NADDA EMERGES STRONGER AFTER BJP’S WIN IN FOUR STATES

party president. According to one of his old associates, the impact of the victories in the five states on Nadda was evident from the speech that he gave at the BJP office on Thursday night where he highlighted, for the first time, his efforts in these five elections. “Nadda likes to stay in the background, is soft spoken and hence people confuse these traits as that of a ‘submissive’ leader, when, in reality, he is a very efficient organizer and has this rare ability to preserve old personal contacts which is missing from many big leaders nowadays. His close associate Dharmendra Pradhan was given the responsibility of managing the elections in UP, where the party was fighting anti-incumbency, a resurgent Samajwadi Party and the impact of the farm laws. People talk about the CM and the PM as they are the faces during the campaign, but they tend to miss the role played by people like Nadda and Pradhan who have to deal with so many complexities, take into account the reservations that so many people have, and then chalk out a plan,” said a veteran journalist who has known both Nadda and Pradhan closely.

The results of UP will also put Dharmendra Pradhan, who was appointed election in charge of the state in September 2021, at a very important position in the party’s scheme of things for the coming 10 years. Pradhan, due to his swift ascent in the party, has made powerful adversaries within the party and if the party was unable to do well in the UP elections, it would have been a matter of time before he was “shunted” out in a party where the shelf lives of leaders is relatively short.