Both the top national parties of India - Congress and the BJP are in the process of electing the next chief of the party. The developments around the crucial affairs are attracting national attention as the new leadership will be driving the party to the 2024 Lok Sabha polls with multiple stopovers of assembly polls.

While the presidential election in the Congress party has triggered a race with more than one candidate on the ballot, BJP is less likely to witness the race as the incumbent JP Nadda has a bright prospect of winning a second term. 

BJP National President JP Nadda will continue his reign in the party at least till the 2024 Lok Sabha polls as the apex body of the party, the BJP Parliamentary Board, has decided to award him an extension with the view of keeping the sense of current organizational continuity, which the party believes will help it in a string of key assembly polls in the upcoming months before the general elections. 

Nadda, who served as the Union Health Minister in Modi's first regime, is serving his first term as the BJP National President and his three-year term will end in January next year. However, the reports in the know affirm that the BJP Parliamentary Board is expected to keep him in office for another term and the announcement concerning his extension will be made before the end of his current term. 

Several leaders of the BJP, close to the developments, noted that since the organizational polls in BJP state units are yet to start, it has become certain that Nadda will continue his term as the BJP President. As per the party's rules, the organizational polls should be over in at least half of its state units before the election of its national president. 

The sources said that Nadda's conduct of low-key and affable personality has become a vital asset to the party in terms of the BJP's organizational functioning and coordination that are imperative to address fresh challenges for the party. Nadda's loyalism towards Modi, his ties with RSS, and his exhibit of organizational momentum have come as an added advantage of why he would be awarded an extension to drive the party for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. 

It has been reported that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is now more keen in BJP's organizational functioning and with Amit Shah's crucial play in politically sacrosanct states, Nadda's role of coordination and implementation of strategies towards expanding the party is required to complete the circle and Nadda is highly credited in the party for exhibiting an able leadership, though the party lost some elections including West Bengal assembly polls under his presidency.

On the other hand, Nadda's leadership was instrumental for BJP to retain the reign in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. It is pertinent to note that Nadda's predecessor Amit Shah also got an extension as the party wanted him to continue during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. After Modi formed the government for the second consecutive term, Amit Shah has become the Union Home Minister, the second powerful ministry in the current cabinet after the Prime Minister. 

After Shah's elevation, JP Nadda was elected unopposed as the BJP's National President and his term is now nearing its deadline. For JP Nadda, 2023 will be a litmus test ahead of the general election as nine states - Tripura, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan, and Telangana will go for the polls. Of these states, BJP is ruling two of them completely while is part of the ruling alliance in two other states. 

If elections are to be held in Jammu and Kashmir next year, it will add more ordeal for Nadda's leadership as the outcomes of elections from these states will change the game in 2024 general elections. On the other side of the aisle, Congress is all set to elect the first non-Gandhi chief in decades. The presidential election in the Congress party will be held on October 17 and the results will be announced on October 19. Senior leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Sashi Tharoor are contesting for the polls.