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The organisation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is based upon the Constitution of the Bharatiya Janata Party.[1] The organisation of the BJP is strictly hierarchical, with the president being the highest authority in the party. The party is considered to be a cadre-based party that draws from the Hindutva-based ideology of its parent organisation, the RSS.[2][3]

As of 2019, it is the country's largest political party in terms of representation in the national parliament and state assemblies and is the world's largest party in terms of primary membership.[4]

Parent organisation

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BJP also draws its membership from the organisation of the Sangh Parivar.

Departments

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The BJP on the national level has several publicly known internal departments, such as:[5]

  • Good Governance
  • Policy Research
  • Media
  • Media Relations
  • Training
  • Political Feedback and Response
  • National Programs and Meetings
  • Documentation and Library
  • Sahayog and Disaster Relief Service
  • President Office Tours and Programs
  • Publicity Literature
  • Coordination of Trusts
  • Election Management
  • Election Commission
  • Legal Affairs
  • Party Journals and Publications
  • IT, Website and Social Media Management
  • Foreign Affairs

The BJP does not publicly release more information about these departments aside from their respective heads.[5]

National level

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National President

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The organisation of the BJP is strictly hierarchical, with the president being the highest authority in the party.[6] According to the party's constitution, the president is elected by an electoral college consisting of the National Council and the State Councils. Until 2012, the BJP constitution mandated that any qualified member could be national or state president for a single three-year term.[6] This was amended to a maximum of two consecutive terms.[7]

National Executive

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The National Executive of Bharatiya Janata Party is the presidium and chief executive body of the Bharatiya Janata Party setting the overall strategic direction of the party and policy development. It is composed of members appointed by the BJP president and can have as many as 120 members.[1]

Below the president is the National Executive of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which contains a variable number of senior leaders from across the country appointed by the President of the party. It is the higher decision making body of the party. It consists of several office holders of the party, including up to seven vice-presidents, up to five general secretaries, one general secretary (organisation), one treasurer and up to seven secretaries who work directly with the president.[6]

The National Executive has the authority to interpret the Articles and Rules of the party constitution. The Executive can also amend, alter and add to the party constitution which is subject to rectification by the following Plenary Session or Special Session of National Council. The National Executive also oversees the internal elections to the President and the National Council and appoints a returning officer for conducting the triennial election of the party.[citation needed]

An identical structure, with a State Executive Committee led by a State President, exists at the state level.[6]

Parliamentary Board

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The Parliamentary Board is the governing body of the BJP which takes day-to-day decisions on behalf of the National Executive. The National Executive sets up a Parliamentary Board consisting of Party President and ten other members.[8][9][10] The Parliamentary Board supervises the activities of the parliamentary and legislative groups of the Party. It guides and regulates all the organisational units under the National Executive.[11][12]

S.No Member
1. Jagat Prakash Nadda
2. Narendra Modi
3. Rajnath Singh
4. Amit Shah
5. B. S. Yediyurappa
6. Sarbananda Sonowal
7. K. Laxman
8. Iqbal Singh Lalpura
9. Sudha Yadav
10. Satyanarayan Jatiya
11. B. L. Santhosh

Central Election Committee

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The Central Election Committee, is also set up by the National Executive, and consist of the 11 members of the Parliamentary Board and 8 other members[a][13] elected by the National Executive.[8][10][14] The role of the CEC is to select candidates for all Legislative and Parliamentary elections throughout India.[15][16][17]

S.No Member
1. Jagat Prakash Nadda
2. Narendra Modi
3. Rajnath Singh
4. Amit Shah
5. B. S. Yediyurappa
6. Sarbananda Sonowal
7. K. Laxman
8. Iqbal Singh Lalpura
9. Sudha Yadav
10. Satyanarayan Jatiya
11. B. L. Santhosh
12. Bhupender Yadav
13. Devendra Fadnavis
14. Vanathi Srinivasan

National Council

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The National Council is the highest policy making body of the party. It is also responsible for rectification of any amendment, alteration and addition to the party constitution by National Executive in the following Plenary Session or Special Session. The National Council along with the State Council also elects the President every three year. The National Council consists of members that are elected by the State Councils, 10% of the parliamentary party, former national Presidents, leaders of state legislative assemblies and state legislative councils, members nominated by the national president, all members of the National Executive, presidents of Morchas and Cells.[1]

State level

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This is a list of the official state and territorial units of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

State/UT Unit Seats in Lok Sabha Seats in Rajya Sabha Seats in
State
Legislative
Assemblies 		Seats in
State
Legislative
Councils
India BJP National Council
240 / 543
(1 Vacant) 		Elected
97 / 233
(1 Vacant) Nominated
2 / 12
(4 Vacant)
1,655 / 4,126
148 / 426
State Units of the Bharatiya Janata Party
Andhra Pradesh BJP Andhra Pradesh
3 / 25
2 / 11
8 / 175
 Elected
1 / 50
Nominated
0 / 8
Arunachal Pradesh BJP Arunachal Pradesh
2 / 2
1 / 1
46 / 60
Assam BJP Assam
9 / 14
4 / 7
64 / 126
Bihar BJP Bihar
12 / 40
4 / 16
84 / 243
 Elected
18 / 63
Nominated
6 / 12
Chhattisgarh BJP Chhattisgarh
10 / 11
1 / 5
54 / 90
Goa BJP Goa
1 / 2
1 / 1
28 / 40
Gujarat BJP Gujarat
25 / 26
10 / 11
161 / 182
Haryana BJP Haryana
5 / 10
4 / 5
48 / 90
Himachal Pradesh BJP Himachal Pradesh
4 / 4
3 / 3
28 / 68
Jharkhand BJP Jharkhand
8 / 14
3 / 6
21 / 81
Karnataka BJP Karnataka
17 / 28
6 / 12
66 / 224
 Elected
26 / 64
Nominated
3 / 11
Kerala BJP Kerala
1 / 20
0 / 9
0 / 140
Madhya Pradesh BJP Madhya Pradesh
29 / 29
8 / 11
165 / 230
Maharashtra BJP Maharashtra
9 / 48
8 / 19
132 / 288
 Elected
19 / 66
Nominated
3 / 12
Manipur BJP Manipur
0 / 2
1 / 1
37 / 60
Meghalaya BJP Meghalaya
0 / 2
0 / 1
2 / 60
Mizoram BJP Mizoram
0 / 1
0 / 1
2 / 40
Nagaland BJP Nagaland
0 / 1
1 / 1
12 / 60
Odisha BJP Odisha
20 / 21
3 / 10
78 / 147
Punjab BJP Punjab
0 / 13
0 / 7
2 / 117
Rajasthan BJP Rajasthan
14 / 25
4 / 10
119 / 200
Sikkim BJP Sikkim
0 / 1
1 / 1
0 / 32
Tamil Nadu BJP Tamil Nadu
0 / 39
0 / 18
4 / 234
Telangana BJP Telangana
8 / 17
0 / 7
8 / 119
 Elected
3 / 34
Nominated
0 / 6
Tripura BJP Tripura
2 / 2
1 / 1
33 / 60
Uttar Pradesh BJP Uttar Pradesh
33 / 80
25 / 31
257 / 403
 Elected
71 / 90
Nominated
8 / 10
Uttarakhand BJP Uttarakhand
5 / 5
3 / 3
47 / 70
West Bengal BJP West Bengal
12 / 42
2 / 16
65 / 294
Territorial Units of the Bharatiya Janata Party
Andaman and Nicobar Islands BJP Andaman and Nicobar
1 / 1
Chandigarh BJP Chandigarh
0 / 1
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu BJP Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
1 / 2
Delhi BJP Delhi
7 / 7
0 / 3
48 / 70
Jammu and Kashmir BJP Jammu and Kashmir
2 / 5
0 / 4
(Vacant)
29 / 90
Ladakh BJP Ladakh
0 / 1
Lakshadweep BJP Lakshadweep
0 / 1
Puducherry BJP Puducherry
0 / 1
1 / 1
 Elected
6 / 30
Nominated
3 / 3

District Committee

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District Committee is an important grassroots level organisation of BJP with one President, Six Vice President and Four General Secretary and Six Secretaries. The District Committee has Other members also.

Mandal Comittee

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The Mandal Committee of BJP has one president with two general secretary and four secretaries

Frontal wings

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List of morchas (frontal wings) of the Bhartiya Janata Party
Morcha President Details
Mahila Morcha Vanathi Srinivasan Women wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Yuva Morcha Tejasvi Surya Youth wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Vidyarthi Parishad Rajsharan Shahi Student wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Kisan Sangh Rajkumar Chahar Farmer wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Mazdoor Sangh Hiranmany Pandya Labour wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
SC Morcha Lal Singh Arya Scheduled Caste wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
ST Morcha Samir Oraon Scheduled Tribe wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
OBC Morcha K. Laxman Other Backward Class wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Minority Morcha Jamal Siddiqui Minority wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
IT Cell Amit Malviya Social media wing of the Bharatiya Janata Pary.

International

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Overseas Friends of BJP are various voluntary organisations present in other foreign countries that operate under the foreign affairs department of the BJP.[18] These organisations were first launched in the year 1991, and ever since, have promoted the party and governments led by the party.[19] There are more than 25 countries including the USA, the UK, Canada, and Israel, where these volunteer organisations organise events and promotional campaigns on behalf of the Bharatiya Janata Party.[20][21][22]

Membership

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Any Indian citizen of the age of 18 years or above can become a member of the Party, provided that he is not a member of any other political party. The term of membership will ordinarily be of 6 years.[1] As of 2019, it is the world's largest political party in terms of primary membership.[4]

Membership oath

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I believe in Integral Humanism which is the basic philosophy of the Bharatiya Janata Party. I am committed to Nationalism and National Integration, Democracy, Gandhian Socialism, Positive Secularism, (Sarva Dharma Sama Bhava) and value-based politics. I subscribe to the concept of a secular state and nation not based on religion. I firmly believe that this task can be achieved by peaceful means alone. I do not observe or recognize untouchability in any shape or form. I am not a member of any other political party. I undertake to abide by the Constitution, Rules and Discipline of the Party.

— Bharatiya Janata Party membership oath[1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Currently the Central Election Committee has only 4 members other than the 11 members of the Parliamentary Board

Citations

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Bharatiya Janata Party Constitution". BJP official website. Bharatiya Janata Party. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 November 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  2. ^ Ram Madhav (6 April 2018). "Leader, cadre, parivar". indianexpress.com. Indian Express. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
  3. ^ Gyan Varma (2 December 2014). "BJP 2.0: A mass-based political party". livemint.com. Live Mint. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
  4. ^ a b "BJP inducts 7 crore new members, creates membership drive record". India Today. 29 August 2019. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  5. ^ a b "Departments | BJP". Archived from the original on 9 February 2022. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  6. ^ a b c d Swain 2001, pp. 71–104.
  7. ^ Verma, Gyan (28 September 2012). "BJP amends constitution to let Gadkari get second term". Business Standard India. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  8. ^ a b IANS (15 September 2017). "Amit Shah set to reconstitute BJP's decision making bodies". Financial Express. Retrieved 3 April 2020. According to the BJP constitution, the National Executive of the party constitutes the Parliamentary Board consisting of the party president and 10 others, including the leader of the party in Parliament, as members. The Chairman of the Board would be the President and one of the General Secretaries would be nominated by the BJP President to act as the board Secretary.
  9. ^ Asian News International (21 January 2020). "Nadda likely to add new members to BJP parliamentary board". Business Standard. The members of parliamentary board include Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Social Justie and Empowerment Minister Thawarchand Gehlot, General Secretary (Organisation) BL Santosh apart from Nadda.
  10. ^ a b PTI (26 August 2014). "Out with the old: Advani, MM Joshi, Vajpayee dropped from BJP's parl board". Rediff News. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  11. ^ "What is BJP's parliamentary board of which BSY is a member but Yogi is not?". India Today. 20 December 2022. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
  12. ^ "BJP rejigs its parliamentary board: Meet the new members". The Indian Express. 17 August 2022. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
  13. ^ Manish Anand (20 September 2019). "Ravi Shankar Prasad, Devendra Fadnavis likely in BJP Parliamentary Board". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 6 April 2020. Currently, there are three vacancies in the Parliamentary Board and eight in the CEC.
  14. ^ IANS (26 August 2014). "BJP names members of new central election committee". Business Standard. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  15. ^ Press Trust of India (10 March 2020). "BJP central election committee meets to select Rajya Sabha candidates". Business Standard.
  16. ^ PTI (16 January 2020). "BJP CEC meet to finalise candidates for Delhi assembly elections likely on Thursday". India Today.
  17. ^ FP Politics (19 March 2019). "BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain loses Bhagalpur ticket to JD(U) in Bihar despite being member of party's central election committee". Firstpost. Retrieved 1 April 2020. Shahnawaz's membership in the BJP's central election committee makes the situation ironic. He now finds himself in an awkward position, not being able to secure a seat for himself even as he sits on this all-important panel with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP chief Amit Shah and bigwigs like Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj, Nitin Gadkari and Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
  18. ^ "How BJP's overseas friends are working online and offline to ensure Modi 3.0". The Times of India. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  19. ^ Press Release, BJP (12 April 2004). "Overseas Friends of BJP Campaigns for BJP victory in Elections". Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  20. ^ "'Modi for 2024': Overseas Friends of BJP, Australia launches campaign to drum up support ahead of LS polls". The Economic Times. 24 March 2024. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  21. ^ Livemint (18 March 2024). "Overseas Friends of BJP holds car rally to support PM Modi for upcoming elections". Livemint. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  22. ^ Scroll Staff. "Explainer: Why the 'Overseas Friends of BJP' has registered as a foreign agent in the US". Scroll.in. Retrieved 12 October 2022.

Sources

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