PM Narendra Modi on Tuesday felicitated the BJP’s new National President Nitin Nabin and spoke on a number of key issues at the party headquarters in New Delhi.
Newly elected BJP National President Nitin Nabin and PM Narendra Modi at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi, Tuesday, January 20, 2026. (Photo: IANS)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday described Nitin Nabin, who took charge as the Bharatiya Janata Party’s National President, as his boss, stating his job is not just to take care of the ruling party but also ensure coordination among NDA partners.
Speaking shortly after felicitating Nabin, who has been elected as the BJP National President unopposed, at the party headquarters in New Delhi, Modi said, “When it comes to party matters, then I am a worker and Shri Nitin Nabin ji is my boss.”
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The PM said Nabin comes from a generation that has seen India change and also carries with him “youthful energy”.
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“Nitin ji himself is, in a way, a millennial. He belongs to a generation that has witnessed a great deal of change in India. He belongs to an era which, in childhood, heard the news on the radio and today is well versed in using AI. Nitin ji has both youthful energy and a great deal of experience.”
PM Modi further said it is one thing that he has been the head of a government for 25 consecutive years and has been the prime minister for three successive terms, but the proudest thing has been that he is a BJP worker.
Modi highlighted the democratic process within the BJP for elections to party posts. “For the past several months, from the smallest unit of the organisation to the election of the national president, the entire process has been carried out in a hundred per cent democratic manner.”
Recounting the BJP’s journey, Modi said the party has risen “from zero to the summit”.
“In this century… for the first time the BJP achieved a full majority on its own. It formed governments in many states and came to power at the Centre for a second consecutive term.”
The PM also spoke about the BJP’s resilience in electoral matters, highlighting it has broken the trend of losing elections, unlike other parties, after staying in power for a long duration.
“Be it Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh or Bihar, in many states the BJP has won elections with an even bigger majority. The BJP’s strike rate in elections is unprecedented,” the PM said.
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“Today, the BJP is not only the first choice in Parliament and state assemblies, but also in municipalities and municipal corporations. The latest example of this is Maharashtra. The BJP has become the number one party in Maharashtra’s local bodies. Out of a total of 29, the people of 25 big cities have chosen the BJP–NDA.
“Of the total councillors who have won, 50 per cent are from the BJP. Similarly, in Kerala, the BJP has around 100 councillors. In the same way, the people of Thiruvananthapuram took power away from the Left after 45 years in the mayoral election and placed their trust in the BJP. I have full faith that in the upcoming assembly elections as well, the people will surely give the BJP a chance,” the PM added.
Modi noted that the BJP’s journey has been remarkable in earning public confidence and in the last 11 years, the party has formed governments for the first time on its own in Haryana, Assam, Tripura and Odisha.
“The BJP is a tradition. It is a family. Here, there is more of ‘relationship’ than just ‘membership’. The BJP is such a tradition that runs not by position but by process. Here, holding a post is an arrangement, and carrying out the work is a lifelong responsibility. Here, presidents change, but ideals do not change. Leadership changes, but the direction does not change,” Modi said further, highlighting the party’s ideals.
“We are those people, that is our character, those are our values… the party is bigger than the self, and the nation is bigger than the party. This is the value system of every BJP worker, this is the life mantra of every BJP worker.
“With this very spirit, over the past 11 years, we have triumphed over numerous challenges. Whether it was bringing down the wall of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir or enacting a law against triple talaq — things that were once considered impossible have today become reality.”
The PM noted that a quarter of the 21st century is already over and the next 25 years are going to be extremely important.
“This is the period during which the building of a Developed India must take place — and it is certain to happen,” the PM said.
Modi also took a swipe at the Congress and other parties, highlighting some of them are fighting for relevance.
“The country has seen various models of governance after independence — the Congress’s model of dynastic politics, the Left’s model, the model of regional parties, the era of unstable governments… But today, the country is witnessing the BJP’s development model, one marked by stability, good governance, and sensitivity,” he said.
“Today the country probably doesn’t even remember that in 1984 Congress got more than 400 seats and the country gave Congress nearly 50 per cent of the votes, but today Congress is desperately longing even for 100 seats. Congress never conducts a review of this catastrophic decline of its own, because if it does review and goes into the reasons for the decline, questions will arise about the very family that has captured Congress. And that is why they keep finding excuses. They have even lost the courage to find the real reason for the decline,” he added, highlighting the Grand Old Party’s failure to look into the mirror.
The PM also spoke about key goals for his government, stating India will not accept infiltration and allow infiltrators to loot the country’s resources.
“Infiltrators are the biggest threat to the country and they should be sent back. Political parties that are trying to protect infiltrators must be exposed,” Modi said, adding even countries like the US and those in Europe are “catching and expelling” illegal immigrants.
“Infiltrators pose a very serious threat to the country’s security; identifying them and sending them back to their countries is extremely necessary,” he added.
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