Nitin Nabin takes over as BJP president

• Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Nitin Nabin formally assumed charge as the party’s new national president in a function at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi on January 20.

• Nabin emerged as the sole candidate for the top party post with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior BJP leaders filing nomination papers in his support.

• Nabin was declared the BJP national president at the conclusion of the Sanghatan Parv, which saw elections to various party posts from booth level to the national level on January 19.

• Atal Bihari Vajpayee became the first BJP president after it was formed in 1980 and was succeeded by Lal Krishna Advani in 1986 who held the post for three terms.

• Others who have held the position include Murli Manohar Joshi, Kushabhau Thakre, Bangaru Laxman, Jana Krishnamurthi, Venkaiah Naidu, Rajnath Singh (twice), Nitin Gadkari and Amit Shah. J.P. Nadda assumed the party’s reins on January 20, 2020. 

• Nabin became the 12th president of the BJP succeeding Nadda.

Who is Nitin Nabin?

• At 45, Nabin is the youngest ever to occupy the top party post.

• Born in 1980, the year the BJP was founded, Nabin took the political plunge in 2006 after the death of his father Nabin Kishore Prasad Sinha, who also was a BJP MLA.

• Nabin, a five-term MLA from Bihar, was the minister for law and justice, urban development and housing in the Bihar government before he was appointed working president of the BJP on December 14.