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PM Modi calls Nitin Nabin my boss as he takes over BJP leadership

by Trans World Features | @twfindia 20 Jan 2026, 06:58 am

New Delhi : Nitin Nabin has officially assumed charge as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president, becoming the youngest leader to head the country’s ruling party.

Nabin, 45, succeeds Union Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda, who took charge as BJP chief in 2020.

The new president was congratulated by senior BJP leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and others during a grand ceremony at BJP headquarters.

Addressing party workers, PM Modi said, “When it comes to party matters, I am a worker and Nitin Nabin-ji is my boss. Now Nitin Nabin-ji is the president of all of us, and his responsibility is not just to manage the BJP, but also to ensure coordination among all NDA allies.”

Who is Nitin Nabin?

He is the National Working President of the Bharatiya Janata Party, having taken charge in December 2025, succeeding J. P. Nadda.

• Nabin serves as a minister in the Government of Bihar, holding key portfolios such as Road Construction and earlier Urban Development and Housing and Law & Justice.
• He represents the Bankipur constituency in the Bihar Legislative Assembly and has been elected multiple times since first entering the assembly in 2006.
• Born on May 23, 1980, in Ranchi (then Bihar, now Jharkhand), he comes from a political family; his father, Nabin Kishore Prasad Sinha, was also a longtime BJP leader.
• Nabin entered active politics following his father’s death and won his first election in a 2006 by-election.
• Over the years, he has held various organisational and leadership roles within the BJP and its youth wing, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), and has been involved in party campaigns beyond Bihar.