Sushma Swaraj, Suresh Prabhu, Maneka Gandhi: Ministers Dropped from Modi Cabinet

He was the health minister in the first Modi government.

That Nadda (58) maintains a low profile also goes in his favour as the new party president will be expected to run the organisation in cohesion with the government and carry on with organisational agenda firmed up by Shah.

He is a member of the BJP's parliamentary board, its top decision-making body having its most important members, that gives him requisite seniority for the job as well, party sources said.