The BJP on Friday put two Union Ministers in charge of its campaigns for the Delhi and Haryana assembly elections: Prakash Javadekar for Delhi and Narendra Singh Tomar for Haryana, as it prepared for a round of state polls.

Who will lead where

According to a party statement issued in New Delhi, senior leaders OP Mathur and Bhupinder Yadav were given charge of Jharkhand and Maharashtra respectively.

• Delhi: Prakash Javadekar, assisted by two Union Ministers, Nityanand Rai and Hardeep Singh Puri.
• Haryana: Narendra Singh Tomar.
• Jharkhand: OP Mathur.
• Maharashtra: Bhupinder Yadav, assisted by Keshav Prasad Maurya, Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and Laxman Sevadi of Karnataka.

The contests ahead

Haryana, Maharashtra and Jharkhand were expected to vote later that year, and Delhi early the next. The BJP was trying to hold on to power in the first three states, while in Delhi it aimed to unseat the Aam Aadmi Party government led by Arvind Kejriwal.

What happened next

• Haryana (2019): BJP 40, Congress 31, Jannayak Janta Party 10; Manohar Lal Khattar remained Chief Minister.
• Maharashtra (2019): BJP 105, Shiv Sena 56, NCP 54, Congress 44; after the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance broke, Uddhav Thackeray became Chief Minister in November 2019 with NCP and Congress support.
• Jharkhand (2019): JMM 30, BJP 25, Congress 16; Hemant Soren became Chief Minister.
• Delhi (2020): AAP 62, BJP 8; Arvind Kejriwal remained Chief Minister.

See also: Bharatiya Janata Party and state elections.

Originally published on 9 August 2019. Rewritten on 9 October 2026.

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