Patna: The Bharatiya Janata Party has named Nitin Nabin as its new national working president, handing a key organisational responsibility to a leader whose political career has been built in Bihar’s capital and within the party’s youth and state structures.
Nabin, a senior BJP figure and the minister for road construction in the Bihar government, replaces JP Nadda in the role, signalling a generational shift and a renewed emphasis on organisation-building as the party prepares for the next electoral cycle.
श्री नितिन नबीन जी ने एक कर्मठ कार्यकर्ता के रूप में अपनी विशिष्ट पहचान बनाई है। वे एक युवा और परिश्रमी नेता हैं, जिनके पास संगठन का अच्छा-खासा अनुभव है। बिहार में विधायक और मंत्री के रूप में उनका कार्य बहुत प्रभावी रहा है, साथ ही जनआकांक्षाओं को पूरा करने के लिए उन्होंने पूरे…
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) December 14, 2025
From Bankipur to the national stage
Born on May 23, 1980, in Patna, Nitin Nabin inherited a strong political legacy. His father, Naveen Kishore Prasad Sinha, was a veteran BJP leader and a former MLA from Bankipur, a constituency that has remained central to the family’s political identity. After his father’s death, Nabin entered electoral politics, winning the 2006 by-election from Patna West (now Bankipur).
He has since consolidated his position, winning assembly elections in 2010, 2015 and 2020, and again securing the seat in the 2025 Bihar assembly election. In the latest contest, he polled 98,299 votes, defeating the RJD’s Rekha Kumari by a margin of 51,936 votes, underlining his hold over the constituency.
#WATCH | Patna: Bihar Minister Nitin Nabin appointed as the BJP National Executive President; visuals from his residence, where people are congratulating him on the appointment pic.twitter.com/RiORoP1Jso
— ANI (@ANI) December 14, 2025
Cabinet roles and governance experience
Following the 2025 assembly elections, Nabin was inducted into the Nitish Kumar–Samrat Choudhary cabinet. He currently heads the road construction department, a portfolio he also held between 2021 and 2022. From 2024 to 2025, he served as minister for urban development and housing as well as law and justice, where colleagues credit him with pushing administrative reforms and urban infrastructure projects.
Organiser at heart
Beyond government, Nabin has built a reputation as an organisational hand within the BJP. He has served as national general secretary and Bihar state president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, roles that placed him in close contact with the party’s cadre base. He has also been the BJP’s in-charge for Sikkim and co-in-charge for Chhattisgarh, assignments where party leaders say he contributed to electoral strategy and ground mobilisation.
With his elevation as working president, the BJP has bet on a leader who blends electoral credibility, cabinet experience and organisational work—qualities the party hopes will strengthen its national machinery in the months ahead.
