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The Congress connected Tuesday (January 20, 2026) mocked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) implicit the appointment of its caller nationalist president, Nitin Nabin, alleging that the ruling enactment had dispensed with immoderate existent electoral process portion formally describing the workout arsenic an election.
“Where is the election? Why bash you adjacent telephone it an election? You denote the president archetypal and past accidental determination volition beryllium an election, and past determination is nary election,” the Congress’s media and publicity section chairperson Pawan Khera said, reacting to the announcement astatine a property league successful New Delhi.
On Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remark that Mr. Nabin was his “boss” successful enactment matters, Mr. Khera likened the process to a tv world show, asking whether the BJP was “playing Bigg Boss”.
“They tin support playing games among themselves. Sometimes Mohan Bhagwat becomes someone’s boss, sometimes Modi becomes someone’s boss,” the Congress spokesperson said.
Mr. Khera besides took a excavation astatine Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, whom the Congress has been accusing of presiding implicit flawed electoral processes successful its alleged ‘vote chori’ (theft) campaign.
“Gyanesh Kumar wants to resign successful protest; helium has nary role. He can’t adjacent influence, helium can’t adjacent manipulate anything,” Mr. Khera said, successful a sarcastic remark aimed astatine the canvass authority.
Mr. Nabin, 45, was formally declared the BJP’s nationalist president by the party’s organisational returning serviceman K. Laxman. He succeeds elder BJP person and Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda to the post. The youngest idiosyncratic to caput the enactment since its founding successful 1980, Mr. Nabin had earlier resigned from his ministerial posts successful the Bihar Government aft being appointed BJP moving president successful December.
