By Vineet Dikshit
NewsGate Press Network:
In a smoothly executed exercise in succession planning, Jagat Prakash Nadda, 59, was elected unopposed as the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday.
Others are political. If there’s one area where the BJP has fared poorly, it’s in managing political allies.
Will Mr Nadda be able to change that? Will he be able to stop the reverses the party has faced at the state level? More immediately, Mr Nadda will have to manage a campaign already underway, in all-important Delhi. And still others are ideological.
With the nullification of Article 370, the passage of the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act, and the Supreme Court’s verdict on the Ram temple at Ayodhya, many of the boxes in the party’s manifesto have been checked.
Mr Nadda will have an important role in deciding what the BJP focuses on next. It promises to be interesting. (courtesy HT, Delhi edition, 22-January-2020)
