Who is Nitin Nabin, BJP's new working president and face of its next-gen leadership?

Nitin Nabin (C) taking charge as BJP national working president in presence of JP Nadda (L) and Amit Shah (R). Photo: Nitin Nabin/X

Nabin, 45, assumed charge on Monday in the presence of BJP national president Jagat Prakash Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

His appointment comes at a significant moment for the BJP, which has recently secured a landslide victory in Bihar and is gearing up for a crucial round of Assembly elections in key states, including West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Assam.

 

Nitin Nabin meets BJP veteran LK Advani. Photo: BJP/Facebook

Who is Nitin Nabin?

He is the National Working President of the Bharatiya Janata Party, having taken charge in December 2025, succeeding J. P. Nadda.

• Nabin serves as a minister in the Government of Bihar, holding key portfolios such as Road Construction and earlier Urban Development and Housing and Law & Justice.
• He represents the Bankipur constituency in the Bihar Legislative Assembly and has been elected multiple times since first entering the assembly in 2006.
• Born on May 23, 1980, in Ranchi (then Bihar, now Jharkhand), he comes from a political family; his father, Nabin Kishore Prasad Sinha, was also a longtime BJP leader.
• Nabin entered active politics following his father’s death and won his first election in a 2006 by-election.
• Over the years, he has held various organisational and leadership roles within the BJP and its youth wing, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), and has been involved in party campaigns beyond Bihar.