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Bharatiya Janata Party, Karnataka. or simply Karnataka BJP, is the Karnataka state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Karnataka BJP is a Far-right wing Communal Hindutva party. [ 2 ] Karnataka BJP never got a magic number on its own in elections; however, it managed to form a government in the state on multiple occasions with the JDS post-poll ...
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was the first political party in India to acknowledge and use the power of social media in mobilising public opinion. The Twitter account for senior BJP leader and Prime Minister Narendra Modi (then Chief Minister of Gujarat) was created in 2009, while senior Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi waited until 2015 to come to that platform.
State/UT Portrait Name Took office Ref. Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Ajoy Bairagi 16 January 2020 (5 years, 47 days)[32]Chandigarh: Jatinder Pal Malhotra 13 October 2023
' Indian People's Party ', BJP) is a political party in India and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. [43] BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's Bharatiya Jana Sangh. [44] Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under the incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi. [45]
The Election Commission of India ran into a major embarrassment on 27 March 2018, when BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya and the Karnataka Congress' social media in-charge, Srivasta, tweeted the dates before they were officially released. [14] [15] However, both of them got the counting day incorrect in their tweets. Both the tweets were deleted ...
The BJP candidate from Bangalore North constituency won by a large margin in the April 2009 general elections, and BJP candidates won in 6 of 7 wards in the 2010 Municipal corporation elections. The 'Dhobi Ghat' in Malleswaram was set up in 2009 as the first modern dhobi ghat in both Bangalore and Karnataka. The initiative was spearheaded by ...
He also worked as a full-time party worker of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and served as the first president of BJP IT Cell (Karnataka Division). [7] He contested and won the 2009 Lok Sabha election from Chitradurga, Karnataka. In 2009, Swamy became the first BJP candidate to win the Chitradurga Lok Sabha constituency.
In the 2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly elections, Vijayendra led the BJP's campaign in the KR Pete constituency, a region traditionally dominated by Congress and JD(S). His strategic efforts resulted in a significant victory for K.C. Narayana Gowda, marking a key turning point for the BJP in a historically challenging district.