new delhi, patnaDecember 15, 2025 03:36 AM (IST)
Date first revealed: December 14, 2025 6:55 PM IST
The BJP’s parliamentary board on Sunday appointed five-term Bihar cupboard minister Nitin Navin because the social gathering’s nationwide working chairman. Well being Minister JP Nadda will proceed to be the nationwide chief of the BJP, however social gathering insiders mentioned Navin could possibly be chosen to succeed him in January, marking a generational change within the social gathering management. The choice will then should be authorised by the Bharatiya Janata Occasion’s Nationwide Council.
Navin is the youngest particular person to carry the workplace of a sitting president. If elected, the 45-year-old wouldn’t solely change into the primary Bharatiya Janata Occasion president of Bihar, but additionally the youngest. He’ll steer the social gathering forward of subsequent 12 months’s key meeting elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Assam. Nadda was additionally appointed working president after the 2019 parliamentary polls returned the Bharatiya Janata Occasion to energy and Amit Shah grew to become the Union House Minister. Nadda took over as social gathering president in early 2020 and his time period was set to finish in January 2023, however was prolonged till the 2024 Sabah state elections.
“Nitin Navin Jeeshri has emerged as a hard-working Karyakarta. He’s a younger and hard-working chief with wealthy organizational expertise and has a powerful monitor document as an MLA and as Bihar Minister for a number of phrases. He has labored onerous to appreciate folks’s aspirations. He’s recognized for his humble character and down-to-earth work model. I’m assured that his vitality and dedication will strengthen our social gathering within the years to come back.” Nationwide Working President of the BJP,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted on X.
Mr. Amit Shah, Protection Minister Rajnath Singh and Mr. Nadda additionally welcomed Mr. Navin’s appointment, and the House Minister praised Mr. Navin for fulfilling all of the duties given to him up to now. Shah, a five-time MLA and state minister, mentioned he has “wealthy expertise of working amongst folks”.
Mr Navin, who’s scheduled to go to the social gathering headquarters in Delhi on Monday, thanked Prime Minister Modi and Mr Nadda for the “confidence they’ve proven” in him. He additionally mentioned he had discovered from Shah’s “political acumen” and thanked Rajnath Singh for his “continued steerage as guardian.”
“I’ll totally contribute to strengthening the social gathering group from the sales space stage to the nationwide stage. Underneath the management of the social gathering’s highest management, I’ll take the Bharatiya Janata Occasion ahead in Bihar and throughout the nation… I’ll work to additional strengthen the Bharatiya Janata Occasion on the nationwide stage,” he mentioned on the social gathering workplace in Patna.
Organizational or authorities expertise
Nitin Navin, son of late MLA Navin Kishore Sinha, hails from the Kayastha neighborhood and is very regarded inside the social gathering for his organizational abilities. “Belonging to a impartial caste, he’s primarily a frontrunner of the Bharatiya Janata Occasion and his household has historically belonged to the social gathering. He’s additionally younger, has sturdy grassroots connections and has confirmed to be a superb administrator and organizer. This exhibits that the Bharatiya Janata Occasion is gearing up for a generational change inside the group,” mentioned a Union minister who requested anonymity.
BJP leaders mentioned Navin, who has been Bankipur MLA since 2010 and have become a cupboard minister for the primary time in 2021, enjoys the belief of each the chief minister and Shah. The RSS can be eager for the social gathering to advertise younger leaders and Navin could be a suitable alternative for the Sangh, a frontrunner mentioned.
BJP parliamentary chief Sanjay Jaiswal mentioned Navin has the right combination of organizational and ministerial expertise. “It’s a very proud second for Bihar. He’s younger and energetic and is a five-term MLA. He has expertise in group, helped the social gathering obtain an important victory in Chhattisgarh and is a minister in Bihar. He has completed an important job in campaigning and managing elections in Bihar this time,” Jaiswal, an MP from Pashim Champaran in Bihar, informed The Indian Categorical.
Senior BJP chief and Patna Sahib MP Ravi Shankar Prasad mentioned it was a “daring transfer” by the management to nominate “a confirmed employee because the (incumbent) president”. “This signifies a generational change within the social gathering and an important appreciation for the potential of a humble employee to rise to the highest. He’s additionally an affable chief,” Prasad informed The Indian Categorical.
A pacesetter near Navin mentioned: “He was most likely chosen over different skilled younger leaders due to his accessibility amongst rank-and-file employees, however it’s actually a leap ahead for him by all requirements.”
Whereas in faculty, Navin grew to become politically lively within the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a pupil wing of the Sangh. He was 25 years outdated when his father, who had gained 4 consecutive phrases from Patna West Meeting constituency beginning in 1995, handed away immediately. In response to social gathering leaders, Navin dropped out of Birla Institute of Know-how after his father’s dying and gained a by-election in Patna West. After demarcation was lifted in 2008, he moved to Bankipur, the place he has held since 2010.
In response to sources, his glorious organizational abilities have been evident from a really early stage. “When he was the Yuva Morcha social gathering’s nationwide basic secretary, he carried out yatras in Arunachal Pradesh and different northeastern states. Sikkim didn’t have a lot leeway for the social gathering, however he drew consideration to us and the BJP began successful elections there,” the chief mentioned, including that the central management took notice of him after his victory in Chhattisgarh in 2023, when he was the in-charge state.
Presently, Navin is the Highway Building Minister and City Growth and Housing Minister in Nitish Kumar’s authorities, and beforehand held the regulation and justice sector.
Nitish Kumar congratulated him and mentioned he was comfortable that “a resident of Bihar has been appointed because the Nationwide Working President of the Bharatiya Janata Occasion”. The CM known as his cupboard colleague a “devoted and disciplined politician” and hoped the “new accountability will additional strengthen the Bharatiya Janata Occasion”.
Bihar Deputy Minister and Bihar House Minister Samrat Chaudhary additionally congratulated Navin. “Your organizational expertise and work effectivity will inject new vitality into the social gathering and strengthen the employees,” he posted on X.
