The ruling BJP on Monday got its 12th president, with Bihar’s Nitin Nabin winning uncontested. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the proposers.The formal announcement of Nabin’s election will take place on Tuesday, concluding the BJP organisational election process that commenced with the membership drive in November 2024.Nabin, 45, will be the youngest BJP chief and the first to be born after the party was formed in 1980. He will replace BJP Himachal Pradesh veteran and Union Health Minister JP Nadda, who assumed charge in January 2020 and was on an extension for a year and a half.The BJP president’s term, as mandated by the party constitution, is three years. The party’s parliamentary board, the highest decision-making body, can, however, recommend an extension of the term, as done earlier in the cases of Amit Shah and later Nadda.Nabin, a five-term MLA from Bihar, cut his political teeth in RSS frontal organisations and was long associated with the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, the BJP’s youth wing. He entered politics after the demise of his father Naveen Kishore, who was a four-time MLA and a senior Bihar BJP leader.Nabin has been a two-term minister in the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar cabinet and has helmed elections for the BJP in Sikkim (2019) and Chhattisgarh (2023). In both states, the NDA and the BJP won, respectively.“After the period of withdrawal of nominations today, in my capacity as national returning officer, Sangathan Parv, Bharatiya Janata Party, I hereby announce that only one name, that of Nitin Nabin, has been proposed for the post of national president of the Bharatiya Janata Party,” BJP internal poll in-charge K Laxman said today.He said PM Narendra Modi was among the proposers, along with senior ministers Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, JP Nadda, Nitin Gadkari and Hardeep Puri among others. Out of 37 sets of proposers, 36 were from BJP units in states and UTs, and one was from the BJP Parliamentary Board, which Modi chairs.The BJP national president election process was initiated after elections were held for state president posts in 30 BJP units out of 36. The constitutional requirement to elect the BJP national president is that 50 per cent of state units should have elected state chiefs.The notification of the schedule of events for the BJP chief’s post was announced and the electoral roll was published on January 16. However, no election will now take place as Nabin has been unanimously chosen.The nomination process for the election of the BJP chief was held today. “Nomination papers were received in favour of Nitin Nabin for the post of national president. On scrutiny, all sets of nomination papers were found to be duly filled in the required format and were valid,” Laxman said. The formal announcement of Nabin as BJP chief will take place on Tuesday.