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Five-term MLA from Bihar Nitin Nabin, 45, is the caller nationalist president of the BJP, aft a day-long information process astatine the BJP headquarters, wherever helium was the lone campaigner successful the fray.
Declaring this, Rajya Sabha MP K Laxman, who had been functioning arsenic the Returning Officer for the full electoral process of electing a caller BJP president, said that 37 sets of information papers had been filed successful favour of Mr. Nabin and had been recovered valid astatine the extremity of the day. “Now, aft a play of withdrawal, successful my capableness of National Returning Officer, Sanghathan Parv, Bharatiya Janata Party, I hereby denote that lone 1 name, that of Shri Nitin Nabin, has been projected for the station of National President of the Bharatiya Janata Party,” Mr. Laxman said successful a statement.
The process to elite the nationalist president of the BJP was initiated aft the predetermination of authorities presidents of 30 authorities units, retired of 36, though the required fig to reason the nationalist president’s canvass was astir 50% of authorities units having completed their ain elections. Thus, the electoral assemblage was large.
Mr. Nabin had been declared the nationalist moving president of the BJP connected December 14th, aft a astir 18-month search, and his assignment to this station was meant to awesome that helium was the prime of the BJP precocious bid for the station of nationalist president arsenic well.
The notification of the docket for formally electing Mr. Nabin was issued connected January 16th, with the information process to beryllium completed betwixt 2 p.m. and 4 p.m., which was done connected Monday (January 19, 2026). In each 37 sets of information papers, including those that included Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s signature, isolated from Union Ministers J.P. Nadda, Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, among others, were filed. State units, with Chief Ministers successful tow, including U.P. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Arunachal Pradesh CM Pema Khandu, Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel, Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawan,t besides filed information papers successful favour of Mr. Nabin.
On scrutiny, arsenic per the connection released by Mr. Laxman, each sets of nominations were recovered to beryllium correctly filled, and with Mr. Nabin the lone campaigner successful the fray, helium was elected president. Mr Nabin is slated to formally instrumentality implicit the relation connected Tuesday (January 20).
As 1 of the youngest BJP presidents to date, Mr. Nabin is expected to midwife a generational displacement successful the BJP arsenic it looks guardant to the adjacent decennary oregon so. Hailing from Bihar, Mr. Nabin’s father, Nabin Kishore Prasad Sinha, had been a multi-term BJP MLA and had frankincense been associated with the enactment for immoderate time. He was connected the verge of completing his engineering grade from Birla Institute of Technology (Mesra) when, successful 2006, his begetter passed away, and helium was roped successful to contention the bypoll from his seat. Since then, Mr. Nabin has remained unbeaten arsenic an MLA, archetypal from Patna West, and aft delimitation from the Bankipur seat. He besides served arsenic curate for roads successful the Nitish Kumar Government betwixt August 2021 and 2022, arsenic curate for Urban Development, Housing and Law and Justice from 2024-2025.
Organisationally, helium held positions successful the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, the younker helping of the BJP, astatine the authorities and aboriginal astatine the nationalist level arsenic well. He has held complaint of States similar Chhattisgarh and Sikkim, where, particularly successful the former, helium was considered cardinal successful presumption of run issues and organisation cohesion that saw the BJP instrumentality to powerfulness aft a spread successful that authorities successful 2023.
BJP sources said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi volition beryllium contiguous arsenic Mr. Nabin formally takes implicit connected Tuesday (January 20). A gathering of the National Council of the BJP is besides apt to beryllium called soon to ratify the election.
