Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha

Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha
भारतीय जनता युवा मोर्चा
Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha; भारतीय जनता युवा मोर्चा
President	Tejasvi Surya
Founded	1978
Headquarters	6-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]

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 allegedly 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

#	Name	Tenure		At Age of
1	Kalraj Mishra	1978	1980	37
2	Satya Deo Singh	1980	1986	35
3	Pramod Mahajan	1986	1988	37
4	Rajnath Singh	1988	1990	37
5	Jagat Prakash Nadda	1990	1994	30
6	Uma Bharti	1994	1997	35
7	Ramashish Rai	1997	2000	33
8	Shivraj Singh Chouhan	2000	2002	41
9	G. Kishan Reddy	2002	2005	42
10	Dharmendra Pradhan	2005	2007	36
11	Amit Thaker	2007	2010	36
12	Anurag Thakur	2010	2016	36
13	Poonam Mahajan	2016	2020	36
14	Tejasvi Surya	2020	present	30