JP Nadda Likely To Continue As BJP Chief Till Next General Election

New Delhi: Though Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) current president J.P. Nadda’s three-year term will end in January next year, the party top brass believes that a sense of organisational continuity will help it in a string of key assembly polls in the coming months before the general election.

Hence, Nadda is likely to continue as the BJP president at least till the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

The BJP parliamentary board, its apex body, is expected to endorse an extension for him before that.

With organisational polls in BJP state units yet to start, it is obvious that he will continue at the helm, they noted.

The party rules stipulate that organisational polls should be over in at least half of its state units before the election of its national president.

His predecessor Amit Shah also got an extension as the party wanted him to continue during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

It was only after the parliamentary elections were over that the organisational polls began and Nadda was elected unopposed with Shah joining the Union Cabinet during Narendra Modi’s second stint as the prime minister.

A Modi confidant who also shares warm ties with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leadership, he is seen to have maintained the organisational momentum and dynamism that the BJP was infused with under his predecessor.