PATNA, Dec. 15 -- Newly-appointed BJP national working president and Bihar minister Nitin Nabin on Monday took charge as the Bharatiya Janata Party's national working president in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the party's National President JP Nadda. Union Ministers Piyush Goyal, Delhi BJP Chief Virendraa Sachdeva and other party senior leaders were also present on the occasion.

Nabin was given a rousing welcome at the BJP headquarters in Delhi. He paid his tributes to Shyama Prasad Mukherjee and Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya at the party headquarters.

Before departing from Patna on Monday morning, the BJP leader said that his priority would be to strengthen the organisation and create a new leadership in the party. He...