India, Jan. 19 -- Five-time legislator from Bihar Nitin Nabin is set to be formally elected the national president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on December 20 after he emerged as the only candidate for the top party post on Monday.

Thirty-seven sets of nomination papers, each endorsed by top party leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, outgoing BJP president JP Nadda, and chief ministers of several states, such as Gujarat, Delhi, and Chhattisgarh, were filed in favour of Nabin as the BJP national president.

"On scrutiny, all sets of nomination papers were found to be duly-filled in the required format and were valid. Now, after the period of withdrawal, only one name, that of Nitin Nabin, has been proposed for the post ...