Nitin Nabin elected unopposed as 13th BJP National President
The ruling BJP on Monday got its 12th president, with Bihar’s Nitin Nabin winning uncontested. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the proposers.
The formal announcement of Nabin’s election will take place on Tuesday, concluding the BJP organisational election process that commenced with the membership drive in November 2024.
Nabin, 45, will be the youngest BJP chief and the first to be born after the party was formed in 1980. He will replace BJP Himachal Pradesh veteran and Union Health Minister JP Nadda, who assumed charge in January 2020 and was on an extension for a year and a half.
The BJP president’s term, as mandated by the party constitution, is three years. The party’s parliamentary board, the highest decision-making body, can, however, recommend an extension of the term, as done earlier in the cases of Amit Shah and later Nadda.
Nabin, a five-term MLA from Bihar, cut his political teeth in RSS frontal organisations and was long associated with the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, the BJP’s youth wing. He entered politics after the demise of his father Naveen Kishore, who was a four-time MLA and a senior Bihar BJP leader.