Bharatiya Janata Party – Tamil Nadu

The Bharatiya Janata Party – Tamil Nadu (BJP Tamil Nadu) (தமிழ்நாடு பாரதிய ஜனதா கட்சி), also known as the Tamil Nadu BJP, is the affiliate of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The party is based in Chennai and is led by chair Nainar Nagendran.

Bharatiya Janata Party – Tamil Nadu பாரதிய ஜனதா கட்சி – தமிழ்நாடு
President	Nainar Nagendran
General Secretary	Rama Srinivasan
Treasurer	S. R. Sekhar
Founder	Atal Bihari Vajpayee L. K. Advani
Founded	6 April 1980 (45 years ago) (1980-04-06)
Headquarters	Kamalalayam, 19, Vaidyaraman Street, T. Nagar, Chennai-600017, Tamil Nadu, India
Youth wing	Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, Tamil Nadu
Women's wing	BJP Mahila Morcha, Tamil Nadu
Ideology	Integral humanism Social conservatism Economic nationalism Cultural nationalism Hindu nationalism
Colours	Saffron
Alliance	National Democratic Alliance
Seats in Lok Sabha	0 / 39
Seats in Rajya Sabha	0 / 18
Seats in Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly	4 / 234
Election symbol
Party flag
Website
BJP Tamil Nadu
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Electoral Performance

Lok Sabha Election

Year	Seats won	+/-	Outcome
1998	3 / 39	–	Government
1999	4 / 39	1
2004	0 / 39	4	Opposition
2009	0 / 39	–
2014	1 / 39	1	Government
2019	0 / 39	1
2024	0 / 39

Legislative Assembly Election

Year	Seats contested	Seats won	+/-	Voteshare (%)	+/- (%)	Outcome
1980	10	0 / 234	–	0.07%	New	None
1984	15	0 / 234	–	0.25%	0.18	None
1989	30	0 / 234	–	0.35%	0.1	None
1991	99	0 / 234	–	1.70%	1.35	None
1996	143	1 / 234	1	1.81%	0.11	None
2001	21	4 / 234	3	3.19%	1.38	None
2006	225	0 / 234	4	2.02%	1.17	None
2011	204	0 / 234	–	2.22%	0.2	None
2016	188	0 / 234	–	2.84%	0.62	None
2021	20	4 / 234	4	2.62%	0.22	None

Leadership

Elected members

Incumbent member(s) of Legislative Assembly

S.No.	Constituency		Name	Remarks	Win Margin in 2021
	#	Name
Erode District
01.	100	Modakkurichi	C. Saraswathi		281
Coimbatore District
02.	120	Coimbatore South	Vanathi Srinivasan		1,728
Tirunelveli District
03.	224	Tirunelveli	Nainar Nagendran		23,107
Kanyakumari District
04.	230	Nagercoil	M. R. Gandhi		11,669

Prominent Members

Vice Presidents of the state unit

• M. Chakravarthy
• V. P. Duraisamy, Former Member of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, Former Deputy Speaker (from DMK)
• K. S. Narendiran
• M. Muruganandam
• M. N. Raja
• A. R. Mahalakshmi
• P. Kanagasabapathi
• Puratchikavidhasan

General Secretaries of the state unit

• K. T. Raghavan
• G. K. Selvakumar
• R. Srinivasan
• Karu. Nagarajan

List of Presidents

S.No	Name	Tenure	Elected Year	Ref.
1	K. Narayan Rao	1980 – 1983	1980	-
2	K. N. Lakshmanan	1984 – 1989	1984	[1]
3	V. Vijayaraghavalu	1990 – 1993	1990	-
4	N. S. Chandra Bose	1993 – 1995	1993	-
(2)	K. N. Lakshmanan	1996 – 2000	1996	-
5	S. P. Kirubanidhi	6 May 2000 – 12 May 2003	2000	-
6	C. P. Radhakrishnan	12 May 2003 – 22 September 2006	2003	[2]
7	La Ganesan	22 September 2006 – 30 December 2009	2006	[3]
8	Pon Radhakrishnan	30 December 2009 – 27 May 2014	2009	[4]
			2012
9	Tamilisai Soundararajan	16 August 2014 – 1 September 2019	2014	[5]
			2016
10	L. Murugan	11 March 2020 – 7 July 2021	2020	[6]
11	K. Annamalai	8 July 2021 – 12 April 2025	2021	[7]
12	Nainar Nagendran	12 April 2025 – Incumbent	2025

See also

• Pattali Makkal Katchi
• Tamil Maanila Congress