Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Working President Nitin Navin has been elected as the new national president of the party. Mr. Navin is the youngest national president in the history of the party and the first BJP leader from Bihar to be appointed to this post.
- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Working President Nitin Navin has been elected as the new national president of the party. The party’s National Returning Officer Dr. K. Laxman announced the appointment of Mr. Navin as the party president at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi on 20 January, 2026 during the organizational festival and handed him the election certificate.
- Mr. Navin was honored by senior BJP leader and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, JP Nadda and Nitin Gadkari.
- Mr. Navin also remembered the former national presidents of the party and greeted the former presidents present on the occasion. He also recalled his past journey from becoming an MLA for the first time in 2006.
- Mr. Navin is the youngest national president in the history of the party and also the first BJP leader from Bihar to be appointed to this post. He currently represents the Bankipur Assembly constituency in Patna district and holds the portfolio of the Road Construction Department in the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government.
- With about two decades of organizational experience, Mr. Navin has played many important roles within the party, including Bihar president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha and BJP’s election in-charge for Chhattisgarh.
Early life
- He was born on 23 May, 1980 in Ranchi, Jharkhand, his father late Shri Navin Kishore Prasad Sinha was a senior BJP leader and a four-time member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly from Patna West, and his mother was late Smt. Meera Sinha.
- Shri Nitin Navin entered electoral politics at a young age and was first elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly from the Patna West Assembly constituency in 2006. Since 2010, he has been continuously elected from the Bankipur Assembly constituency, he won in 2010, 2015, 2020 and 2025, making him an MLA for five consecutive terms.
- He has also held the responsibility of important departments like Road Construction, Urban Development and Housing and Law as a cabinet minister in the Bihar government.
- Along with his legislative career, he has also played an important role in the party organization, where he has worked in leadership positions at the national and state levels. He has also been assigned important organizational responsibilities in states like Sikkim and Chhattisgarh.
Bharatiya Janata Party
- With the objective of making India a strong nation, the BJP was formed on 6 April, 1980 at a workers’ convention held at Kotla Maidan in New Delhi, where Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee was elected as the first president.
- From its very inception, the BJP, while being vocal on international, national and public interest issues, registered its strong participation in Indian democracy and gave new dimensions to Indian politics.
- The Bharatiya Janata Party played a leading role in making Indian politics, which was known as a one-party democratic system with the monopoly of the Congress, bipolar and in initiating the era of coalitions.
- However, the history of the Bharatiya Janata Party is linked to the Bharatiya Jana Sangh. Disturbed by ‘Nehruism’ and India’s silence on the atrocities being committed on Hindu minorities in Pakistan and Bangladesh, Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee resigned from the Nehru cabinet.
- As a result, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh was founded on 21 October, 1951 under the presidency of Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee at Raghomal Arya Kanya High School in Delhi.
- Under the leadership of Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh launched a movement on the issue of Kashmir and national integrity and opposed giving any kind of special status to Kashmir.
- The task of strengthening a new party fell on the shoulders of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay. The Bharatiya Jana Sangh also played an important role in the India-China war and strongly opposed Nehru’s policies on national security.
- In 1967, for the first time, under the leadership of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay, the long-standing monopoly of the Congress on Indian politics was broken, as a result of which the Congress was defeated in the assembly elections of many states.
- On 1 May, 1977, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh merged into the Janata Party in a convention of about 5000 representatives.
BJP government
- The BJP won 85 seats in the Lok Sabha in 1989, 120 in 1991 and 161 in 1996. The public support of the BJP was continuously increasing.
- Under the leadership of Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the BJP government took oath for the first time in the year 1996, but due to lack of adequate support this government lasted only 13 days.
- After this, in the 1998 general elections, the BJP won 182 seats and the National Democratic Alliance government under the leadership of Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee took oath.
- But due to the withdrawal of support by AIADMK under the leadership of Jayalalithaa, the government fell by one vote during the confidence motion in the Lok Sabha, behind which was that unethical conduct, in which the then Congress Chief Minister of Odisha Giridhar Gomang did not resign from the membership of the Lok Sabha even while holding office and voted against the government during the confidence motion.
- Due to this illegal and unethical conduct of the Congress, the country had to face general elections again. In 1999, the BJP again won 182 seats and the National Democratic Alliance got 306 seats. Once again, under the leadership of Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the BJP-led NDA government was formed.
- For 10 years the party played the active and excellent role of the opposition. In 2014, under the leadership of Shri Narendra Modi, for the first time a BJP government was formed in the country with a full majority, which today is rebuilding a glorious India with the proclamation of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’. Under the leadership of National President Shri Amit Shah, the BJP has become the world’s largest political party with about 11 crore members.
