New Delhi: The current working president of the party, Jagat Prakash Nadda is set to become the BJP’s national president. Nadda is the BJP president after the resignation of current president Amit Shah. BJP sources said that the announcement of Nadda’s presidency is likely to take place today.

Former BJP leaders Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, and Nitin Gadkari will also nominate Nadda’s name, BJP sources said. This proposal will be approved by other members of the BJP National Council. The time for filing nominations for BJP’s presidency is from 10 am to 12:30 pm. Scrutiny of nominations will take place between 12.30 and 1.30 pm. Candidates will have the opportunity to withdraw between 1.30 and 2.30. There is no need to hold a vote on Tuesday as Nadda is likely to be the only candidate.

Nadda will take over the role of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a function to be held at the BJP headquarters here this month.

With the BJP winning the Lok Sabha elections and Amit Shah becoming the Home Minister in the second Modi government, the Himachal Pradesh leader JP Nadda has been appointed working president to reduce the Shah’s workload. Amit Shah’s loyalist Bhupinder Yadav is expected to become the BJP’s new working president or vice president when Jadda Nadda assumes office. Under the new leadership, various national committees of the party will be reorganized. All-Union ministers have been called to the office of the BJP today. This will inform the electoral process and discuss Nadda’s presidency. Nadda was a three-time member of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly (MLA) from 1993-2012.

New Delhi: The third edition of the ‘Pariksha Pe Charcha 2020′ program will be held today. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold talks with students, teachers and parents at a function at New Delhi’s Talchatora Stadium at 11 am. The Prime Minister will answer students’ questions about how to face the exams and how to avoid the exams. More than 2000 students from across the country will participate in the program.

Competitions including essay writing have been organized as part of the program for students from 9th to 12th grade. About 1500 students are selected through the essay competition. The ‘Exam Pe Charcha’ program was launched on February 16, 2018.

Bilaspur: Maoist woman killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh. The encounter took place in the forest area of Bijapur. CRPF and police were jointly searching the area. The body of a woman wearing a Maoist uniform was found on Monday morning.

Special forces, Cobra Force and other forces were searching for information that Maoists were hiding in the villages of Theekalgudam and Basaguda. Security forces are continuing their search in the confrontation area.

New Delhi: A team of 36 Union ministers will visit Jammu and Kashmir today. The team will be visiting various districts of the Union Territory till 24th of this month. The purpose of the visit is to create awareness among the people on the central government’s development plans. Minister of State for Home Affairs G Ramachandran has said this. Kishan Reddy has written to Jammu and Kashmir Chief Secretary BVR Subramaniam.

Home Minister Amit Shah wants all the members of the Union Cabinet to visit Jammu and Kashmir. Reddy clarified. The visit will be beneficial to the people of the Central Government’s plans for the full development of Jammu and Kashmir.