Nitin Nabin takes charge as BJP national working president

BJP on Monday continued with new appointments as the newly appointed national working president of the party, Nitin Nabin, took charge of his new responsibility. Nabin was also felicitated at the BJP headquarters in the presence of party president and Health Minister JP Nadda, Home Minister Amit Shah, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, among others.

The party also appointed Sanjay Saraogi as its Bihar unit president. Saraogi, 57, a former cabinet minister in the Bihar government, is an MLA from the Dharbhanga constituency. He succeeds Dilip Jaiswal, who was appointed to the post less than two years ago. Like Jaiswal, Saragoi is also a Vaishya, a caste group, which may not be politically dominant in Bihar, but forms the core support base of the BJP.

BJP also appointed Union Minister Piyush Goyal and Lok Sabha member Baijayant Panda as the party’s in-charge for assembly polls in Tamil Nadu and Assam, respectively. Union ministers Arjun Ram Meghwal and Muralidhar Mohol were made the parties' co-incharge for the assembly polls in Tamil Nadu, according to a notification issued by the BJP. Sunil Kumar Sharma, Leader of Opposition in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, and former Union minister Darshana Ben Jardosh have been appointed as the party’s co-incharge for the Assam assembly polls. Both Tamil Nadu and Assam will go to the polls next year.

Extending his hearty congratulations to Nabin on his assuming the charge of the key party post, Nadda said he is fully confident that under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s guidance, the working president will provide a new direction to the BJP’s journey of public service and nation-building. In his congratulatory message to Nabin, Shah said he is confident that under his leadership, the BJP will expand even further and he will take the policies of the Modi government and the party’s ideology to every individual in the country.

After Nabin officially took charge of his new responsibility, Shah, Nadda and Pradhan held a discussion with him.

Nabin, 45, a minister in the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government in Bihar, was appointed as the national working president of the BJP on Sunday and is likely to eventually succeed Nadda as its president, signalling a generational shift in the ruling party. The son of late BJP veteran and former MLA Nabin Kishore Prasad Sinha, Nabin is considered dynamic, ideologically rooted and deeply committed to the organisation, party leaders said. He also comes from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) background.