List of state presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party

This is a list of State Presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party. As per the BJP's internal constitution President of party appoints state presidents.^[1]^[2]

State-wise party presidents

State	Name	Took office	Ref.
Andhra Pradesh	Daggubati Purandeswari	4 July 2023 (1 year, 53 days)	^[3]
Arunachal Pradesh	Biyuram Wahge	17 January 2020 (4 years, 222 days)	^[4]
Assam	Bhabesh Kalita	26 June 2021 (3 years, 61 days)	^[5]
Bihar	Dilip Kumar Jaiswal	26 July 2024 (31 days)	^[6]
Chhattisgarh	Kiran Singh Deo	21 December 2023 (249 days)	^[7]
Goa	Sadanand Tanavade	12 January 2020 (4 years, 227 days)	^[8]
Gujarat	C. R. Patil	20 July 2020 (4 years, 37 days)	^[9]
Haryana	Mohan Lal Badoli	9 July 2024 (48 days)	^[10]
Himachal Pradesh	Rajeev Bindal	23 April 2023 (1 year, 125 days)	^[11]
Jharkhand	Babulal Marandi	4 July 2023 (1 year, 53 days)	^[12]
Karnataka	B. Y. Vijayendra	10 November 2023 (290 days)	^[13] ^[14]
Kerala	K. Surendran	15 February 2020 (4 years, 193 days)	^[15]
Madhya Pradesh	V. D. Sharma	15 February 2020 (4 years, 193 days)	^[16]
Maharashtra	Chandrashekhar Bawankule	12 August 2022 (2 years, 14 days)	^[17]
Manipur	Adhikarimayum Sharda Devi	26 June 2021 (3 years, 61 days)	^[18]
Meghalaya	Rikman Momin	25 September 2023 (336 days)	^[19]
Mizoram	Vanlalhmuaka	7 January 2020 (4 years, 232 days)	^[20]
Nagaland	Benjamin Yepthomi	25 September 2023 (336 days)	^[21] ^[22]
Odisha	Manmohan Samal	23 March 2023 (1 year, 156 days)	^[23]
Punjab	Sunil Jakhar	4 July 2023 (1 year, 53 days)	^[24]
Rajasthan	Madan Rathore	26 July 2024 (31 days)	^[6]
Sikkim	Dilli Ram Thapa	4 February 2023 (1 year, 204 days)	^[25]
Tamil Nadu	K. Annamalai	8 July 2021 (3 years, 49 days)	^[26]
Telangana	G. Kishan Reddy	4 July 2023 (1 year, 53 days)	^[27]
Tripura	Rajib Bhattacharjee	25 August 2022 (2 years, 1 day)	^[28]
Uttar Pradesh	Chaudhary Bhupendra Singh	25 August 2022 (2 years, 1 day)	^[29]
Uttarakhand	Mahendra Bhatt	30 July 2022 (2 years, 27 days)	^[30]
West Bengal	Sukanta Majumdar	20 September 2021 (2 years, 341 days)	^[31] ^[32]

Union territory-wise party presidents

State/UT	Name	Took office	Ref.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	Ajoy Bairagi	16 January 2020 (4 years, 223 days)	^[33]
Chandigarh	Jatinder Pal Malhotra	13 October 2023 (318 days)
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	Deepesh Thakorbhai Tandel	18 January 2020 (4 years, 221 days)	^[34]
Delhi	Virendra Sachdeva	24 March 2023 (1 year, 155 days)	^[35]
Jammu and Kashmir	Ravinder Raina	14 May 2018 (4 years, 225 days)	^[36]
Ladakh	Phunchok Stanzin	9 January 2022 (2 years, 230 days)	^[37]
Lakshadweep	K.N. Kasmikoya	9 January 2022 (2 years, 230 days)	^[38]
Puducherry	S Selvaganapathy	25 September 2023 (336 days)	^[39]^[40]

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