Jagat Prakash Nadda


Jagat Prakash Nadda is an Indian politician who has been the President of the Bharatiya Janta Party since 20 January 2020. He was the BJP's working president from June 2019 to January 2020.
Nadda is the former Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare and member of Rajya Sabha from Himachal Pradesh and Parliamentary Board Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party. Earlier, he was a Minister in Himachal Pradesh Government.

Personal life

A Himachali by origin, Nadda was born on 2 December 1960 to Narain Lall Nadda and Krishna Nadda in Patna, Bihar. He has a brother Jagat Bhushan Nadda. He was educated at St. Xavier's School, Patna. Thereafter he did his B.A. from Patna College, Patna University and LL.B. from Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla. As a child, he represented Bihar in the All India Junior Swimming Championship held at Delhi. Nadda married Mallika Nadda on 11 December 1991, with whom he has two sons.

Political career

Nadda was first elected to the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly in the election of 1993, he was subsequently re-elected in 1998.
During his first term, he served as the Leader of his party group in the H.P. Legislative Assembly, from 1994 to 1998. He was the Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Parliamentary Affairs during his second term.
Nadda was elected for another term in the 2007 elections. After Prem Kumar Dhumal formed a government, he inducted Nadda in his cabinet, as cabinet minister responsible for Forest, Environment, Science and Technology, from 2008 to 2010.
Nadda did not seek re-election to the Legislative Assembly in 2012, and instead got elected to Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber. In 2014, during a cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made Nadda, the Minister of Health.
JP Nadda was Elected as the BJP National President on Jan 20th, 2020 for his impressive work in the State of Uttar Pradesh in the 2019 Indian General elections.He had been appointed as the National working president of the BJP in June,2019 but took over the role of the National President from Amit Shah after being elected unanimously in January 2020.