{"id":78413,"date":"2020-01-20T11:58:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T06:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=78413"},"modified":"2020-09-25T11:39:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T06:09:09","slug":"jp-nadda-likely-to-replace-amit-shah-as-the-new-bjp-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/jp-nadda-likely-to-replace-amit-shah-as-the-new-bjp-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"JP Nadda to be New BJP National President, Elected Unopposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Minister of\u00a0Health and Family Welfare Jagat Prakash Nadda today succeeded Home Minister Amit Shah as the new president of the ruling Bharatiya Janta Party(BJP). Last year Nadda was elected as the working president of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Nadda was elected unopposed as the National President at BJP&#8217;s New Delhi headquarters.<\/p>\n<p><code><\/code><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jagat Prakash Nadda elected unopposed as the National President of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ek5PlEZ2sE\">pic.twitter.com\/ek5PlEZ2sE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1219184872721248256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Senior BJP leader Radha Mohan Singh, who is the incharge of the organisational\u00a0election process, made the formal announcement at the party headquarters. Outgoing president and Home Minister Amit Shah was also present during the announcement.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The 59-year old Rajya Sabha member was handpicked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the top post after he was part of the council of ministers during the first tenure of the NDA-led government.<\/p>\n<p>Nadda started his political journey as a member of the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyapith Parishad (ABVP), an all India student organisation affiliated to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh(RSS). He later entered mainstream politics in 1993, as he became a Member of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly (MLA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Minister of\u00a0Health and Family Welfare Jagat Prakash Nadda will succeed Home Minister Amit Shah as the new president of the ruling Bharatiya Janta Party(BJP). Last year Nadda was elected as the working president of the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":69866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2019\/10\/25165839\/Nadda.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78413"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=78413"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=78413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->