Jagat Prakash Nadda (born 2 December 1960) is an Indian lawyer and politician serving as the

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of the

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(BJP) since 20 January 2020. He was the BJP's working president from June 2019 to January 2020. Nadda is the former

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of Health and Family Welfare, and member of

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from

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and Parliamentary Board Secretary of

. Earlier, he was a Minister in

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Personal life

Nadda was born on 2 December 1960 in

Patna Patna ( ), historically known as Pataliputra, is the capital and largest city of the state of Bihar in India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Patna had a population of 2.35 million, making it the 19th largest city in India. ...

Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Be ...

in the family of Narain Lall Nadda and Krishna Nadda, with roots in

. He has a brother named Jagat Bhushan Nadda. Nadda was educated at

St. Xavier's School, Patna , motto_translation = For God and Country , location = , streetaddress = West Gandhi Maidan Marg , region = , city = , county = Patna , state ...

. Thereafter he did his

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. from

Patna College Patna College is a constituent state aided College of Patna University which is established in 1863 during the British Raj, is one of the oldest colleges in the state of Bihar, India. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in science, ...

Patna University Patna University is a public state university in Patna, Bihar, India. It was established on 1 October 1917 during the British Raj. It is the first university in Bihar and the seventh oldest university in the Indian subcontinent in the modern er ...

and

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from Faculty of Law, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla. As a child, he represented

in the All India Junior Swimming Championship held at Delhi. Nadda married Mallika Nadda (

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Banerjee) on 11 December 1991, with whom he has two sons. His mother-in-law

Jayashree Banerjee Jayashree Banerjee (born 2 July 1938) is a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party from Madhya Pradesh, and a former member of parliament. She contested Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha election in 1972 as a member of Jana Sangh from Jabalpur Cantonment se ...

was elected to Lok Sabha in 1999.

Political career

Nadda was first elected to the

Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly The seat of the Vidhan Sabha is at Shimla, the capital of the state. The Vidhan Sabha comprises 68 Members of Legislative Assembly, which include 68 members directly elected from single-seat constituency. Its term is 5 years, unless sooner dissol ...

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

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. After

Prem Kumar Dhumal Prem Kumar Dhumal (pronounced ; born 10 April 1944) is an Indian politician and has twice served as the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, from March 1998 to March 2003 and again from 1 January 2008 to 25 December 2012. He was the Bharatiya Ja ...

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

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. In 2014, during a cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister

Narendra Modi Narendra Damodardas Modi (; born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament from ...

made Nadda, the

Minister of Health A health minister is the member of a country's government typically responsible for protecting and promoting public health and providing welfare and other social security services. Some governments have separate ministers for mental health. Coun ...

. 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 Amit Anil Chandra Shah (born 22 October 1964) is an Indian politician currently serving as the Minister of Home Affairs since 2019 and the first Minister of Co-operation of India since 2021. He served as the President of the Bharatiya Janata P ...

. In January 2021 in

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, 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.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nadda, Jagat Prakash 1960 births Living people Patna University alumni St. Xavier's Patna alumni Rajya Sabha members from Himachal Pradesh Health ministers of India Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Himachal Pradesh Narendra Modi ministry People from Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh State cabinet ministers of Himachal Pradesh Presidents of Bharatiya Janata Party Himachal Pradesh University alumni Himachal Pradesh MLAs 1993–1998 Himachal Pradesh MLAs 1998–2003 Himachal Pradesh MLAs 2007–2012