sabha

Year Seats Won Seats +/- Vote Share (%) +/- (%) Outcome
Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1951–52
2 / 31
 New 5.94% New Others
1957
0 / 36
 2 1.43% 4.51% Others
1962
0 / 36
 1.05% 0.38% Others
1967
0 / 40
 1.39% 0.34% Others
1971
0 / 40
 0.85% 0.54% Others
Janata Party[a]
1977
15 / 42
 New 21.46% New Government
1980
0 / 42
 15 4.53% 16.93% Opposition
Bharatiya Janata Party
1984
0 / 42
 New 0.4% New Others
1989
0 / 42
 1.67% 1.37% Opposition
1991
0 / 42
 11.66% 9.99% Opposition
1996
0 / 42
 6.88% 4.78% Opposition
1998
1 / 42
 1 10.2% 3.32% Government
1999
2 / 42
 1 11.13% 0.93% Government
2004
0 / 42
 2 8.06% 3.07% Opposition
2009
1 / 42
 1 6.14% 1.92% Opposition
2014
2 / 42
 1 16.84% 10.7% Government
2019
18 / 42
 16 40.64% 23.8% Government
2024
12 / 42
 6 39.1% 1.54% Government

Legislative Assembly

Year Seats Won Seats +/- Vote Share (%) +/- (%) Outcome
Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1952
9 / 187
 New 5.58% New Others
1957
0 / 195
 9 0.98% 4.6% Others
1962
0 / 252
 0.45% 0.53% Others
1967
0 / 280
 1.33% 0.88% Others
1969
0 / 280
 0.89% 0.44% Others
1971
1 / 279
 1 0.82% 0.07% Others
1972
0 / 280
 1 0.19% 0.63% Others
Janata Party
1977
29 / 294
 New 20.02% New Opposition
Bharatiya Janata Party
1982
0 / 294
 New 0.58% New Others
1987
0 / 294
 0.51% 0.07% Others
1991
0 / 294
 11.34% 10.83% Others
1996
0 / 294
 6.45% 4.89% Others
2001
0 / 294
 5.19% 1.26% Others
2006
0 / 294
 1.93% 3.26% Others
2011
0 / 294
 4.06% 2.13% Others
2016
3 / 294
 3 10.16% 6.1% Others
2021
77 / 294
 74 37.97% 27.81% Opposition

Local elections

Municipal Corporation

Year Municipal Corporation Seats Won Change in Seats Status
Darjeeling district
2015 Siliguri Municipal Corporation
2 / 47
 2 Opposition
2022
5 / 47
 3 Opposition
Hooghly district
2015 Chandannagar Municipal Corporation
1 / 33
 Opposition
2022
0 / 33
 1 Others
Howrah district
2013 Howrah Municipal Corporation
2 / 50
 Opposition
Kolkata district
2015 Kolkata Municipal Corporation
7 / 144
 Opposition
2021
3 / 144
 4 Opposition
North 24 Parganas district
2015 Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation
0 / 41
 Others
2022
0 / 41
 Others
Paschim Bardhaman district
2015 Asansol Municipal Corporation
8 / 106
 Opposition
2022
7 / 106
 1 Opposition
2017 Durgapur Municipal Corporation
0 / 43
 Others


Current elected members

Incumbent member(s) of Lok Sabha

S.No. Constituency Name Win Margin in 2024
# Name
01. 2 Alipurduars Manoj Tigga 75,447
02. 3 Jalpaiguri Jayanta Kumar Roy 86,693
03. 4 Darjeeling Raju Bista 1,78,525
04. 5 Raiganj Kartick Chandra Paul 68,197
05. 6 Balurghat Sukanta Majumdar 10,386
06. 7 Maldaha Uttar Khagen Murmu 77,708
07. 13 Ranaghat Jagannath Sarkar 1,86,899
08. 14 Bongaon Shantanu Thakur 73,693
09. 30 Tamluk Abhijit Gangopadhyay 77,733
10. 31 Kanthi Soumendu Adhikari 47,764
11. 35 Purulia Jyotirmay Singh Mahato 17,079
12. 37 Bishnupur Saumitra Khan 5,567

Incumbent member(s) of Legislative Assembly

S.No. Constituency Name Remarks Win Margin in 2021
# Name
Cooch Behar District
01. 2 Mathabhanga Sushil Barman 26,134
02. 3 Cooch Behar Uttar Sukumar Roy 14,615
03. 4 Cooch Behar Dakshin Nikhil Ranjan Dey 4,799
04. 5 Sitalkuchi Baren Chandra Barman 17,815
05. 8 Natabari Mihir Goswami Deputy Leader of Opposition 23,440
06. 9 Tufanganj Malati Rava Roy 31,198
Alipurduar District
07. 10 Kumargram Manoj Kumar Oraon 11,001
08. 11 Kalchini Bishal Lama 28,576
09. 13 Falakata Dipak Barman 3,990
Jalpaiguri District
10. 16 Maynaguri Kaushik Roy 11,911
11. 19 Dabgram-Phulbari Sikha Chatterjee 27,593
12. 21 Nagrakata Puna Bhengra 14,402
Darjeeling District
13. 23 Darjeeling Neeraj Zimba 21,726
14. 25 Matigara-Naxalbari Anandamoy Barman 70,848
15. 26 Siliguri Shankar Ghosh Chief Whip 35,586
16. 27 Phansidewa Durga Murmu 27,711
Uttar Dinajpur District
17. 34 Kaliaganj Soumen Roy 21,820
Dakshin Dinajpur District
18. 39 Balurghat Ashok Lahiri 12,899
19. 40 Tapan Budhrai Tudu 1,650
20. 41 Gangarampur Satyendra Nath Ray 4,592
Malda District
21. 43 Habibpur Joyel Murmu 19,517
22. 44 Gazole Chinmoy Deb Barman 1,798
23. 50 Maldaha Gopal Chandra Saha 15,456
24. 51 English Bazar Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury 20,099
Murshidabad District
25. 64 Murshidabad Gouri Shankar Ghosh 2,491
26. 72 Baharampur Subrata Maitra 26,852
Nadia District
27. 87 Ranaghat Uttar Paschim Parthasarathi Chatterjee 23,128
28. 88 Krishnaganj Ashis Kumar Biswas 21,277
29. 89 Ranaghat Uttar Purba Ashim Biswas 31,782
30. 91 Chakdaha Bankim Chandra Ghosh 11,680
31. 92 Kalyani Ambika Roy 2,206
32. 93 Haringhata Ashim Kumar Sarkar 15,200
North 24 Parganas District
33. 95 Bangaon Uttar Ashok Kirtania 10,488
34. 96 Bangaon Dakshin Swapan Majumder 2,004
35. 97 Gaighata Subrata Thakur 9,578
36. 105 Bhatpara Pawan Kumar Singh 13,687
Hooghly District
37. 199 Pursurah Biman Ghosh 28,178
38. 200 Arambagh Madhusudan Bag 7,172
39. 201 Goghat Biswanath Karak 4,147
40. 202 Khanakul Susanta Ghosh 12,884
Purba Medinipur District
41. 206 Moyna Ashok Dinda 1,260
42. 210 Nandigram Suvendu Adhikari Leader of Opposition 1,956
43. 213 Kanthi Uttar Sumita Sinha 9,330
44. 214 Bhagabanpur Rabindranath Maity 27,549
45. 215 Khejuri Santanu Pramanik 17,965
46. 216 Kanthi Dakshin Arup Kumar Das 10,293
Paschim Medinipur District
47. 224 Kharagpur Sadar Hiran Chatterjee 3,771
48. 231 Ghatal Sital Kapat 966
Purulia District
49. 239 Balarampur Baneswar Mahato 273
50. 241 Joypur Narahari Mahato 12,102
51. 242 Purulia Sudip Kumar Mukherjee 6,585
52. 244 Kashipur Kamalakanta Hansda 7,240
53. 245 Para Nadiar Chand Bouri 3,944
54. 246 Raghunathpur Vivekananda Bauri 5,323
Bankura District
55. 247 Saltora Chandana Bauri 4,145
56. 248 Chhatna Satyanarayan Mukhopadhyay 7,164
57. 252 Bankura Niladri Sekhar Dana 1,468
58. 254 Onda Amarnath Shakha 11,551
59. 257 Indas Nirmal Kumar Dhara 7,220
60. 258 Sonamukhi Dibakar Gharami 5,323
Paschim Bardhaman District
61. 277 Durgapur Paschim Lakshman Chandra Ghorui 14,664
62. 280 Asansol Dakshin Agnimitra Paul 4,487
63. 282 Kulti Ajay Kumar Poddar 679
Birbhum District
64. 284 Dubrajpur Anup Kumar Saha 3,863

Defections, deaths and resignations since 2021

The BJP had won 77 seats in the 2021 elections. However, owing to several of its MLAs resigning, defecting to the Trinamool Congress and one death, the BJP's seats gradually reduced to 64 (as of February 2026).

S.No. Constituency Name Remarks Win Margin in 2021
# Name
Cooch Behar district
01. 7 Dinhata Nisith Pramanik Resigned on 12 May 2021; retained Cooch Behar MP designation[b] 57
Alipurduar district
02. 12 Alipurduars Suman Kanjilal Defected to AITC in February 2023 16,007
03. 14 Madarihat (ST) Manoj Tigga Elected as Alipurduar MP in 2024 thus resigned as MLA 29,685
Jalpaiguri district
04. 15 Dhupguri (SC) Bishnu Pada Ray Died on 25 July 2023 4,355
Darjeeling district
05. 24 Kurseong Bishnu Prasad Sharma Defected to AITC on 19 February 2026 15,515
Uttar Dinajpur district
06. 35 Raiganj Krishna Kalyani Defected to AITC in October 2021; re-elected as AITC MLA in 2024. 20,748
Nadia district
07. 83 Krishnanagar Uttar Mukul Roy Defected to AITC in June 2021, died on 23 February 2026 35,089
08. 86 Santipur Jagannath Sarkar Resigned on 12 May 2021; retained Ranaghat MP designation[c] 15,878
09. 90 Ranaghat Dakshin (SC) Mukut Mani Adhikari Defected to AITC in March 2024; re-elected as AITC MLA in 2024. 16,515
North 24 Parganas district
10. 94 Bagdah (SC) Biswajit Das Defected to AITC in August 2021. 9,792
Purba Medinipur district
11. 209 Haldia (SC) Tapasi Mondal Defected to AITC in March 2025. 15,008
Bankura district
12. 255 Bishnupur Tanmay Ghosh Defected to AITC in August 2021. 11,133
13. 256 Katulpur (SC) Harakali Protiher Defected to AITC in October 2023. 11,785

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Janata Party was the amalgamation of Bharatiya Lok Dal & Bharatiya Jana Sangh, formed in 1977.
  2. ^ One cannot be an MP and MLA at the same time, hence to retain his position as MP, Nisith Pramanik resigned as Dinhata MLA
  3. ^ One cannot be an MP and MLA at the same time, hence to retain his position as MP, Jagannath Sarkar resigned as Santipur MLA

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