Former Union Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda was today handed over the reins of the BJP, but only as working president. Amit Shah remains in the saddle. A core member of Modi\u2019s Cabinet in the NDA-I and Shah\u2019s trusted aide, 59-year-old Nadda, will have to work in the shadow of the Home Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The choice to manage the party affairs fell on Nadda as he has vast organisational experience, having started his political journey from being the national chief of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad in 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nadda, who is equally eloquent in Hindi and English, was ABVP president from 1991 to 1994. Known for his oratory skills, he made his electoral debut in 1993 when he was elected to the Vidhan Sabha from Bilaspur in 1993, a feat he repeated in 1998. He was inducted as Minister for Health and Family Welfare Minister in the Dhumal ministry in 1998. He again won the elections in 2007 and was made Minister for Forests, a post he held till 2010. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2012. He was again elected to the Upper House in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, Nadda scripted BJP\u2019s stupendous win in Uttar Pradesh, working as a backroom leader. In 2010, he was picked by then BJP chief Nitin Gadkari to join his team. He was then made party\u2019s national general secretary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Born on December 2,1960, Nadda completed his graduation from Patna and holds a postgraduate degree in political science and LLB from Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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