Patna born Nadda set to head BJP

Patna,30 May(HS): Patna born,59 years -old Jagat Prakash Nadda,is all set to take over as the president of the largest political party in the world-BJP  from Amit Shah.

JP Nadda, the outgoing health minister was expected to take over as the party president in 2014 also but the choice fell on Amit Shah. Born on December 2,1960 at Rani Ghat in Patna to Naraian lal Nadda and Krishna Nadda, Jagat Prakash had his schooling ,college and university education at Patna, where his father was head of  the department of applied economics and commerce at Patna University and later vice-chancellor of Ranchi University.

Two months back, JP Nadda had visited Patna alongwith his wife Prof Mallika Nadda and son, Aashish and visited his birth place, professors quarters on the banks of the Ganga,Patna College where he studied and Darbhanga House where his father was professor. He went through the chamber of his father and different parts of the professors  quarters to “educate” his son about Patna.

From the chamber of his father, he facilitated audio-video talks to his father at Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh for the son, other teachers.

While his wife, Mallika, daughter of the then MP and former  education minister of Madhya Pradesh, Jayashree Banjeree is also an assistant professor,his brother, Jagat Bhushan Nadda is also from academics having worked at Goa,Jammu,Himachal Universities and BIT(Mesra).He is now directior of consoritium for educational communication,an inter-university centre for UGC).

Jagat Prakash was first elected to Himachal Pradesh assembly in 1993,when he became health minister.He represented BIlaspur sadar in HP assembly three terms.He sas elected to Rajya Sabha first in 2012 and again in 2018.

He was associated with Akhil Bharatiya Vidharthi Parishad,students wing of BJP during his students days at Patna University  and was elected secretart of Patna University Students Union in 1977 when his junior in health ministry,Ashwini Kumafr Chaubey was its president.