Bharatiya Janata Party, Karnataka
Bharatiya Janata Party, Karnataka ಭಾರತೀಯ ಜನತಾ ಪಕ್ಷ, ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ | |
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Abbreviation | BJP |
President | B. Y. Vijayendra
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Chairperson | |
Founder | Syama Prasad Mukherjee, Deendayal Upadhyaya, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Bengaluru-560003, Karnataka |
Colours | Saffron |
ECI Status | registered |
Seats in Lok Sabha | 26 / 28
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Seats in Rajya Sabha | 6 / 12
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Seats in Karnataka Legislative Assembly | 67 / 224
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Seats in Karnataka Legislative Council | 35 / 75
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Election symbol | |
Lotus | |
Party flag | |
Website | |
karnataka | |
The Bharatiya Janata Party, or simply, BJP Karnataka (BJP; [bʱaːɾət̪iːjə dʒənət̪aː paːrtiː] ⓘ; lit. 'Indian People's Party'), is the state unit of the
Till date 4 chief ministers from the party have served the state.[1]
Electoral history
BJP contested 110 seats in the January 1983 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, winning 18 seats and obtained 7.9% of the votes cast across the state.[2][3] Out of its 110 candidates, 71 lost their deposits.[2] Along with the Andhra Pradesh legislative election there same year, this marked the first major performance of the party in southern India.[2] Nine out of the 18 BJP legislators came from the coastal districts.[4] The influence of BJP in Karnataka was marked by its inability to mobilize support in rural areas, where the Janata Dal leader Ramakrishna Hegde and Abdul Nazir Sab (Hegde's Rural Development Minister) had built a strong network of local Janata Dal leaders through the panchayat system.[4] After the 1983 election the BJP offered some outside support to the Hegde government.[4]
The party suffered a set-back in the 1985 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, only 2 of its 115 candidates were elected.[2] The party obtained 3.7% of the state-wide vote and 100 of its candidates lost their deposits.[2] The BJP’s journey is one of evolution, from a nascent political force to a powerful institution, from a unifying voice to a catalyst for change.
The 1980s was characterized by internal strife in the BJP Karnataka unit, as the followers of Ananth Kumar and V. Dhananjay Kumar combatted each other.[5] Ananth Kumar was the secretary of the Karnataka BJP unit 1987–1988.[6] In 1988, trying to overcome the split, B. S. Yediyurappa was chosen as the consensus candidate for the presidency of the BJP Karnataka state unit.[5] BJP contested 119 seats in the 1989 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, winning four seats and obtaining 4.13% of the votes cast across the state.[7]
BJP obtained 28.8% of the votes in Karnataka in the 1991 Indian general election.[8] This result marked a sharp increase from the 2.5% of the votes that the party had received in the 1989 Indian general election in Karnataka.[9] This time BJP had contested all 28 Lok Sabha seats in the state, winning four.[10] The growth of BJP vote in Karnataka was partially due to the Ram Janmabhoomi campaign and the nationalist discourse of the party.[10]
BJP fielded 223 candidates in the
By the late 1990s, Karnataka was the sole state in
Just before the 1999 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, the BJP national leadership forced its Karnataka branch into an alliance with the then governing Janata Dal (United).[8][16] Thus the party could not benefit from the anti-incumbency wave against the Janata Dal cabinet.[8] The tie-up with the Janata Dal (United) was unpopular among BJP workers in the state.[17] Following the 1999 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election the party obtained the Leader of Opposition role again.[8]
The more significant breakthrough of BJP as a major actor in Karnataka state politics came in 2004.
The strength of BJP in Karnataka state politics increased significantly between October 2007 and April 2009.
In the 2013 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, the BJP fell to third place in the state behind the Indian National Congress and Janata Dal (Secular). While the INC won a majority in the Legislative Assembly with 122 seats, the BJP fell to 40 seats.
The decision of the Congress state government to grant minority status to the Lingayats prompted the RSS (a move seen by RSS as "an attempt to divide the Hindus") to take a more active role in supporting the BJP in the
Support base
For many years, the BJP support base was mainly
Electoral history
Legislative Assembly elections
Year | Seats won | +/- | Voteshare (%) | +/- (%) | Outcome |
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1983 | 18 / 224
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18 | 7.93% | – | Outside support for JP |
1985 | 2 / 224
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16 | 3.88% | 4.05% | Opposition |
1989 | 4 / 224
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2 | 4.14% | 0.26% | Opposition |
1994 | 40 / 224
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36 | 16.99% | 12.85% | Opposition |
1999 | 44 / 224
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4 | 20.69% | 3.70% | Opposition |
2004 | 79 / 224
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35 | 28.33% | 7.64% | Opposition, later Government |
2008 | 110 / 224
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31 | 33.86% | 5.53% | Government |
2013 | 40 / 224
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70 | 19.89% | 13.97% | Opposition |
2018 | 104 / 224
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64 | 36.22% | 16.33% | Opposition, later Government |
2023 | 66 / 224
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38 | 36.00% | 0.22% | Opposition |
Lok Sabha elections
Year | Seats won | +/- |
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1984 | 0 / 28
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1989 | 0 / 28
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1991 | 4 / 28
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4 |
1996 | 6 / 28
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2 |
1998 | 13 / 28
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7 |
1999 | 7 / 28
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6 |
2004 | 18 / 28
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11 |
2009 | 19 / 28
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1 |
2014 | 17 / 28
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2 |
2019 | 25 / 28
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8 |
Leadership
S. Mallikarjunaiah was the vice president of the BJP Karnataka state unit between 1980 and 1986.[22] He again held the post as BJP Karnataka state unit vice president 1990–1991.[22]
Nalin Kumar Kateel was appointed as the president of the Karnataka state unit of BJP on August 20, 2019.[23] Reportedly the outgoing president B. S. Yediyurappa had favoured Arvind Limbavali for the post, but the National General Secretary (Organisation) of the party B.L. Santosh had favoured Kateel due to his credentials as a RSS loyalist.[23] Soon after taking over as state unit president Kateel named Bhanuprakash and Nirmal Kumar Surana as Vice Presidents of the BJP state unit.[24] The two leaders, seen as part of the 'old guard' of the party, had been ousted from the state leadership in 2016.[24]
List of chief ministers
No | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term of office | Assembly | ||
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1 | B. S. Yediyurappa | Shikaripura | 12 November 2007 | 19 November 2007 | 7 days | 12th | |
30 May 2008 | 4 August 2011 | 3 years, 66 days | 13th | ||||
2 | D. V. Sadananda Gowda
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MLC | 5 August 2011 | 11 July 2012 | 341 days | ||
3 | Jagadish Shettar | Hubli-Dharwad Central | 12 July 2012 | 12 May 2013 | 304 days | ||
(1) | B. S. Yediyurappa | Shikaripura | 17 May 2018 | 23 May 2018 | 6 days | 15th | |
26 July 2019 | 28 July 2021 | 2 years, 2 days (total 5 years, 81 days) | |||||
4 | Basavaraj Bommai | Shiggaon | 28 July 2021 | 15 May 2023 | 1 year, 291 days |
List of deputy chief ministers
No | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term of office | Chief Minister | ||
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1 | B. S. Yediyurappa | Shikaripura | 3 February 2006 | 8 October 2007 | 1 year, 247 days | H. D. Kumaraswamy | |
2 | K. S. Eshwarappa | Shimoga | 12 July 2012 | 12 May 2013 | 304 days | Jagadish Shettar | |
R. Ashoka | Padmanaba Nagar
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3 | C. N. Ashwath Narayan | Malleshwaram | 20 August 2019 | 26 July 2021 | 1 year, 340 days | B. S. Yediyurappa | |
Laxman Savadi | MLC | ||||||
Govind Karjol | Mudhole |
Opposition leaders in Legislative Assembly
No | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term of office | Assembly | Chief Minister | ||
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1 | B. S. Yediyurappa | Shikaripura | 27 December 1994 | 18 December 1996 | 1 year, 357 days | 10th | H. D. Deve Gowda J. H. Patel | |
2 | Jagadish Shettar | Hubli-Dharwad Central | 26 October 1999 | 23 February 2004 | 4 years, 120 days | 11th | S. M. Krishna | |
(1) | B. S. Yediyurappa | Shikaripura | 9 June 2004 | 2 February 2006 | 1 year, 238 days | 12th | Dharam Singh | |
(2) | Jagadish Shettar | Hubli-Dharwad Central | 23 January 2014 | 17 May 2018 | 4 years, 120 days | 14th | Siddaramaiah | |
(1) | B. S. Yediyurappa | Shikaripura | 25 May 2018 | 26 July 2019 | 1 year, 62 days | 15th | H. D. Kumaraswamy | |
Interim | Basavaraj Bommai | Shiggaon | 4 July 2023 | 17 November 2023 | 136 days | |||
3 | R. Ashoka | Padmanaba Nagar
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17 November 2023 | incumbent | 159 days | 16th | Siddaramaiah |
Opposition leaders in Legislative Council
No | Portrait | Name | Term of office | Chief Minister | ||
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1 | D. H. Shankaramurthy | 8 July 2002 | 16 June 2004 | 3 years, 138 days | S. M. Krishna | |
16 June 2004 | 23 November 2005 | Dharam Singh | ||||
2 | D. V. Sadananda Gowda
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17 May 2013 | 24 May 2014 | 1 year, 7 days | Siddaramaiah | |
3 | K. S. Eshwarappa | 13 July 2014 | 17 May 2018 | 3 years, 308 days | ||
4 | Kota Srinivas Poojary | 2 July 2018 | 26 July 2019 | 1 year, 24 days | H. D. Kumaraswamy | |
25 December 2023 | present | 121 days | Siddaramaiah |
List of presidents
No | Name | Period | ||
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1 | A.K.Subbaiah
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1980 | 1983 | 3 years |
2 | B. B. Shivappa | 1983 | 1988 | 5 years |
3 | B. S. Yediyurappa | 1988 | 1991 | 3 years |
4 | K.S. Eshwarappa
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1993 | 1998 | 5 years |
(3) | B. S. Yediyurappa | 1998 | 1999 | 1 year |
5 | Basavaraj Patil Sedam | 2000 | 2003 | 3 years |
6 | Ananth Kumar | 2003 | 2004 | 1 year |
7 | Jagadish Shettar | 2004 | 2006 | 2 years |
8 | D. V. Sadananda Gowda
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2006 | 2010 | 4 years |
(4) | K. S. Eshwarappa | 28-Jan-2010 | 21-Mar-2013 | 3 years, 52 days |
9 | Pralhad Joshi | 21-Mar-2013 | 8-Apr-2016 | 3 years, 18 days |
(3) | B. S. Yediyurappa | 8-Apr-2016 | 20-Aug-2019 | 3 years, 134 days |
10 | Nalin Kumar Kateel | 20-Aug-2019 | 10-Nov-2023 | 4 years, 82 days |
11 | B. Y. Vijayendra | 10-Nov-2023 | present | 166 days |
See also
- Bharatiya Janata Party, Gujarat
- Bharatiya Janata Party, Maharashtra
- Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal
- Bharatiya Janata Party, Tamil Nadu
- Bharatiya Janata Party, Uttar Pradesh
- Bharatiya Janata Party, Madhya Pradesh
- State units of the Bharatiya Janata Party
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