Bharatiya Janata Party, Telangana

Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party (or BJP Telangana) is a state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Telangana. The headquarters is located in Hyderabad, the capital of the state. The party appointed Bandi Sanjay Kumar as the president of the BJP Telangana and he is currently serving to this position from 2020.[1]

Bharatiya Janata Party, Telangana
భారతీయ జనతా పార్టీ, తెలంగాణ
PresidentBandi Sanjay Kumar
General SecretaryM Srinivalusu
Parliamentary ChairpersonEtela Rajender
Founded6 April 1980 (1980-04-06)
HeadquartersNampally, Hyderabad, Telangana
Youth wingBharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, Telangana
Women's wingBJP Mahila Morcha, Telangana
Ideology
Colours  Saffron
AllianceNational Democratic Alliance
Seats in Lok Sabha
4 / 17
Seats in Rajya Sabha
0 / 7
Seats in Telangana Legislative Assembly
3 / 119
Seats in Telangana Legislative Council
1 / 40
Election symbol
Party flag
Website
bjptelangana.org

History

After the formation of Telangana, BJP in alliance with Telugu Desam Party fought the 2014 Legislative Assembly election.[2] BJP won 5 seats in the newly formed Telangana Legislative Assembly. BJP also won a Lok Sabha seat from Secunderabad constituency in the simultaneously held 2014 Lok Sabha election.[3]

In 2018, the state assembly was dissolved earlier than its term, and elections were held same year. BJP in this election could only secure 1 seat.[4] However, in the 2019 Lok Sabha BJP won 4 out of the 17 seats.[5] The BJP got 19.45% of the total votes.[6]

Leadership

President
No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)		 Tenure Ref.
Assumed Office Left Office Time in Office
1 G. Kishan Reddy


(1960–)

 2 June 2014 8 April 2016 677 [7]
2 K. Laxman


(1960–)

 8 April 2016 11 March 2020 1434
3 Bandi Sanjay Kumar


(1971–)

 11 March 2020 Incumbent 1156 [1]

Legislative Assembly Floor Leader
Year Floor leader
2014-2019 G. Kishan Reddy
2019- Raja Singh

Legislative Council Floor Leader
Year Floor leader
2015-2021 N. Ramchander Rao
2023-2029 A. Venkata Narayana Reddy

Electoral Performance

Legislative Assembly elections
Vote share in consecutive Telangana Assembly elections
2018
 
 7.1%
Year Legislature Party leader Seats won Change in seats Percentage
of votes		 Vote swing Popular vote Outcome Ref.
2014 1st Telangana Assembly G. Kishan Reddy
5 / 119
 Steady 4.13% Steady Opposition [8]
2018 2nd Telangana Assembly K. Laxman
1 / 119
 Decrease 4 7.1% Steady 14,50,456 Others [9]

Lok Sabha elections
Vote share in consecutive Telangana Assembly elections
2019
 
 19.45%
Year Legislature Party leader Seats won Change in seats Percentage
of votes		 Vote swing Popular vote Outcome Ref.
2014 16th Lok Sabha G. Kishan Reddy
1 / 17
 Steady 4.13% Steady Government
2019 17th Lok Sabha K. Laxman
4 / 17
 Increase 3 19.45% Steady 36,26,173 Government [10]

Other

Union Ministers
Year Name Ministry
2014 Bandaru Dattatreya Minister of State for Labour and Employment
2019 G. Kishan Reddy Union Minister of Tourism, Culture and Development of North Eastern Region of India.

Incumbent Member(s) of Parliament
Further information: List of members of the 17th Lok Sabha
S.No. Constituency MP
# Name
1 1 Adilabad Soyam Bapu Rao
2 3 Karimnagar Bandi Sanjay Kumar
3 4 Nizamabad Dharmapuri Arvind
4 8 Secunderabad G. Kishan Reddy

Incumbent Member(s) of Legislative Assembly
S.No. Constituency MLA
# Name
1 31 Huzurabad Etela Rajendar
2 41 Dubbak Raghunandan Rao

See also

References
  1. "Bandi Sanjay is new Telangana BJP president". The Hindu. Special Correspondent. 12 March 2020. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 25 November 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. Mallikarjun, Y. (7 April 2014). "TDP-BJP deal after days of uncertainty". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  3. IANS (9 November 2014). "Bandaru Dattatreya - a simple leader from backward class (Profile)". Business Standard India. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  4. "BJP decimated in Telangana, wins only one MLA seat in Hyderabad". The News Minute. 11 December 2018. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  5. Geetanath, V. (23 May 2019). "Double delight for BJP in Telangana". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  6. "BJP takes Telangana by storm, gets 19.45% vote share - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  7. "BJP appoints K Laxman as Telangana party president". The News Minute. 8 April 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  8. "Telangana Election Result: Telangana Assembly Election Result | Economic Times". The Economic Times. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  9. "Telangana Election Results 2018: TRS wins 88 seats, KCR set to return for a second term". Financialexpress.
  10. The Hindu Net Desk (23 May 2019). "As it happened | Telangana Lok Sabha results 2019: highlights". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
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