New Delhi, Dec. 15 -- Bihar cabinet minister Nitin Nabin was on Sunday appointed as the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) new working president. The decision was taken by the BJP Parliamentary Board, the party's highest decision-making body.

Nabin, party insiders told news agency PTI, is all set to succeed JP Nadda as a full-time president of the party and thus becoming one of the youngest to hold the position in the saffron party.

Though Nadda's term had ended before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, it was extended multiple times. BJP bylaws stipulated that before appointing the national president, the party had to hold elections in at least 50 per cent of the state units.

Nabin, 45, has become the BJP's youngest working president.

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