JP Nadda appointed BJP's working president, Amit Shah to remain party chief

Jagat Prakash Nadda will be the national working president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), its parliamentary board decided on Monday.

The party’s highest decision-making body asked the current party president, Amit Shah, to continue at the BJP’s helm until the completion of its membership drive and organisational polls.

Nadda’s elevation indicates that he could succeed Shah once the latter ends his term in December 2019. This is for the first time the BJP has named a working president since it was founded in 1980.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Shah, Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, and Thaawarchand Gehlot attended