ISLAMABAD – After almost eight months of holding the additionalresponsibility of party chief, Amit Shah made way to a new chief, JagatPrakash Nadda, who was elected unopposed on Monday.
Nadda, who was the federal Health Minister during Modi’s first federalministry term, was dropped during the second term and made workingpresident of the party, before being elevated to head of the organization.
Nadda is often regarded as the third most important person in the nationalparty after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Shah.
On being elected as the new party president, Nadda said: “A simple workerlike me, who didn’t have a political background, who hails from a remoteplace in Himachal Pradesh (state) – if someone like me is being given thisresponsibility then it is the speciality[sic] of the BJP and it is possibleonly in the BJP.”
Modi and Shah congratulated the new party chief and hoped, the BJP would“scale newer heights during his Presidency”.
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Nadda was born on 2nd December in 1960 in Patna, the state capital ofBihar. He completed his Bachelor of Arts degree at Patna University andwent on to become a lawyer after graduating from Himachal PradeshUniversity. Inspired by Jayaprakash Narayan, an Indian Independenceactivist, Nadda joined student politics, becoming a member of AkhilBharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of Hindu nationalistRashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and later going on to become the NationalSecretary of the ABVP in 1989.
In 1991, Nadda was appointed the National President of the BJP Yuva Morchaand was re-elected in 1993.
