Today i.e. on Monday, 45-year-old Nitin Nabin was elected unopposed as the National President of BJP, who is the youngest person ever to hold this post. Nabin, a five-time MLA from Bihar, emerged as the only candidate for the top party post, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior BJP leaders filing nomination papers in his support.
Nabin will be formally declared BJP president on Tuesday. He will replace JP Nadda, who has been holding the post of president for a long time since 2020.
Returning Officer of Presidential Elections. “I announce that only one name, the name of Shri Nitin Nabin, has been proposed for the post of National President of the Bharatiya Janata Party,” Laxman said in a statement.
Laxman said 37 sets of nomination papers were filed in favor of Nabeen for the post of BJP national president and all the nomination papers were found valid.
Apart from Prime Minister Modi, several other senior BJP leaders, including party chief JP Nadda and Union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari, were among those who proposed Nabin’s candidature for the post of BJP national president.
Of the 37 sets of nomination papers, 36 were filed by state units of the party and one set was submitted by the BJP Parliamentary Party.
Outgoing President Nadda, senior ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman, Kiren Rijiju, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Naib Saini, Pramod Sawant, Pema Khandu and Pushkar Singh Dhami were present on the occasion.
Laxman said that as per the scheduled schedule, the process of nomination of BJP national president was completed between 2 pm and 4 pm on Monday.
He said, “A total of 37 sets of nomination papers were received in favor of Shri Nitin Nabin for the post of National President. On scrutiny, all the nomination papers were found to be duly filled in the prescribed format and valid.”
He said the election process for the BJP national president was started after the election of presidents of 30 out of 36 states, which is much more than the minimum number required to complete the elections in 50 per cent of the states.
He said that notification of the schedule of programs was issued and the voter list was published on January 16, 2026.
Born in 1980 (the year BJP was founded), Nabeen entered politics in 2006 after the death of his father Naveen Kishore Prasad Sinha, who was a BJP MLA.
Naveen, who was the Minister of Law and Justice, Urban Development and Housing in the Bihar government, was appointed the working president of BJP on December 14.