BJP Appoints Nitin Nabin as New Working President, Marking a Generational Management Shift

The BJP’s parliamentary board on Sunday (December 14, 2025) notified the appointment of Bihar Minister and five-term MLA Nitin Nabin because the social gathering’s nationwide working president, ending months of suspense.

He’s anticipated to be formally elected the president in January 2026. The social gathering will endorse the election at its Nationwide Council assembly in April.

The incumbent nationwide president and Union Minister J.P. Nadda is at the moment on an extension. Mr. Nadda had served as working president for a couple of months below the then nationwide president Amit Shah, who grew to become the Union House Minister after the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

Congratulating Mr. Nabin, Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote in a publish on ‘X’, “Shri Nitin Nabin Ji has distinguished himself as a hard-working karyakarta (employee). He’s a younger and industrious chief with wealthy organisational expertise and has a powerful document as MLA in addition to minister in Bihar for a number of phrases. He has diligently labored to fulfil individuals’s aspirations. He’s identified for his humble nature and grounded working type. I’m assured that his vitality and dedication will strengthen our Social gathering in occasions to return. Congratulations to him on changing into the BJP Nationwide Working President.” 

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and the House Minister echoed these sentiments and known as Mr. Nabin to congratulate him.

Mr. Nabin has been related to the saffron social gathering for the final 20 years, serving for seven years as the president of the Bihar unit of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) and later as its nationwide common secretary. He gained his first Meeting election in 2006 from Patna (West) and has since remained undefeated from Bankipore. He at the moment holds the portfolios of regulation and justice, city growth and housing, and served as Highway Building Minister between 2021 and 2022.

BJP sources stated that the selection of Mr. Nabin, 45, displays the social gathering’s need for a generational shift in its management.

“Other than his youth, his deep involvement with the BJP—from its youth wing, the BJYM, to energetic roles in state-level politics—and his appointment because the co-in-charge of Meeting polls in Chhattisgarh in 2023, when the BJP pulled off a decisive victory towards the Congress, weighed in closely in his favour,” one other supply stated.

“Even a few days in the past, he was holding conferences with the Chattisgarh State unit on the Particular Intensive Revisions (SIR) train,” stated the supply.

“He was additionally the in-charge of the one roadshow attended by Prime Minister Modi through the 2025 Meeting polls in Bihar,” added the supply. Belonging to the Kayastha neighborhood, Mr Nabin’s father, late Nabin Kishore Prasad Sinha, was additionally a BJP MLA and regarded one of many veteran leaders instrumental within the social gathering’s rise within the State.

In the meantime, the delay within the election of the nationwide president was attributed to the variations between the nationwide management of the BJP and the RSS. “Through the Bihar elections, RSS joint common secretary, in-charge of coordination with the BJP, Arun Kumar, had met Nitin ji individually,” stated a supply, indicating that the RSS had additionally signed off on the selection.

BJP’s Patna workplace broke out in celebration after the announcement was made.

With Sunday’s announcement, the BJP is prone to see an overhaul of its nationwide workforce, with new common secretaries, secretaries and morcha prabharis to be appointed after the formal presidential election.

Reacting to his appointment, Mr. Nabin expressed his gratitude to the Prime Minister for the chance and the steerage offered by House Minister Amit Shah. “I additionally wish to thank the members of the Parliamentary board…. I will likely be working to strengthen the social gathering from the sales space to the nationwide degree. We will likely be working to strengthen the BJP with an method of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas. I additionally wish to thank all of the social gathering employees.” 

The quick problem earlier than Mr. Nabin can be the upcoming Meeting polls in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal, Assam and Puducherry, due early subsequent 12 months, with little time for him to settle into the position.