Overview
- Returning officer K. Laxman officially declared the result and presented the election certificate at BJP headquarters in New Delhi, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and J. P. Nadda in attendance.
- Nabin becomes the BJP’s 12th national president at age 45, the youngest to hold the post.
- He was the sole candidate, with 37 valid nomination sets filed in his support, including one from the BJP Parliamentary Party and proposers such as Modi, Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari.
- The process followed the party’s Sangathan Parv schedule and the Jan. 16 publication of the electoral roll after state unit elections met the required threshold.
- Upcoming assembly polls in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and BJP-ruled Assam are widely viewed as the first major test of his leadership.