Tribune News Service

Aditi Tandon

New Delhi, January 17

The demure but agency Jagat Prakash Nadda on Tuesday weathered the latest storm of Himachal Pradesh election loss to retain his place as BJP president with the social gathering’s nationwide government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi unanimously resolving to increase his tenure until June 2024 till after the Lok Sabha election that yr.

Rising via the ranks, Nadda, a former three-term Himachal Pradesh MLA, ex-state minister and former Union Cabinet minister, will oversee the 2024 General elections for the BJP which is eyeing a file third time period on the Centre with Narendra Modi as PM.

Today’s re-election spells an enormous accountability for Nadda, thought of a BJP hattrick on the centre would imply that PM Modi will likely be solely the second PM after late Jawahar Lal Nehru to steer their social gathering to a few consecutive phrases on the Centre.

That explains the historic significance of the subsequent basic election for the saffron social gathering.

Nadda now joins the league of LK Advani and Amit Shah to get a second tenure as BJP chief.

Importantly, Nadda’s continuation as BJP chief alerts his large clout within the social gathering the place PM and Shah name the pictures with PM properly generally known as a tough process grasp.

The indisputable fact that Nadda will get to remain BJP chief regardless of BJP loss in his own residence state of Himachal Pradesh means the social gathering values his striving throughout the nation with the continuing National Executive assembly additionally underlining the truth that Himachal was misplaced solely by a whisker — lower than 1 per cent vote margin.

Union residence minister Amit Shah whereas asserting the choice to grant Nadda an extension of tenure listed a number of electoral achievements underneath Nadda together with Haryana, UP, Uttarakhand, Assam, Manipur, Goa, Gujarat and the social gathering’s efficiency within the final Bihar elections, adopted by Maharashtra the place the BJP and Shiv Sena mixed had gained the earlier ballot, although Shiv Sena went on to ally with Congress and NCP to type the federal government.

Shah additionally talked about the truth that the BJP underneath Nadda was slowly rising in Telangana and had gone from 3 to 77 seats in West Bengal meeting in simply 5 years.

A two-term Rajya Sabha MP (2012 after which 2018), Nadda had just lately stated he was equally involved about elections in Gujarat and Himachal although he belonged to Himachal.

The social gathering right now rewarded him for a number of electoral wins capped by the 2022 historic Gujarat mandate for the BJP, with Himachal loss handled as an exception.

Party sources stated with age on his aspect Nadda, 62, had an extended option to go.