List of state presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party

This is a list of State Presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Current state presidents

[1]

State/UT	Name	Portrait	Took office	Appointed by (National President)	Ref.
Andhra Pradesh	Somu Veerraju		27 July 2020 (191 days)	Jagat Prakash Nadda	[2]
Arunachal Pradesh	Biyuram Wahge		17 January 2020 (1 year, 17 days)		[3]
Assam	Ranjit Kumar Das		16 December 2016 (4 years, 49 days)	Amit Shah	[4] [5]
Bihar	Sanjay Jaiswal		15 September 2019 (1 year, 141 days)	Jagat Prakash Nadda	[6]
Chhattisgarh	Vishnudeo Sai		2 June 2020 (246 days)		[7]
Goa	Sadanand Tanavade		12 January 2020 (1 year, 22 days)		[8]
Gujarat	C. R. Patil		20 July 2020 (198 days)		[9]
Haryana	O. P. Dhankar		19 July 2020 (199 days)		[10]
Himachal Pradesh	Suresh Kumar Kashyap		22 July 2020 (196 days)		[11]
Jharkhand	Deepak Prakash		25 February 2020 (344 days)		[12]
Karnataka	Nalin Kumar Kateel		20 August 2019 (1 year, 167 days)		[13] [14]
Kerala	K. Surendran		15 February 2020 (354 days)		[15]
Madhya Pradesh	V. D. Sharma		15 February 2020 (354 days)		[16]
Maharashtra	Chandrakant Bacchu Patil		17 July 2019 (1 year, 201 days)		[17] [18]
Manipur	S. Tikendra Singh		2 June 2020 (246 days)		[19]
Meghalaya	Ernest Mawrie		15 January 2020 (1 year, 19 days)		[20]
Mizoram	Vanlalhmuaka		7 January 2020 (1 year, 27 days)		[21]
Nagaland	Temjen Imma Along		19 June 2018 (2 years, 229 days)	Amit Shah	[22] [23]
Odisha	Samir Mohanty		16 January 2020 (1 year, 18 days)	Jagat Prakash Nadda	[24]
Punjab	Ashwani Kumar Sharma		17 January 2020 (1 year, 17 days)		[25]
Rajasthan	Satish Poonia		14 September 2019 (1 year, 142 days)		[26]
Sikkim	Dal Bahadur Chauhan		12 September 2017 (3 years, 144 days)	Amit Shah	[27]
Tamil Nadu	L. Murugan		11 March 2020 (329 days)	Jagat Prakash Nadda	[28]
Telangana	Bandi Sanjay Kumar		11 March 2020 (329 days)		[29]
Tripura	Manik Saha		15 January 2020 (1 year, 19 days)		[30]
Uttar Pradesh	Swatantra Dev Singh		16 July 2019 (1 year, 202 days)		[31]
Uttarakhand	Banshidhar Bhagat		16 January 2020 (1 year, 18 days)		[32]
West Bengal	Dilip Ghosh		16 December 2015 (5 years, 49 days)	Amit Shah	[33] [34]
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	Ajoy Bairagi		16 January 2020 (1 year, 18 days)	Jagat Prakash Nadda	[35]
Chandigarh	Arun Sood		18 January 2020 (1 year, 16 days)		[36]
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	Deepesh Thakorbhai Tandel		18 January 2020 (1 year, 16 days)		[37]
Delhi	Adesh Kumar Gupta		2 June 2020 (246 days)		[38]
Jammu and Kashmir	Ravinder Raina		14 May 2018 (2 years, 265 days)	Amit Shah	[39]
Ladakh	Jamyang Tsering Namgyal		20 July 2020 (198 days)	Jagat Prakash Nadda	[40]
Lakshadweep	Abdul Khader Haji		22 April 2017 (3 years, 257 days)	Amit Shah	[41] [42]
Puducherry	V. Saminathan		12 January 2016 (5 years, 22 days)		[43][44]

See also

• List of presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party
• State units of the Bharatiya Janata Party
• Bharatiya Janata Party

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