Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party’s new national President Nitin Nabin took charge of his office at the party headquarters in the national capital on January 20, hours after his formal elevation to the post. The new BJP president was accompanied by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah to his office. Other senior leaders who flanked him included Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari and outgoing party president Jagat Prasad Nadda.
PM Modi also met the family members of Nitin Nabin briefly, congratulated them on his assuming the big role and also shared some light-hearted conversations. The elevation of 45-year-old Nitin Nabin as the BJP’s new national president marks a ‘novel’ era in the party and also a generational shift, reflecting its thrust on raising a new young leadership under his stewardship.
Earlier, addressing the BJP leaders and workers, PM Modi described Nitin Nabin as his ‘boss’ and himself as a mere party worker. “When it comes to the party affairs, then I am a worker, and Nitin Nabin is my boss,” he said amid loud cheers at the party headquarters. Nabin has “youth energy” as well as a “long experience in the organisation”, the Prime Minister further said, adding that these will be “very beneficial” for the party.
After being elected the new BJP National President, Nitin Nabin said that this day is “a moment of resolve” for him, as he is not just assuming a post but also the “ideology, traditions, and the responsibility of a nationalist movement of the party”.
He said, “We are associated with such a political party, where politics is not power, it is spiritual practice, not indulgence, but sacrifice. It is not luxury and comfort, it is austerity. Politics is not a position of authority; it is a responsibility.”