India, Dec. 21 -- No one in their wildest dreams would have ever thought that Nitin Nabin, a five-time MLA and a State Minister of Bihar, would ultimately emerge as the ultimate choice for the presidentship of the BJP. In fact, his elevation as the Working President, a pre-cursor perhaps to his replacing JP Nadda for the top post, is a reflection of the BJP's robust organizational network where even unlikely workers can get an opportunity to reach the top.

This is in sharp contrast to other parties where it would be always difficult to imagine any such person, considered to be non-descript in the eyes of many political observers, hoping to make it to such a stage, and that too so early in life. Nabin has been selected for his organizatio...