Nitin Nabin elected unopposed as BJP president

Forty-five-year-old Nitin Nabin was on Monday elected unopposed as the BJP national president, the youngest ever to occupy the post as it seeks to further expand its influence in uncharted territories. Nabin, a five-term Bihar MLA and a former minister in the state, 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 will be formally declared as the BJP president on Tuesday. He will succeed J P Nadda, who has been at the helm for an extended period since 2020.
Nabin, who was the minister for law and justice, urban development and housing in the Bihar government, was appointed working president of the BJP on December 14.  K Laxman, the returning officer for the presidential election, said said 37 sets of nomination papers were filed in favour of Nabin as the BJP national president and all nomination papers were found to be valid. Besides Prime Minister Modi, several other senior BJP leaders including party chief JP Nadda, and Union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari were among the proposers of Nabin's candidature for the post of BJP national president.Of the 37 sets of nomination papers, 36 were filed by the state units of the party and one set was submitted by the BJP Parliamentary Party. He said the BJP national president's election process was initiated after the election of 30 state presidents out of 36 states, well above the required number for completing a minimum of 50 per cent of the states. He said the notification of the schedule of events was announced and the electoral roll was published on January 16, 2026.
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 was a BJP MLA. He has also served as the state president of the BJP Yuva Morcha (BJYM) in Bihar.