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{{Infobox Indian political party
| colorcode ={{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}
| party_name = '''Bharatiya Janata Party (Karnataka)'''
| party_logo = File:Bharatiya Janata Party logo.svg
| abbreviation = [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
| president = [[Nalin Kumar Kateel]]
| general_secretary =[[Arun Singh (politician, born 1965)|Arun Singh]]
| ppchairman = [[Narendra Modi]]
| headquarters = BJP Bhawan, 11th Cross, Temple Street, [[Malleshwaram]], [[Bangalore]]-560003, [[Karnataka]]
| alliance = [[National Democratic Alliance]] (1998- present)
| ideology = {{ubl|[[Integral humanism (India)|Integral humanism]]|[[Social conservatism]]|[[Economic Liberalism]]|[[Cultural nationalism]]|[[Hindu nationalism]]}}
| youth = [[Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha|Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, Karnataka]]
| women = [[BJP Mahila Morcha|BJP Mahila Morcha, Karnataka]]
| colours = {{colour box|{{Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal/meta/color}}}} [[Saffron (color)|Saffron]]
| loksabha_seats = {{Composition bar|25|28|hex=#FF9900}} (as of [[2019 Indian general election in Karnataka|2019]])
| rajyasabha_seats = {{Composition bar|5|13|hex=#FF9900}}(as of [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Karnataka|2020]])
| state_seats_name = [[Karnataka Legislative Assembly]]
| state_seats = {{Composition bar|120|224|hex=#FF9933}}(as of [[2019 Karnataka Legislative Assembly by-elections|2019]])
| state2_seats_name = [[Karnataka Legislative Council]]
| state2_seats = {{Composition bar|31|75|hex=#FF9933}} (as of 2021)
| state3_seats_name = [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]]
| state3_seats = {{Composition bar|122|224|hex=#FF9933}} (as 2019)
| website = {{URL|http://karnataka.bjp.org/}}
| symbol = [[Nelumbo nucifera|Lotus]] [[File:BJP election symbol.png|130px]]
| spokesperson = [[Malavika Avinash]]
| leader = [[K. P. Nanjundi]] ([[Vice President]])
| founder =[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| foundation = {{start_date and years ago|df=y|p=y|1980|4|6|br=y}}
| flag = BJP flag.svg
| position = [[Right wing politics|Right wing]]
| rajyasabha_leader = [[K. C. Ramamurthy]], [[Nirmala Sitharaman]], [[Rajeev Chandrasekhar]], [[K. Narayan]], [[Eranna Kadadi]]
| split = [[Janata Party]]
| predecessor = {{bulleted list|[[Bharatiya Jan Sangh]] (1951–1977) |[[Janata Party]] (1977–1980)}}
| newspaper = [[Kamal Sandesh]]
| labour = [[Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh]]
| students = [[Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad|ABVP, Karnataka]]
| national = [[Bhartiya Janata Party]]
| eci = State Registered Party
|loksabha_leader =[[Prahlad Joshi]]}}
'''Bharatiya Janata Party''', or simply, '''BJP''' and '''Bhaajapa''' is the unit of [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] for the state of Karnataka and Its head office is situated at the BJP Bhavan, 11th Cross, Temple Street, [[Malleshwaram]], [[Bengaluru]], also The party appointed [[Nalin Kumar Kateel]] as the president of the BJP Karnataka, until 2023 after [[B. S. Yediyurappa]] took oath as the Chief Minister of Karnataka for the fourth time. Till date there has been 3 chief Ministers who has served Karnataka from the party.

==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.<ref name="Swain2001"/><ref name="Hardgrave2019">{{cite book|author=Robert L. Hardgrave|title=India Under Pressure: Prospects For Political Stability|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YRGjDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT137|date=13 March 2019|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-429-71661-4|page=137}}</ref> Out of its 110 candidates, 71 lost their deposits.<ref name="Swain2001"/> Along with the [[Andhra Pradesh]] legislative election there same year, this marked the first major performance of the party in southern India.<ref name="Swain2001">{{cite book|author=Pratap Chandra Swain|title=Bharatiya Janata Party: Profile and Performance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Gk1Wz4k_xUC|year=2001|publisher=APH Publishing|isbn=978-81-7648-257-8|pages=194, 199, 207}}</ref> Nine out of the 18 BJP legislators came from the coastal districts.<ref name="WallaceRoy2011"/> 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.<ref name="WallaceRoy2011"/> After the 1983 election the BJP offered some outside support to the Hedge government.<ref name="WallaceRoy2011"/>

The party suffered a set-back in the [[1985 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election]], only 2 of its 115 candidates were elected.<ref name="Swain2001"/> The party obtained 3.7% of the state-wide vote and 100 of its candidates lost their deposits.<ref name="Swain2001"/>

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.<ref name=a/> Ananth Kumar was the secretary of the Karnataka BJP unit 1987–1988.<ref name="Bhushan2003">{{cite book|author=Ravi Bhushan|title=Reference India: Biographical Notes about Men & Women of Achievement of Today & Tomorrow|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mWVmAAAAMAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Rifacimento International|page=59}}</ref> 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.<ref name=a>{{cite book|title=Business Standard Political Profiles of Cabals and Kings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qT7QvviGoJsC&pg=PA188|year=2009|publisher=Business Standard Books|isbn=978-81-905735-4-2|page=188}}</ref>
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.<ref name="Ramaswamy2007">{{cite book|author=Harish Ramaswamy|title=Karnataka Government and Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UM3LjKo8Uo8C&pg=PA254|year=2007|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|isbn=978-81-8069-397-7|pages=241, 254, 260}}</ref>

BJP obtained 28.8% of the votes in Karnataka in the [[1991 Indian general election]].<ref name="AdeneySaez2007"/> 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.<ref name="Ghosh1999">{{cite book|author=Partha Sarathy Ghosh|title=BJP and the Evolution of Hindu Nationalism: From Periphery to Centre|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sy-KAAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 1999|publisher=Manohar Publishers & Distributors|isbn=978-81-7304-253-9|page=111}}</ref> This time BJP had contested all 28 Lok Sabha seats in the state, winning four.<ref name="Bose2013"/> The growth of BJP vote in Karnataka was partially due to the [[Ram Janmabhoomi]] campaign and the nationalist discourse of the party.<ref name="Bose2013">{{cite book|author=Sumantra Bose|title=Transforming India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=reiwAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA71|date=16 September 2013|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-72819-6|page=71}}</ref>

BJP fielded 223 candidates in the [[1994 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election]].<ref name="Ramaswamy2007"/> Ahead of the election the party state unit published a 41-page manifesto, seeking to portray a pragmatic and populist approach of the party with a focus on socio-economic issues rather than [[communalism (South Asia)|communalist]] discourse.<ref name="Jaffrelot1999"/> After the 1994 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, BJP held the role as [[Leader of Opposition]] in the assembly for a brief period.<ref name="AdeneySaez2007"/> The electoral result had an important symbolic meaning for the BJP, who had begun to see Karnataka as its 'gateway' into south India.<ref name="Ghosh1999"/>

By the late 1990s, Karnataka was the sole state in [[southern India]] where BJP wasn't a marginal political phenomenon.<ref name="Jaffrelot1999">{{cite book|author=Christophe Jaffrelot|title=The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics: 1925 to the 1990s : Strategies of Identity-building, Implantation and Mobilisation (with Special Reference to Central India)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iVsfVOTUnYEC&pg=PA539|year=1999|publisher=Penguin Books India|isbn=978-0-14-024602-5|pages=439, 444–445, 539, 542}}</ref><ref name="HansenJaffrelot2001">{{cite book|author1=Thomas Blom Hansen|author2=Christophe Jaffrelot|title=The BJP and the compulsions of politics in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RfmKAAAAMAAJ|date=4 June 2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-565614-5|page=163}}</ref> During this period, the anti-reservation stance of BJP in response to the [[Mandal Commission]] had attracted support among higher castes in Karnataka, rather than [[Hindutva]] nationalism per se.<ref name="Jaffrelot1999"/> The 1999 split in the Janata Dal offered the BJP the possibility to do inroads among Lingayat voters.<ref name="WallaceRoy2011"/> However, as of the late 1990s the BJP Karnataka state organization remained weak, with the strength of the party concentrated in urban pockets and a few rural pockets ([[Coorg]] and the two coastal districts).<ref name="AdeneySaez2007"/> In the [[1998 Indian general election|1998 Lok Sabha parliamentary election]], BJP increased its number of seats in Karnataka from six to 13.<ref name="Krishna2011">{{cite book|author=Ananth V. Krishna|title=India Since Independence: Making Sense Of Indian Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8v7Vr2iQUHkC&pg=PA409|date=September 2011|publisher=Pearson Education India|isbn=978-81-317-3465-0|page=409}}</ref><ref name="Ahuja1998"/> BJP had contested the election in coalition with [[Lok Shakti]], through which BJP had contested 18 seats and Lok Shakti 10 seats.<ref name="Madras2003">{{cite book|author=University of Madras|title=Electoral politics and nation building in South Indian states|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D41uAAAAMAAJ|year=2003|publisher=University of Madras|page=157}}</ref><ref name="Ahuja1998">{{cite book|author=M. L. Ahuja|title=Electoral Politics and General Elections in India, 1952-1998|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CFCjniBF9s8C&pg=PA107|year=1998|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=978-81-7099-711-5|page=107}}</ref> With Lok Shakti's Hegde campaigning for the BJP, the party was somewhat able to portray a more moderate image and tone down its Hindutva profile.<ref name="Ahuja1998"/>

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)]].<ref name="AdeneySaez2007"/><ref name="DonigerNussbaum2015">{{cite book|author1=Wendy Doniger|author2=Martha C. Nussbaum|title=Pluralism and Democracy in India: Debating the Hindu Right|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dh1cBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT167|date=9 February 2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-938093-0|page=167}}</ref> Thus the party could not benefit from the anti-incumbency wave against the Janata Dal cabinet.<ref name="AdeneySaez2007"/> The tie-up with the Janata Dal (United) was unpopular among BJP workers in the state.<ref name="KadekodiKanbur2008"/> Following the 1999 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election the party obtained the Leader of Opposition role again.<ref name="AdeneySaez2007"/>

The more significant breakthrough of BJP as a major actor in Karnataka state politics came in 2004.<ref name="AdeneySaez2007">{{cite book|author1=Katharine Adeney|author2=Lawrence Saez|title=Coalition Politics and Hindu Nationalism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sll_AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT93|date=11 April 2007|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-23978-8|pages=92–94}}</ref> In the [[2004 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election]], the party won 71 out of 224 seats.<ref name="WallaceRoy2011"/> Whilst BJP remained organizationally weak in rural Karnataka, it managed to increase its share of vote by attracting [[Lingayat]] voters from parts of northern Karnataka.<ref name="AdeneySaez2007"/><ref name="WallaceRoy2011"/> In the [[2004 Indian general election|2004 Lok Sabha parliamentary election]], BJP won 18 seats from Karnataka.<ref name="WallaceRoy2011"/> BJP had become the largest party in the state assembly, but could not form a government as the [[Janata Dal (Secular)]] and the Congress Party formed a coalition.<ref name="AdeneySaez2007"/> The JD(S)-Congress coalition, however, suffered internal strife and in 2006 [[H.D. Deve Gowda|H.D Kumarswami]] struck a deal with BJP which stipulated that the post of Chief Minister would be given to BJP after a 20-month period.<ref name="WallaceRoy2011"/> In 2007, when the 20 months had passed, H.D Kumarswami opted to retain the position, sparking outcry and a wave of sympathy towards BJP and B. S. Yediyurappa.<ref name="WallaceRoy2011">{{cite book|author1=Paul Wallace|author2=Ramashray Roy|title=India's 2009 Elections: Coalition Politics, Party Competition and Congress Continuity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZ6HAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA282|date=5 May 2011|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-81-321-0774-3|pages=270, 272–273, 282}}</ref><ref name="Murali2017">{{cite book|author=Kanta Murali|title=Caste, Class and Capital|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RFLTDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA235|date=2 February 2017|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-15450-6|page=235}}</ref>

The strength of BJP in Karnataka state politics increased significantly between October 2007 and April 2009.<ref name="WallaceRoy2011"/> Ahead of the [[2008 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election]], BJP had emerged as the sole viable alternative to the Janata Dal (S) and the Congress Party in Karnataka state politics.<ref name="KadekodiKanbur2008"/> Following the formation of the BJP state government in 2008, there was a wave of attacks on Christian churches in Karnataka.<ref name="Basu2015"/> The [[National Commission for Minorities]] denounced the BJP state governments for inaction in preventing the attacks.<ref name="Basu2015">{{cite book|author=Amrita Basu|title=Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TTrjCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA49|date=30 June 2015|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-08963-1|pages=49, 108}}</ref> Under pressure from the central government, the BJP state government arrested a number of [[Shri Ram Sena]] leaders.<ref name="Basu2015"/>

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 [[2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election|2018 state elections]].<ref name="AndersenDamle2019">{{cite book|author1=Walter Andersen|author2=Shridhar D. Damle|title=Messengers of Hindu Nationalism: How the RSS Reshaped India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_jmdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA398|date=15 June 2019|publisher=Hurst|isbn=978-1-78738-288-6|page=398}}</ref> RSS brought in senior leaders from across the country for the state election campaign.<ref name="AndersenDamle2019"/> Reportedly some 50,000 RSS cadres campaigned for BJP, as well as some 3,000 [[Vishwa Hindu Parishad]] and [[Bajrang Dal]] cadres.<ref name="AndersenDamle2019"/> RSS mobilization for BJP in the electoral campaign was particularly strong in the coastal districts (a stronghold of RSS, but also an area with sizable Christian and Muslim populations).<ref name="AndersenDamle2019"/>

==Support base==
For many years, the BJP support base was mainly [[Brahmin]], but in later years expanded to include more [[Lingayat]]s (as well as some [[Vokkaliga]]s).<ref name="Ramaswamy2007"/><ref name="KadekodiKanbur2008">{{cite book|author1=Gopal K. Kadekodi|author2=S. M. Ravi Kanbur|author3=Vijayendra Rao|title=Development in Karnataka: Challenges of Governance, Equity, and Empowerment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YpjqJz_RbncC&pg=PA48|year=2008|publisher=Academic Foundation|isbn=978-81-7188-619-7|pages=48–49, 98}}</ref> Most of the party state leadership is either Lingayat or Brahmin.<ref name="KadekodiKanbur2008"/> By the 2000s, the party had sought support among other communities, such as the [[Other Backward Class|OBC]]s, [[Dalit]]s and Vokkaligas, utilizing communal issues as mobilizing factor (albeit with limited success).<ref name="KadekodiKanbur2008"/>

==[[Elections in Karnataka|Electoral history]]==

=== Legilsative Assembly elections ===
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! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Year
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Party leader
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Seats won
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Change in seats
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Percentage of votes
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Vote swing
!Outcome
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[1983 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election|1983]]
|[[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
|{{Composition bar|18|224|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}}}
|{{increase}} 18
|7.93%
|–
|Outside support for [[Janata Party|JP]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[1985 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election|1985]]
|[[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
|{{Composition bar|2|224|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}}}
|{{decrease}} 16
|3.88%
|{{decrease}} 4.05%
|Opposition
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[1989 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election|1989]]
|[[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
|{{Composition bar|4|224|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}}}
|{{increase}} 2
|4.14%
|{{increase}} 0.26%
|Opposition
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[1994 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election|1994]]
|[[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
|{{Composition bar|40|224|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}}}
|{{increase}} 36
|16.99%
|{{increase}} 12.85%
|Opposition
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[1999 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election|1999]]
|[[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
|{{Composition bar|44|224|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}}}
|{{increase}} 4
|20.69%
|{{increase}} 3.70%
|Opposition
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[2004 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election|2004]]
|[[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
|{{Composition bar|79|224|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}}}
|{{increase}} 35
|28.33%
|{{increase}} 7.64%
|Opposition, later Government
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[2008 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election|2008]]
|[[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
|{{Composition bar|110|224|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}}}
|{{increase}} 31
|33.86%
|{{increase}} 5.53%
|Government
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[2013 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election|2013]]
|[[Jagadish Shettar]]
|{{Composition bar|40|224|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}}}
|{{decrease}} 70
|19.89%
|{{decrease}} 13.97%
|Opposition
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election|2018]]
|[[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
|{{Composition bar|104|224|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}}}
|{{increase}} 64
|36.22%
|{{increase}} 16.33%
|Opposition, later Government
|}

=== Lok Sabha elections ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 2px #000000 solid; font-size: x-big; width=" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="1"
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Year
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Party leader
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Seats won
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Change in seats
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[1984 Indian general election|1984]]
|[[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
|{{Composition bar|0|28|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}}}
|{{steady}}
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[1989 Indian general election|1989]]
|[[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
|{{Composition bar|0|28|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}}}
|{{steady}}
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[1991 Indian general election|1991]]
|[[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
|{{Composition bar|4|28|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}}}
|{{increase}} 4
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[1996 Indian general election|1996]]
|[[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
|{{Composition bar|6|28|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}}}
|{{increase}} 2
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[1998 Indian general election|1998]]
|[[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
|{{Composition bar|13|28|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}}}
|{{increase}} 7
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[1999 Indian general election|1999]]
|[[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
|{{Composition bar|7|28|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}}}
|{{decrease}} 6
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[2004 Indian general election|2004]]
|[[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
|{{Composition bar|18|28|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}}}
|{{increase}} 11
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[2009 Indian general election|2009]]
|[[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
|{{Composition bar|19|28|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}}}
|{{increase}} 1
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[2014 Indian general election|2014]]
|[[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
|{{Composition bar|17|28|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}}}
|{{decrease}} 2
|-
|[[2019 Indian general election|2019]]
|[[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
|{{Composition bar|25|28|{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}}}
|{{increase}} 8
|}

==Leadership==
{{main|Category:Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Karnataka}}

[[S. Mallikarjunaiah]] was the Vice President of the BJP Karnataka state unit between 1980 and 1986.<ref name="Singh1996">{{cite book|author=H. D. Singh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YxuLAAAAMAAJ|title=543 faces of India: guide to 543 parliamentary constituencies|publisher=Newmen Publishers|year=1996|page=129}}</ref> He again held the post as BJP Karnataka state unit Vice President 1990–1991.<ref name="Singh1996"/>

[[Nalin Kumar Kateel]] was appointed as the president of the Karnataka state unit of BJP on August 20, 2019.<ref name="b">''Deccan Herald''. ''[https://www.deccanherald.com/state/nalin-kumar-kateel-new-bjp-state-president-755802.html Nalin Kumar Kateel new BJP state president]''</ref> 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.<ref name=b/> Soon after taking over as state unit president Kateel named Bhanuprakash and Nirmal Kumar Surana as Vice Presidents of the BJP state unit.<ref name="c">''The Hindu''. ''[https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/two-old-guards-back-as-bjp-karnataka-unit-vice-presidents/article29523140.ece Two old guards back as BJP Karnataka unit vice-presidents]''</ref> The two leaders, seen as part of the 'old guard' of the party, had been ousted from the state leadership in 2016.<ref name=c/>

===[[List of chief ministers of Karnataka|List of Chief Ministers]]===
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! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |No
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Name
! colspan="2" style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Term of Office
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Tenure
(in years and days)
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Assembly
|- style="text-align:center;"
| rowspan="2" |1
| rowspan="2" |[[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
|12 November 2007
|19 November 2007
|{{Ayd|12 november 2007|19 november 2007}}
|[[2004 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election|Twelfth]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
|30 May 2008
|4 August 2011
|{{Ayd|30 may 2008|4 august 2011}}
| rowspan="3" |[[2008 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election|Thirteenth]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
|2
|[[D. V. Sadananda Gowda]]
|5 August 2011
|11 July 2012
|{{Ayd|5 august 2011|11 july 2012}}
|- style="text-align:center;"
|3
|[[Jagadish Shettar]]
|12 July 2012
|12 May 2013
|{{Ayd|12 july 2012|12 may 2013}}
|- style="text-align:center;"
| rowspan="2" |(1)
| rowspan="2" |[[Atal Bihari Vajpayee|B. S. Yediyurappa]]
|17 May 2018
|23 May 2018
|{{Ayd|17 may 2018|23 may 2018}}
| rowspan="2" |[[2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election|Fifteenth]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
|26 July 2019
|Incumbent
|{{Ayd|26 july 2019}}
|}

===[[List of deputy chief ministers of Karnataka|List of Deputy Chief Ministers]]===
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! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |No
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Name
! colspan="2" style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Term of Office
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Tenure
(in years and days)
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |[[List of chief ministers of Karnataka|Chief Minister]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
|1
|[[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
|3 February 2006
|8 October 2007
|{{Ayd|3 february 2006|8 october 2007}}
|[[H. D. Kumaraswamy]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
| rowspan="2" |2
|[[K. S. Eshwarappa]]
| rowspan="2" |12 July 2012
| rowspan="2" |12 May 2013
| rowspan="2" |{{Ayd|12 july 2012|12 may 2013}}
| rowspan="2" |[[Jagadish Shettar]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[R. Ashoka]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
| rowspan="3" |3
|[[C. N. Ashwath Narayan]]
| rowspan="3" |20 August 2019
| rowspan="3" |Incumbent
| rowspan="3" |{{Ayd|20 august 2019|}}
| rowspan="3" |[[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[Laxman Savadi]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[Govind Karjol]]
|}

=== List of Presidents ===
{| class="sortable" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 2px #000000 solid; font-size: x-big; width="
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |No
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Party leader
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Period
! style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" |Duration
|- style="text-align:center;"
|1
|A. K. Subbaiah
|1980-83
|3 years
|- style="text-align:center;"
|2
|B. B.Shivappa
|1983-88
|5 years
|- style="text-align:center;"
|3
|[[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
|1988-91
|3 years
|-
|
|
|
|
|-
|
|
|
|
|-
|(3)
|[[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
|1998-99
|1 year
|- style="text-align:center;"
|4
|[[Ananth Kumar]]
|2003-04
|1 year
|- style="text-align:center;"
|5
|[[Jagadish Shettar]]
|2004-05
|1 year
|- style="text-align:center;"
|6
|[[D. V. Sadananda Gowda]]
|2006-10
|4 years
|- style="text-align:center;"
|7
|[[K. S. Eshwarappa]]
|2013-12
|3 years
|- style="text-align:center;"
|8
|[[Pralhad Joshi]]
|2013-16
|3 years
|- style="text-align:center;"
|(3)
|[[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
|2016-19
|3 years
|-
|9
|[[Nalin Kumar Kateel]]
|2019-present
|2 years
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Bharatiya Janata Party by state or union territory|Karnataka]]
[[Category:Political parties in Karnataka]]

Bharatiya Janata Party, Karnataka - Revision history

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