New Delhi: When Nitin Nabin was in Class 12, politics was not part of the plan.

One of his school friends recalls that in a slam book he filled out at the time, Nabin wrote that politics was the last profession he would ever want to pursue. Nearly three decades later, the same man has been appointed the working president of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the world’s largest political organisation, in a turn that even those closest to him say he did not see coming.

People who have known Nabin since his school and college years say politics was never an ambition he consciously nurtured. His entry, they argue, was shaped more by circumstance than by design.

That circumstance arrived in 2006, when his father, senior BJP leader and former MLA Nabin Kishore Prasad Sinha, passed away unexpectedly

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