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Nadda in 2018
11th President of the Bharatiya Janata Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 January 2020 (2020-01-20)
Vice President	Vasundhara Raje, Saudan Singh, Saroj Pandey, Baijayant Panda, D. K. Aruna, A. P. Abdullakutty, Rekha Verma, M. Chuba Ao, Laxmikant Bajpai, Lata Usendi, Tariq Mansoor
Preceded by	Amit Shah
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 3 April 2012 (2012-04-03)
Preceded by	Viplove Thakur
Constituency	Himachal Pradesh
Working President of the Bharatiya Janata Party
In office 17 June 2019 (2019-06-17) – 20 January 2020 (2020-01-20)
President	Amit Shah
Preceded by	Jana Krishnamurthy
Succeeded by	Vacant
Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India
In office 9 November 2014 (2014-11-09) – 30 May 2019 (2019-05-30)
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Harsh Vardhan
Succeeded by	Harsh Vardhan
Cabinet Minister, Government of Himachal Pradesh
In office 2007 (2007)–2012 (2012)
Chief Minister	Prem Kumar Dhumal
Ministry	Forest, Environment, Science and Technology
In office 1998 (1998)–2003 (2003)
Chief Minister	Prem Kumar Dhumal
Ministry	Health & Family Welfare and Parliamentary Affairs
Member of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly
In office 2007 (2007)–2012 (2012)
Preceded by	Tilak Raj Sharma
Succeeded by	Bumber Thakur
Constituency	Bilaspur
In office 1993 (1993)–2003 (2003)
Preceded by	Sada Ram Thakur
Succeeded by	Tilak Raj Sharma
Constituency	Bilaspur
Personal details
Born	Jagat Prakash Nadda (1960-12-02) 2 December 1960 (age 63) Patna, Bihar, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Other political affiliations	National Democratic Alliance
Spouse	Mallika Banerjee ​ (m. 1991)​
Children	2
Relatives	Jayashree Banerjee (mother-in-law)
Alma mater	• Patna College (B.A.) • Faculty of Law, Himachal Pradesh University (L.L.B) •St. Xavier's High School, Patna

Jagat Prakash Nadda (born 2 December 1960) is an Indian lawyer and politician serving as the 11th president of the Bharatiya Janata Party since 2020 and the member of the Rajya Sabha representing Himachal Pradesh since 2012. He was the BJP's working president from 2019 to 2020. Nadda also served as the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India in the 1st Modi ministry from 2014 to 2019 and Parliamentary Board Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party. Previously, he was a MLA from Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh from 2007 to 2012 and from 1993 to 2003 and the Minister of Forest, Environment, Science and Technology from 2007 to 2012 and the Ministry and the Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Parliamentary Affairs from 1998 to 2003 in the Himachal Pradesh Government.

Personal life

Nadda was born on 2 December 1960 in Patna, Bihar in the family of Narain Lall Nadda and Krishna Nadda, with roots in Himachal Pradesh. He has a brother named Jagat Bhushan Nadda.

Nadda was educated at St. Xavier's School, Patna. Thereafter he did his B.A. from Patna College, Patna University and LL.B. from Faculty of Law, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla. As a child, he represented Bihar in the All India Junior Swimming Championship held at Delhi. Nadda married Mallika Nadda (née Banerjee) on 11 December 1991, with whom he has two sons. His mother-in-law Jayashree Banerjee was elected to Lok Sabha in 1999.

Political career

Nadda as the Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare, addressing the UNGA High Level Meeting on HIV-AIDS, in New York on 8 June 2016

Nadda was first elected to the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly in the election of 1993 from Bilaspur. He was re-elected in 1998.

During his first term, he served as the Leader of his party group in the Himachal Pradesh 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 into 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.

Nadda was appointed the national working president of the BJP in June 2019. On 20 January 2020, he was elected unanimously as the BJP National President, a role he took from Amit Shah.

In January 2021 in Bardhaman, West Bengal, Nadda started a new scheme Ek Muthi Chaawal Yojana. In September 2022 he got extension to be the party chief till 2024 Lok Sabha polls.