BJP likely to get new Working President as JP Nadda in Cabinet
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New Delhi: The BJP will pick a new working president as the incumbent national president JP Nadda is now part of the PM Modi’s cabinet, NDTV reported.
The decision on finding a new face will be taken after PM Modi returns from his Italy tour later this month.
The party's parliamentary board, which chooses the working president, can ask Nadda to continue in his post and appoint a working president despite its ‘one person one post’ principle.
The working president will work till the membership campaign and the organisational election by the year-end.
The BJP constitution directs the party to elect the national president only after the organisational elections are complete in 50 per cent of the states.
The new president will be elected in December-January as the membership campaign will set in July and continuing for about six months with the term of the elected president beginning from January 2025.
The working president can also be elected as full-time president, according to the report.
JP Nadda emerged as the working president in 2019, before he was formally elected in January 2020.
Amit Shah, who was leading the party in 2019, became the Home Minister in the second term of PM Modi's government and JP Nadda took over the responsibility of the party.
Nadda’s term ended in January this year, however he was given an extension till the end of June in view of the general elections.