New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: BJP working president JP Nadda is all set to take reins from Home Minister and party national president Amit Shah on Monday. Nadda, who filed filed his nomination for chief post on Monday morning, is expected to be elected to the post unopposed.
Top BJP leaders, including Union Ministers and various state Chief Ministers, are likely to arrive at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi where Nadda will file his nomination for the party’s top post.
Nadda, who has decades-long experience in the BJP, has long been seen as the choice of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah for the top party role.
On Sunday evening, Amit Shah also held a marathon of meeting with party’s top brass -- including Union Ministers, Chief Ministers and some members of National Executive and Parliamentary Board -- to formally apprise them of Nadda’s candidature.
Senior BJP leader Radha Mohan Singh, who is in charge of the party's organisational poll process, said that nominations for the national president's election will be filed on January 20, and a contest will take place the next day if required.
The BJP has the convention of electing its president with consensus and without any contest, and there is little possibility that it will be any other way this time.
The election of a new president will bring to end incumbent Shah's tenure of over five-and-a-half years during which the BJP expanded its footprints across the country like never before and enjoyed its best phase in electoral contests despite suffering a few setbacks in state polls.
After Shah joined the Modi government 2.0, the BJP had began the exercise for electing his successor as the party has the convention of 'one person, one post' and soon it appointed Nadda as party’s working president.
Nadda was also incharge of BJP's election campaign in the politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh. The BJP won 62 out of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh.
Nadda has also served as a cabinet minister from 1998 to 2003 -- in charge of health and then forest, environment and science minister in the government of Himachal Pradesh from 2008-2010.
He also has a strong RSS roots and it is known that Nadda has strong working relationship with PM Modi and Amit Shah.
(With PTI inputs)
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