This story is from November 6, 2019

J P Nadda recalls fond memories of childhood in Patna, Kailashpati

While BJP working president J P Nadda recalled his old Patna connection and childhood memories while speaking at the death anniversary function of BJP stalwart Kailashpati Mishra at a function organized here on Tuesday.
J P Nadda recalls fond memories of childhood in Patna, Kailashpati
BJP working president JP Nadda in Patna on Tuesday. (Photo: ANI)
PATNA: While BJP working president J P Nadda recalled his old Patna connection and childhood memories while speaking at the death anniversary function of BJP stalwart Kailashpati Mishra at a function organized here on Tuesday.
The Naddas lived at Patna before shifting to Himachal Pradesh. J P Nadda had his schooling at St Xavier’s School here and college/university education at Patna University.

Nadda said when he was nine years old and Mishra visited his family once, he had asked him why the Bharatiya Jan Sangh (later named BJP) was contesting all the assembly seats when the party could get only “some thousand votes only”. Pat came Mishra’s reply, “Not to win the seats, but to popularize the party symbol diya/deepak (earthen lamp).”
He counted Mishra among the party’s “first line or first generation leaders,” like L K Advani, Nanaji Deshmukh and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Nadda said, “Friends in Bihar would say Bihar meant caste and, therefore, I had no future in the state! Congressmen in Himachal Pradesh would say politics is power game and, therefore, I did not stand a chance, while the Communists talked about politics for revolution! But see where the Congress and the Communists are today under the impact of the BJP’s expansion!”
Recalling his growth into adulthood in Bihar, deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi called him “a Bihari who had become the party’s working president, having started as an ABVP member in Patna University.”
State BJP president Dr Sanjay Jaiswal said when Nadda was the party’s general secretary in charge of the two districts of Champaran, he would never take chair on the stage and, instead, mingled with the crowd, cracking peanuts among them. Further, as an organization man, he succeeded in winning over disgruntled party workers.

Mishra’s death anniversary function was organized at Bapu Sabhagar by Kailashpati Mishra Smriti Nyas Samiti headed by party’s MLC Krishna Kumar Singh. On the occasion, books and souvenirs brought out by the Samiti on Mishra’s life were also released. BJP general secretary in charge Bhupender Yadav, Union ministers Nityanand Rai and Ashwini Kumar Choubey, state health minister Mangal Pandey besides members of Parliament Dr C P Thakur, Gopal Narain Singh and R K Sinha, Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Ram Kripal Yadav, among others were present on the occasion.
Later in the day, Nadda interacted with the party MPs, ministers, legislators and office-bearers at the state BJP headquarters.
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