Nitin Nabin
Nitin Nabin: From Bihar MLA to BJP No.2
New Delhi/Patna: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s Parliamentary Board appointed Bihar cabinet minister Nitin Nabin as national working president today evening with immediate effect, signalling a generational leadership refresh while J.P. Nadda remains the full national president.
The 45-year-old, holding a B.Com from Patna College, boasts assets around ₹10-15 crore per recent election affidavits and is married to Sunita Nabin; he is a five-time MLA from Patna’s Bankipur seat, winning by over 51,000 votes in 2025 after a 2006 by-election debut from Patna West.
Born in 1980 to senior BJP leader and ex-Jan Sangh associate Nabin Kishore Prasad Sinha, Nabin rose through Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha ranks before consolidating family turf with victories in 2010, 2015, 2020, and 2025.
In Nitish Kumar’s National Democratic Alliance (NDA) governments post-2020 and 2025, Nabin oversaw Road Construction with 100-day/one-year plans for roads, bridges, and Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana projects, plus expressways and monitoring amid opposition flak over 15 prior bridge collapses and urban delays. As Urban Development & Housing minister, he greenlit five-year satellite townships in districts like Sitamarhi, drainage/waste upgrades, smart city pushes, ₹12.18 crore Patna roadworks, 25 vending zones, and GIS for utilities aiming for four-hour statewide connectivity; earlier Law & Justice stints aided reforms. BJP’s Chhattisgarh in-charge role fueled electoral triumphs there.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauded his “organisational experience, humility, and hardworking karyakarta spirit,” with Nadda, Amit Shah, and Bihar BJP hailing the post-NDA poll win elevation. Nabin reacted: “When you work as a dedicated worker, such responsibilities come your way,” underscoring the grassroots ethos. No comment yet from Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, though opposition like the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has critiqued his infrastructure record without a formal response.
This makes Nabin BJP’s first working president from Bihar/eastern India, a “future-ready” successor prospect per analysts amid Nadda’s extended tenure under the amended party rules allowing Board-led decisions in crises, though no handover timeline exists given his central leadership ties. The move bolsters organisational heft for challenges ahead, blending youth with proven mobilisation.
Nadda’s presidency, unanimously elected in January 2020 after serving as working president since 2019, saw its initial three-year term extended first in January 2023 by the BJP national executive—on a proposal from Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and announced by Home Minister Amit Shah—to June 2024 for the Lok Sabha polls; a further extension came in February 2024 via the national council, approved unanimously amid his Union Health Minister role. These decisions followed the party’s constitution, where the Parliamentary Board holds apex authority for such extensions in emergencies, especially after a 2024 amendment proposed by general secretary Sunil Bansal and ratified at the national convention to allow flexibility without full organisational polls, bypassing the standard three-year limit and state-level elections under Article XXI.
– global Bihari bureau
