{"id":313407,"date":"2019-06-17T18:19:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T18:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313407"},"modified":"2019-06-17T18:19:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T18:19:40","slug":"jp-nadda-appointed-as-bjp-working-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jp-nadda-appointed-as-bjp-working-president\/","title":{"rendered":"JP Nadda appointed as BJP Working President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-313408 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/jp-nadda-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/jp-nadda-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/jp-nadda-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/jp-nadda-696x462.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/jp-nadda-632x420.jpg 632w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/jp-nadda.jpg 846w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Union Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda has been made the working national president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The decision was taken at the BJP parliamentary board meeting on Monday evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Modi in a tweet said that he is confident that under the leadership of Amit Shah and JP Nadda, the BJP will continue winning people\u2019s trust.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI am confident that under the leadership of Shri @AmitShah and Shri @JPNadda, and powered by the hardwork of our Karyakartas, the BJP will continue winning people\u2019s trust and serving our society. We remain committed to building a strong, developed and inclusive India,\u201d Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Union Minister Rajnath Singh, who made the announcement, said the decision was taken after Shah expressed that he was not able to devote time to the party as he was also looking after the home ministry and the party president\u2019s post should be given to some other leader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe @BJP4India has won several elections under the leadership of party president Shri @AmitShah. After the Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi appointed him the Home Minister, Amitji himself had said that the responsibility of party president should be given to someone else,\u201d Rajnath said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAmit Shah will continue to be party chief and will likely see the party through assembly elections later this year,\u201d Rajnath said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cBJP Parliamentary board met today and it has selected Shri @JPNadda as the working president. He will remain the working president till the BJP\u2019s membership drive&amp; org. elections are over. Congratulations &amp; best wishes to Naddaji for shouldering this new responsibility,\u201d Rajnath added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Union Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda has been made the working national president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The decision was taken at the BJP parliamentary board meeting on Monday evening. Prime Minister Modi in a tweet said that he is confident that under the leadership of Amit Shah and JP Nadda, the BJP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":313408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[453,2657],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313409,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313407\/revisions\/313409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/313408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}