Senior BJP leader J P Nadda has been appointed as the BJP working President. The decision was taken at the BJP Parliamentary Board meeting held at party headquarters in New Delhi this evening.

Mr Nadda will remain the working president till the BJP’s membership drive and organisation elections are over. Briefing reporters after the meeting, Senior party leader and Union Minister Rajnath Singh said, BJP won several elections under leadership of Amit Shah.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, Thawar Chand Gehlot and other senior party leaders attended the meeting.