Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha

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Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha
President Tejasvi Surya
Founded1978
Headquarters6-A, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Marg, Mata Sundari Railway Colony, Mandi House, New Delhi 110002
Mother party Bharatiya Janata Party
Website http://bjym.org/

The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) (translation: Indian People's Youth Front) is the youth wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), one of the two major political parties in India, and formerly the youth wing of the dissolved Janata Party (1978-1980). It was founded in 1978, and its first national president was Kalraj Mishra. It is the second largest political youth organization in the world after Congress's youth organisation. [1]

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Organisation

Tejasvi Surya is the current president of BJYM since 2020 and the youngest Presidentin the history of National of BJYM. [2] Prominent leaders such as Kalraj Mishra, Pramod Mahajan, Rajnath Singh, G. Kishan Reddy, Jagat Prakash Nadda, Uma Bharti, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Dharmendra Pradhan, Anurag Thakur and Poonam Mahajan have served as national presidents of BJYM in the past. [3]

The National Body of BJYM consists of Tejasvi Surya, the BJYM President, Vice Presidents, General Secretaries, Secretaries, Social Media & IT incharges and National Executives Members. [4]

Activities

Attack on Delhi Chief Minister's house

On 30 March 2022, the official residence of Arvind Kejriwal, Chief Minister of Delhi, was attacked by members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia called the incident a conspiracy to murder Kejriwal. [5] [6] Tejasvi Surya, the national president of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM; the youth wing of the BJP) and a member of the Lok Sabha, had led a protest against Arvind Kejriwal with around 200 BJYM members. Several protesters were seen in CCTV footage breaking barriers in front of Kejriwal's residence and daubing red paint on the main gate. According to Delhi Police officials, the attackers also damaged a CCTV camera. Kejriwal's party, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), stated that he was not in the house at the time of the attack, but members of his family were present.

Saurabh Bhardwaj, an AAP member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly, filed a petition in the Delhi High Court seeking the formation of a special investigation team to carry out a "fair and time-bound investigation" into the incident. The petition asserted that the attack and vandalization appeared to have been carried out with the "tacit complicity" of Delhi police, and asked the court to issue directions to the Delhi Police and the Union Ministry of Home Affairs for ensuring the security of the chief minister and his residence. The court noted that the security was inadequate to control the crowd, and sought a status report of the police investigation into the incident within two weeks' time. [7]

Delhi Police arrested eight members of BJYM in connection with the incident. A local court remanded all the arrested men into judicial custody. According to the police, all the 20 accused identified were BJYM members.

List of presidents

#PortraitNameTenureAt Age of
1 The Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Shri Kalraj Mishra calling on the Vice President, Shri Mohd. Hamid Ansari, in New Delhi on November 13, 2015 (cropped).jpg Kalraj Mishra 1978198037
2 Satya Deo Singh.jpg Satya Deo Singh 1980198635
3 Pramod Mahajan 1986198837
4 Defence Minister Shri Rajnath Singh.jpg Rajnath Singh 1988199037
5 J.P. Nadda in New Delhi - 2018 (cropped).jpg Jagat Prakash Nadda 1990199430
6 Uma Bharati in 2014.jpg Uma Bharti 1994199735
7Ramashish Rai19972000
8 Shivraj Singh Chauhan.jpg Shivraj Singh Chouhan 2000200241
9 Shri G. Kishan Reddy, in New Delhi on August 09, 2019.jpg G. Kishan Reddy 2002200542
10 The Union Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan being greeted by the Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Dr. M.M. Kutty, in New Delhi on May 31, 2019 (cropped).jpg Dharmendra Pradhan 2005200736
11 Amit Thaker 20072010
12 Anurag Thakur.jpg Anurag Thakur 2010201636
13 Poonam Pramod Mahajan.jpg Poonam Mahajan 2016202036
14 Tejasvi Surya.jpg Tejasvi Surya 2020present30

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References

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  2. ↑ "President Profile | BJYM". www.bjym.org.
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  4. ↑ "National Executive Member | BJYM". bjym.org. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
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