BJP begins Presidential election, Nitin Nabin next India’s President

NEW DELHI, Jan 19: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has formally initiated the election process for its next national president, with senior leaders filing nomination papers for Nitin Nabin, the 45-year-old national working president, at the party headquarters here on Monday. 

BJP President J.P. Nadda and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh submitted the first set of nomination papers to Returning Officer K. Laxman, in the presence of Home Minister Amit Shah, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and other prominent leaders including Dharmendra Pradhan, Bhupender Yadav and Kiren Rijiju.

Additional sets of nominations were subsequently presented by Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu and leaders from several states, underscoring broad support for Nabin.

The event witnessed the participation of Chief Ministers Yogi Adityanath (Uttar Pradesh), Pushkar Singh Dhami (Uttarakhand), Nayab Singh Saini (Haryana) and Pramod Sawant (Goa), alongside representatives from Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Assam, Jharkhand and other states.

Appointed national working president on December 14, 2025, Nabin is poised to become the BJP's 12th national president -- and potentially its youngest ever -- backed strongly by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Shah and the party's senior leadership.    �"Z NEWS