“A complete of 37 nomination papers in favor of Shri Nitin Navin have been obtained,” Okay. Laxman, the Bharatiya Janata Celebration’s election officer and returnee, mentioned in a press release, including that after the withdrawal interval, “just one candidate, Shri Nitin Navin, has been proposed for the submit of nationwide president of the Bharatiya Janata Celebration.”
The method for the nationwide BJP presidential election started lately after appointing presidents for 30 of the occasion’s 36 organizational states, considerably exceeding the occasion’s requirement that not less than half of the state presidents be elected.
Nabin, 45, will now change into the occasion’s youngest chief. He’s poised to deal with numerous challenges that might reshape nationwide politics throughout his three-year time period, beginning with key upcoming Lok Sabha elections in states equivalent to West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Assam.
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The transfer by the Bharatiya Janata Celebration excessive command final month to nominate Navin, a five-time Bihar MLA and former minister, because the occasion’s nationwide working consultant comes after Ravi Shankar Prasad, Radha Mohan Singh and Rajiv Pratap Rudy. Even occasion leaders and staff in Bihar had been shocked, as he was not even thought-about by senior occasion leaders equivalent to Mr. Mikal (each MPs), deputy CM Samrat Chaudhary, and youthful leaders equivalent to Samrat Chaudhary. vijay kumar sinha.
This was mirrored when the spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Celebration in Bihar first introduced the information of Navin’s elevation to the place of senior nationwide chief. Senior leaders reprimanded the press secretary. Nonetheless, after some time, the physique language of the chief who obtained the message immediately modified. He who was simply ‘Nitin’ to many has now change into ‘Adhyaksh ji’ to everybody together with his seniors.
Navin belongs to the higher caste Kayastha group, which makes up lower than 1% of Bihar’s inhabitants.
Nobody would have given him an opportunity to get the occasion’s prime submit as a result of state’s dominant OBC-centric politics. However Navin’s elevation can be seen by Bihar BJP insiders as a part of the occasion management’s long-term plan to construct an essential face within the state.
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Navin’s elevation indicators a generational change within the Bharatiya Janata Celebration, making him the primary chief from Bihar and the primary Kayastha Celebration chief to carry the highest submit within the group.
Navin, who began his political profession with the RSS’s pupil wing ABVP, displayed his organizational abilities throughout his tenure because the nationwide normal secretary of the BJP’s youth wing BJYM.
Navin, the son of the late former Bharatiya Janata Celebration MP Navin Kishore Sinha, is taken into account to have sound organizational and administration abilities.
Navin is known to have impressed the Bharatiya Janata Celebration management as co-chief of the occasion throughout its shock victory over the incumbent Bhupesh Baghel-led Congress within the November 2023 Chhattisgarh meeting elections.
The next 12 months, he was appointed by the Bharatiya Janata Celebration to take cost of the Lok Sabha elections in Chhattisgarh, the place the occasion received a landslide victory. In July 2024, he was nominated by the occasion in control of the state. “Navin performed a number one function in strategizing and campaigning for these polls, which helped the occasion win the elections easily,” Chhattisgarh BJP chief mentioned.
Simply two weeks earlier than the 2025 Bihar Meeting elections, on October 25, the primary day of the four-day chaat competition, Union House Minister Amit Shah visited Navin’s home in Patna on his solution to vote. On the time, the potential deeper implications of Shah’s go to to a comparatively unknown Bharatiya Janata Celebration minister had been unknown to anybody concerned within the state occasion.
Later, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Patna on his solution to attend an election rally, a number of Bharatiya Janata Celebration leaders, together with Navin, lined up on the airport to welcome him. After acknowledging the greetings of some occasion leaders on the head of the procession, the Prime Minister stopped the place Navin was standing and exchanged phrases with him. Even at the moment, it was not extensively learn. Mr. Navin additionally performed a significant function in organizing Mr. Modi’s rally at Madhubani in Mithilanchal district.
Navin, who received the Bankipur seat for a fourth consecutive time period by a margin of about 52,000 votes, after the NDA received the final elections by a landslide, was assigned the duty of overseeing the preparations for Nitish Kumar’s file tenth CM oath at Gandhi Maidan in Patna. Some BJP leaders felt that he may change into second deputy CM within the new NDA ministry, changing his occasion colleague Vijay Sinha, who additionally hails from an higher caste. However then the Bharatiya Janata Celebration made a shock by appointing him to switch JP Nadda as occasion president.
Navin’s Problem
Navin is a modest and “non-controversial” chief who carries no baggage and is approachable with rank-and-file occasion staff. He’s identified to have the belief of each PM Modi and PM Shah.
Celebration sources say Navin additionally has the blessings of the RSS, which was eager for the Bharatiya Janata Celebration to advertise a younger chief to the highest. One in all Navin’s key duties, sources mentioned, is to enhance relations and coordination between the Bharatiya Janata Celebration and its ideological supply, the RSS.
Navin’s rapid job is to guide the Bharatiya Janata Celebration into the subsequent elections, after which he’s anticipated to arrange the occasion for the 2029 Indian parliamentary elections.
His key challenges for 2029 will embrace the difficulty of introducing reservations for girls within the Lok Sabha and state assemblies, steering the fraught delimitation train following the 2027 census and caste depend, and advancing the Modi authorities’s One Nation, One Election (ONOE) initiative.
Amid the altering political panorama, occasion leaders mentioned Mr. Navin should present “skillful management and consensus-building” whereas additionally getting ready the subsequent era of BJP leaders to tackle a spread of adverse challenges.
