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BJP Nears Halfway Mark in State Unit Elections Ahead of National President Vote

Fourteen state chiefs have been installed, poll overseers are now in place in Maharashtra, Uttarakhand and West Bengal, with six more unit elections set to conclude by early July to trigger the national presidential vote.

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Overview

  • The BJP has filled 14 of its 37 state and UT unit chief posts and expects to announce six to seven more appointments, including Karnataka, imminently to reach the 19-unit threshold for electing its next national president.
  • Union ministers Kiren Rijiju, Harsh Malhotra and former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad have been named as state election officers for Maharashtra, Uttarakhand and West Bengal respectively to oversee organisational polls.
  • The Tripura state president election was paused after Chief Minister Manik Saha and national leaders clashed over the sole candidate nomination, delaying its internal poll schedule.
  • Central election officers have set target dates of July 1–2 for Uttarakhand, Telangana and Madhya Pradesh to complete their state president elections under supervised ballots.
  • Once internal polls conclude in over half of BJP’s 37 state and UT units, the party will formally proceed to elect J. P. Nadda’s successor, shaping strategy for the 2026 state elections and the 2029 Lok Sabha polls.