by Harish Gupta, National Editor, Lokmat Group
Nadda's auspicious day sooner than expected !
Amit Shah keen to quit party post before Delhi polls
Harish Gupta
New Delhi, Jan. 13
The Capital is agog with reports that the working president J P Nadda may take over the reins as full president of the party very soon. Insiders say that a special session of the National Council of the BJP may be held either within the next ten days or immediately after the Delhi Assembly polls. But BJP president and Union Home Minister Amit Shah has impressed upon the party leaders that he would like to give up the party post to focus fully on the government affairs.
Now that the inauspicious period of “Khad Mas” (One month period) is over on the Makar Sankranti tomorrow, the process may be expedited. Though the process of completing states' organisational polls is not over yet, it is felt that the wait should not be prolonged.
The prolonged uncertainty in the party's leadership is giving birth to all kinds of speculations in the media and the party. Now that Nadda has worked closely with Amit Shah for nearly seven months, its time, he should be inducted as soon as possible. If inducted within the next ten days, Nadda will face an uphill task dislodged Arvind Kejriwal's government in Delhi. The hopes of the BJP rest on the revival of the Congress party which alone can weaken the AAP.
Though the time is short, Nadda has the capability to woo the old guards in his own affable style and sort out factionalism in the national capital within the party leaders. Seconly, he is an alliance man and would not have allowed All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU) to part ways in Jharkhand. J P Nadda was designated working president of the BJP in June last year and Amit Shah continued into the post for one reason or the other for such a long time dispensing with the principle of One-Man One-Post.
A final decision will be known in the next couple of days.
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