India, Dec. 20 -- The BJP's Bihar unit is planning to accord a rousing welcome to Nitin Nabin on his first visit to the state capital next week after he assumed the charge of the national working president, a party functionary said here on Friday. State BJP president Sanjay Saraogi said Nabin would arrive in Patna on December 23.

"Our national working president will come to Patna next week for the first time after assuming the charge. All party workers are very excited to receive him. They will accord a warm welcome to him," Saraogi said.

Nabin, the fifth-term MLA from Bankipur assembly seat, was the state unit chief of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha and the party's in-charge for Chhattisgarh.

He was appointed as the BJP's national w...