Team News Riveting
New Delhi, January 17
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national executive today extended the term of President Jagat Prakash Nadda till June 2024.
Himachal Pradesh-born Jagat Prakash Nadda on Tuesday became the third incumbent BJP chief to get an extension of tenure after Lal Krishna Advani and Amit Shah.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah asserted that the party under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nadda will win the 2024 Lok Sabha polls with a bigger mandate than 2019. The general election is due in April-May next year.
Shah told reporters here that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh moved the proposal of extending Nadda’s tenure till June next year and the executive unanimously endorsed it. With Nadda set to lead the party during the Lok Sabha elections, he will be following the footsteps of his predecessor Shah, whose tenure was also extended so as to allow him to spearhead the organisation during the 2019 polls.
The minister lauded Nadda’s leadership, saying he connected the party organisation with the service of people during the COVID-19 outbreak. Shah also noted that the party won many state assembly polls under Nadda.
Shah said the extension was necessitated as the party was yet to conclude its membership campaign without which holding the president’s election is difficult.
“BJP is the most democratic party which has followed the tradition of elections from the booth to the national president’s post since Jan Sangh days,” Shah said.
