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    COVER STORY                                                           AUGUST 28, 2026      |  The Indian Eye                    4

                                                           BJP’S NEW TEAM
                                    YOUTH +

                   EXPERIENCE

              With Nitin Nabin at the helm, the BJP is combining organizational veterans with younger

                   faces and wider regional representation as it prepares for the next electoral cycle.

            OUR BUREAU
            New Delhi
                  he Bharatiya Janata Party’s
                  new national team under pres-
            Tident Nitin Nabin is more than
            a routine organizational reshuffle. It
            is  an attempt to  balance continuity
            with renewal, experience with youth
            and  established political  networks
            with a broader representation of re-
            gions, communities and professional
            backgrounds.
                Announced nearly six months af-
            ter Nabin took over as BJP president,
            the team gives a clear indication of the
            organizational architecture he wants
            to build as the party heads towards a
            demanding  electoral  calendar.  With
            Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Gujarat
            already receiving new state in-charges
            and several other states expected to
            see changes, the BJP is moving to-
            wards an organization designed for                 Bharatiya Janata Party National President Nitin Nabin takes a selfie with enthusiastic crowds at
            the battles ahead.
                The most striking feature of the                       the “Yuva Samvad’ event in Visakhapatnam (@NitinNabin X/ANI Photo)
            appointments is the combination of
            familiar names and relatively newer   energy and grassroots connect”. The   as Biplab Deb, Sunil Bansal, Vinod   tions require organizational depth
            faces. Former Rajasthan chief minis-  formulation captures the central ob-  Tawde, Gajendra Patel, Satish Poonia,   in regions where its performance re-
            ter Vasundhara Raje, former Uttara-  jective behind the exercise: retain the   Harish Dwivedi and Sanjay Bhatia.  mains uneven. The presence of lead-
            khand chief minister Tirath Singh   organizational memory of the BJP    The  mix  gives  the  party  a  com-  ers from the Northeast and southern
            Rawat,  Ram  Madhav  and  Baijayant   while giving space to leaders who can   bination of electoral experience,   states alongside those from the BJP’s
            Panda bring political experience to   connect with newer voters and chang-  state-level organizational knowledge   traditional  strongholds  reflects  that
            the national team. At the same time,   ing political constituencies.  and political visibility.       reality.
            the appointment of younger leaders    Nabin himself described it as a   At the other end of the spectrum,   The appointment of Phangnon
            and newer organizational workers in-  “team for the future” and said its task   the national secretary list demon-  Konyak from Nagaland is particularly
            dicates that the BJP is investing in its   would be to take the Prime Minister’s   strates the BJP’s effort to widen   significant in terms of the Northeast’s
            next generation.                  vision to the grassroots, strengthen   its  geographical  footprint.  Leaders   representation, while leaders from
                This balance matters for a party   ties with party workers and maintain   from Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Uttar   Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal
            that has increasingly emphasized in-  dialogue with the public.     Pradesh, Jharkhand, Gujarat, Delhi,   underline the party’s continuing at-
            stitutional continuity even  as it pre-  The choice of general secretaries   Nagaland, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal,   tempt to build organizational strength
            pares for leadership transition in the   is particularly important because this   Bihar and Assam have been included.  in states where electoral competition
            longer term.                      is the BJP’s core organizational ma-  That geographical spread is not   remains intense.
                Prime Minister Narendra Modi   chinery.  Former  Amethi  MP  Smriti   incidental. The BJP is no longer pri-  Women also have a sizeable pres-
            described the new team as bringing   Irani returns to a prominent organi-  marily a party of a handful of northern   ence in the new structure. Six of the 13
            together “organizational experience,   zational role, alongside leaders such   and western states. Its national ambi-  Continued on next page... >>

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