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President of the BJP
Extracted from the Wikipedia article List of presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
After the party's foundation in 1980, Atal Bihari Vajpayee became its first president. He later became the prime minister of India, the only BJP president to serve in that position to date. In 1986, Lal Krishna Advani was sworn in as the party president and has been the longest serving president over three different periods. As of 2025, 12 people have served as the president of the BJP, including Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah who have also served two terms. Nitin Nabin is the incumbent president, having been appointed on 20 January 2026.