Jagat Prakash Nadda, who took charge as BJP President on Monday, always maintained a low profile before coming close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Born on December 2, 1960 at Patna, Bihar and son of Dr Narain Lal and Krishna Nadda, he is married to Mallika Nadda. He got his earlier education at St. Xaviers School, Patna and did his graduation from Patna University and later a Law degree from HP University Shimla.

Nadda enterned the political arena in the year 1975 during the on going Sampurna Kranti movement launched by Jayaprakash Narayan against the autocratic and dictatorial rule of the then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi.

He later joined ABVP, the student  wing of as a student in Patna University where his father was a Vice Chancellor. He won several elections as a student union leader and remained at various top positions in ABVP. He became politically active as a youth leader during his college days.

In 1989, he was assigned a major responsibility as election-in-charge of the BJP Youth Wing when he was just 29 years old. He also remained in Jail for 45 days for organizing Rashtriya Sangharsh Morcha. In 1991 he was made the National President of the BJP Yuva Morcha, at 31.

He fought three assembly elections from his home state Himachal Pradesh – 1993, 1998, and 2007and won all three. He has been a cabinet minister in Himachal Pradesh for three terms and held various important portfolios.

While he was still a Cabinet Minister in the BJP government in Himachal Pradesh, Nadda decided to take bigger responsibilities in the centre and resigned from the cabinet.

It goes to his credit that he soon made a place in the central core group of the BJP as a master strategist on the foot steps of Amit Shah and gained the reputation of a quintessential organizational man. He had been instrumental in taking several major decisions of the party.

No wonder he was included in the Union Cabinet as Health Minister when  BJP came into power under the leadership of Modi.