India Vs South Africa, G20 declarations — Geoeconomic Repeat Or Reset ?

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Introduction -

Over the past month, in the world of cricket, India vs South Africa games have dominated the headlines. Let it be the finals of the ICC women's world cup or the ongoing India - South Africa test series in India, cricket has been the major talking point between the 2 fastest growing economies of the world's most populous continents. Adding to the talking points between the 2 economies, is also the fact that, the G20 summit of year 2025 is being conduted in South Africa.

For starters India had conducted the G20 summit in 2023 which saw the adoption of the New Delhi declaration which saw a rare consensus in a body which has multiple complex geopolitical rivalries shaping the group. South Africa conducted the G20 summit in 2025 which was overwhelmed by the news of the USAs peace deal to end the Russia - Ukraine war, additionally, the group adopted the Johannesburg declaration, sans consensus as the Trump administration had virtually boycotted the event.

Before analysing the 2 reports, its critical to understand the geopolitical contexts behind the 2 meetings, which have shaped this group.

Geopolitical background -

The G20 events have always been historically influenced by geopolitical events. The G20 is an organisation that was formed in 1999, post the aftermath of the brutal Asian Financial crisis which had rocked the economic boat of many emerging economies. To put in brief, the prime objectives of G20 are - Promoting international economic and financial stability, enhance policy and dialogue coordination, making global governance more inclusive & over time it has covered agendas like trade,climate, health, development amongst others.

The initial meeting of G20 was conducted in Berlin. Given agendas like economic & financial stability, global governance and trade are heavily influenced by geopolitics, hence every major G20 meet is always held in the background of geopolitical shocks which affect these factors in a massive manner. With this context, its important to just revise some geopolitical factors that were starkly different in 2023 & 2025. For starters, G20 is undoubtedly the biggest economic grouping of the world, which directly controls almost 80% of the world's economy and has many powerful countries as the members of the grouping.

In 2023,major geopolitical events were the prolonged Russia Ukraine war, the non availability of Russia & China in the G20 event, sluggish economic growth, recent BRICS expansion along with the positioning of global south were the major geopolitical factors that impacted the world's geoeconomics in a major manner.

Whereas,in 2025,major geopolitical events have been:- Prolonged russia ukraine war, Israel - Hamas war and its spillovers, tensions related to democratic values in emerging countries like Nepal & Bangladesh, Trump tariffs, political changes in European union, increasing tensions between USA & China along with the reformation of RIC grouping have impacted geopolitical events of the past 2 years which have given a very different shape to the Johannesburg G20 declaration. Though the growth rate of the world's GDP has remained stable around 3.2% of the GDP, but the rising AI disruption, along with the renewed debate on critical minerals may lead to a massive change in output gaps. 

While, the geopolitical uncertainities have been tense during the time of both the events, it can be confidently said, the uncertainities prevailing in 2025 are much more than what existed in 2023. Additionally, it can be said that the nature of geopolitical uncertainities have become directly more focused into economic aspect in 2025 prior to the  Johannesburg declaration.

New Delhi Declaration Economic Outcomes -

The New Delhi declaration had a salient economic outcome plan, which pushed for the creation of the India Middle East Economic Coridoor, which was announced in the presence of all the G20 nations. This was also historic as, it literally meant providing a new route from the world's fastest growing economy to one of the world's most advanced economic regions, though in the last couple of years due to the Israel - Hamas war , the 3 day war between Israel and Iran, along with multiple economic factors in the middle east have casted doubts over the viability of the IMEEC. Nevertheless, IMEEC was an attempt by the G20 to actually push for greater financial and economic linkages between the global north and global south, which can still be a gamechanger in today's day and age. 

The biggest highlight was the expansion of the group to G21, with the inclusion of African Union as a permanent member, which marked the G20 as one of the world's biggest grouping in terms of the number of nations covered. The New Delhi declaration worked on a full consensus basis, which meant that every point made in the G20 declaration was fully supported by each and every member country, with little opposition.

Sustainable economic transformation was undoubtedly one of the biggest promises of the New Delhi G20 leaders declaration. A detailed roadmap on including private sector to create accessible & inclusive global supply chains, urging for the safe transportation of grains in the ports of Russia & Ukraine, announcing the formation of the International Big Cats Alliance (IBCA) and establishment of the Startup 20 engagement group were the salient features under this important agenda in 2023. Accelerating progress on the sustainable development goals was a separate section in the declaration, which included the vision of implementation of G20 2023 Action plan to progress on SDGs. The LiFE program was also heavily focused upon during the New delhi meet of G20.Furthermore, G20 sustainable finance roadmap was also put into motion during New Delhi which included noting that developing countries needed almost 6 trillion$ in the pre 2030 period to fulfill emission targets to reach net zero by 2050. The organisation further recomitted itself to implementing the global biodiversity fund within the Global Environmental Facility.

The other critical talking point in the New Delhi declaration were the provisions related to debt frameworks and sustainability. The 2023 declaration called for urgently and effectively addressing debt vulnerabilities in developing countries and committed to pursue reforms for better, bigger and more effective systems for MDBs.  Though the meet had taken note of the need of regulating crypto assets, no major steps were announced in that direction, additionally, CBDCs were also given a special mention in emerging fintech solutions. Similarly, digital inclusion of MSMEs, female digital litreacy etc. were also included in bits and pieces in the declaration.

Furthermore, the 2023 declaration made significant strides in digital public infrastructure(DPI), which endorsed the toolkit for financial inclusion and G20 policy recommendations for advancing financial inclusion and productivity gains through digital public infrastructure. In this meeting, India had promised to buld and maintain a global digital public infrastructure, which would be shared voluntarily by G20 members. G20 toolkit on cyber education and awareness on youth was also passed during the meeting.

In hindsight, it can be safely concluded that the New Delhi declaration, actually ended up operating on 1 world and 1 financial system agenda, as it lacked plans for any particular geographical region in particuar which became a key highlight in the immediate next meeting, The second bigger change, was that, the New delhi declaration gave more priority towards sustainable development over macroeconomic issues which marked a significant change of public opinion for the G20, which has long been pointed out as an organisation focusing only on the hardcore economics. These steps, while will increase public participation in G20, but it may end up diluting the core agenda of "financial stability" for which the G20 was formed in the first place 26 years ago.

Comparision Of Johannesburg Declaration Economic Outcomes

In contrast the Johannesburg declaration was different, but it showed a continuity in the G20 agenda that was the main feature of this particular declaration held in Africa this time. The G20 meeting in South Africa was all the more historic as it was the first meeting that was held in Africa.

Disaster resilience was one of the most discussed aspects in the Johannesburg declaration especially in the small island developing countries & the LDCs. This is one point that was in continuation with the New Delhi declaration which institutionalized the G20 Disaster Risk working group as part of the G20 architecture, by arguing that DPR is a permanent G20 priority. The New Delhi version of the meet, also prioritized the support for institutions like CDRI and financing frameworks for DPR, in addition to support for SIDS and LDCs. This is one sub agenda where it can be said that, Johannesburg & New Delhi declarations synced almost perfectly.

A few additions on issues related to disaster management were notable in Johannesburg, which were - G20 Voluntary Principles for Investing in Disaster Risk Reduction, Recovery Readiness Assesment Framework, pushing for universal coverage of UN warning systems by 2027, synergising SFDRR -2030 SDG goals and Paris Agreement, are definitely some of the innovations that have been bought in the Johannesburg decalaraion.

Debt is another topic where the 2, G20 meets showed remarkable continuity, if the 2023 declaration gave the Debt Sustainability Initiative framework, the Johannesburg declaration went a step further by endorsing the G20 Ministerial declaration and supporting the IMF Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) for LICs and understanding debt vulnerabilities more effectively. This is a significant addition as the 2023 version had very little mention of the IMF. This maybe possible, due to,the historically amicable relations with the USA. The inclusion of private sector in debt related conversations is also a topic, which has generated significant interest in the Johannesburg declaration this year. The tradition of continuing the conversation on debt is also critical, because, over the past 4-5 years, global debt has increased massively. The more worrying aspect is that the top 5 world economies have significant debt exposure, which can impact global supply chains and financial integration in the longer run. Since, this is a good start, it must be noted that, in the future G20 must also focus a lot more on the kind of debts that the countries are picking up and maybe creating a dedicated taskforce can help in the longer run. The other innovations in finance related stuff in the Johannesburg declaration is the support to FATF in relation with money laundering is a big differentiator from the New Delhi version, which surprisingly did not speak a lot about it during the meet, though terror financing remains a security achilees heel for the Indian government.

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The third biggest talking point in both the events was definitely about the issues related to sustainable development, which we have covered in the previous section. However, the Johannesburg declaration actually showed more than continuity towards this issue. The issue of critical minerals has gained rapid currency over the past few years now. The recent meeting between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, Afghanistan allowing Indian access to mine critical minerals in Afghanistan, Balochistan's renewed importance in the critical minerals chessboard, Artic minerals race amongst others can become a very critical reason in the future global supply chains. The critical minerals race, may last longer, as it is a newer commodity that is being used in the economic chains which can play a crucial role for any 1 country to lead a breakthrough and there maybe other countries which can follow suit later on, as suggested in the Schumpeterian trade cycle. The G20 critical minerals framework is a massive step in this direction, though the framework in itself doesn't provide any unique solutions, but its the adoption may pave way for other multilaterals of understanding the importance of critical minerals especially in emerging economies. 

Other points related to sustainable development like - Industrialization labs, G20 food security task force and the addition of recognition of Africa's agricultural potential are some intriguing points that can be great assets towards expansion over this topic. The point to combat land degradation is a very salient & unique feature of the Johannesburg declaration which was not covered in the New Delhi declaration.

Notable Differences

The largest difference between the New Delhi & Johannesburg declarations are the focus areas, while the New Delhi declaration touched on topics that affected the whole of globe, the Johannesburg declaration has focused a little bit disproportionately over African Union related issues, which is understandable as its the first meet conducted in African soil. However, this can give rise to multiple countries starting to raise various sub regional issues in the future G20 meetings, this may end up being unjust towards countries of groupings like BIMSTEC, SCO & ASEAN which have very little representation in the organisation, this would also dilute the "global" image of G20.  

The second difference between the 2 meets, is also, the focus given to job creation, while the New Delhi declaration gave a lot of importance to issues like - skilling & job creation, this is 1 area, which has seen very little mention in the Johannesburg declaration, which maybe slightly disappointing for the academicians. Additionally, in both the declarations, there have been very rare discussions on improving scientific temper, which is becoming a major problem in majority societies today.

Thirdly, the New Delhi declaration had laid  the vision of IMEEC, which has not even found a mention in Johannesburg declaration and neither has the Johannesburg declaration has seen any concrete announcement towards integrating advanced & emerging economies, which should be a massive point of concern for countries of African union, who could have proposed different trade routes in this edition of G20. However, it does seem that, geopolitical issues like Trump tariffs, pushed the African Union leadership to adopt a safer path by not announcing mega deals. Now all eyes, would be towards the USA meet of G20 which would be held sometime in 2027, under the temparamental Trump administration, which may find it hard to get all the 21 partners of G20 on board for a consensus statement, which was done successfully by India and done on a smaller scale by South Africa as a host. 

Overall, the India vs South Africa - G20 declarations were neither a geoeconomic repeat or reset, but was a good example of rare geoeconomic continuity on certain points while have discontinuity on some critical aspects. Now, all eyes of the geoeconomic hawks would shift over to the next round of G20 in the USA. The G20 needs to revisit, recontinue and refurbish some of the critical agendas that are impactful in today's day & world, to make sure that the idea of economic integration is not lost in the forever chaos of geoeconomics & geopolitics, which is the only constant in economics.

Contenders For The Post Of BJP National President

Over the past 1 and a half year, one news item has dominated the headlines of newspapers, post every major assembly election in India, which is related to the post of the national president of India's ruling party, the BJP.

Introduction -

The reason why, the election of national president of a political party matters is because, a new national president brings his/her own working style, his ideas to the table, all which can have a significant bearing on the national and state level politics of India. For example - In the case of BJP, when Amit Shah was the national president of the party, the party toook a pragmatic approach towards startegic expansion in North East India, where it had struggled in the past due to allegations of apathy towards Christians, alienation  of the tribals, non understanding of the local dynamics amongst others.

Amit Shah during his tenure, formed the NEDA (North Eastern Democratic Alliance) consisting of various regional & sub regional parties, which gave BJP a major edge in such a manner, that now, BJP has its MLAs in all the states of North east and has been able to form the state government consequently in states like Assam, Tripura, Manipur & Arunachal Pradesh on its own strength, something which was unthinkable about in the past. The similar examples can be said about the other presidents like JP Nadda, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari etc. The post of a party president is also critical because, it decides on the candidates to contest elections in every state, which can have a significant effecr on the electoral as well as economic outcomes of a state or even a district for that matter.

Now, just like, any other party, the BJP has usually followed a pattern in appointing the national presidents. It must be kept in mind, that BJP is the ruling party in the country today, which makes the selection criterion very different than when, it was in opposition. For example, when BJP was in opposition during UPA era, popular faces like Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari  & LK Advani functioned as the national president of the BJP. Whereas, when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the prime minister, experiments were conducted by making grassroots leaders like, Jana Krishnamurthi as the national president of BJP. The tenure of BJP president is 3 years and it can be extended to 6 years, based on approval from the BJP Parliamentary board which includes tall leaders of the party, this extension has already been given to JP Nadda. The other point to note is that, organisational elections should be conducted in 2/3rd of the state units, which the BJP has already done so far. 

Geography:- A Key Criterion

Today, the selection criterion has also changed massively, when BJP is in power. The BJP when in power has usually prioritised giving adequate geographic representation to the 4 different regions of India, which are:- North, South, East & West. When, Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the prime minister, he belonged from North India or to be more precise from Central India, the national president was the legend Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam who was from Rameshwaram, the party presidents from 1999-2004 were:- Bangaru Laxman, Jana Krishnamurthi and Venkaiah Naidu, all belonging to Southern India. The Vice President, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat belonged from West Indian state of Rajasthan, even during the Vajpayee era it can be seen that BJP tried its best to maintain regional balance in India, since BJP was not an influential player in East indian states of Odisha, West Bengal etc. hence that region never got enough representation in any of  the 4 posts.

The Modi era of BJP has been starkly different, as BJPs geographic spread has included even East India and barring a few south Indian states, the BJP is seen as a key contender in 3/5 south Indian states today, while in AP & TN,it depends on its allies which include parties like TDP, AIADMK etc. 

The result is that, the 2 presidents (Ram Nath Kovind & Droupadi Murmu) have belonged from East India, Vice Presidents (Venkaiah Naidu, Jagdeep Dhankar & CP Radhakrishnan), 2/3 have belonged from South India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is from West India and the BJP National Presidents (Amit Shah & JP Nadda)  have belonged from West & North India respectively. Now, 1 thing is clear that geographical representation and proportion is a key component in determining the national president in BJP. Given, the party has its representation, East, South & West India in the positions of President, Vice President & Prime Minister, it should not be a surprise that the next president is from North India only. 

Another aspect is that, BJP has never repeated a party president from the same state as it can run into the risk of having state based factions in the national leadership, hence even in North India, the probability of a BJP president from Himachal Pradesh looks bleak as of now. I dont think that, being a member of Rajya Sabha or Lok Sabha would be a major criterion for selection.

Caste & Ties with Sangh Parivar

The second key component in determining the national president of BJP is definitely, the ties of the national president with Sangh Parivar. This criterion is fairly straightforward and consistent, as all the BJP National presidents in the past, have had a very strong background in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Given this and the loss of seats in 2024 Lok Sabha in the Hindi hinterland areas where the presence of Sangh Parivar is strong, also makes it more probable that, the next president of BJP maybe someone who can maintain cordial ties between BJPs organisation and that of its parent organisation, the RSS.

The final component is caste balance, while keeping Uttar Pradesh as the key focus area, there are 2 trends that can be seen in the appointment of all BJP presidents, is that they must be able to influence the politics of UP which in many ways is dependent on the endogenous variables of national politics in general. The second, trend is that, BJP has rarely repeated the national presidents from the same caste group for example, the last 4 presidents, namely Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari and JP Nadda, have belonged from different castes which have a critical say in the politics of Uttar Pradesh & other states of India. 

Therefore, the probability of BJP going ahead with a Brahmin face as the next national president is also less probable, additionally the probability of BJP going ahead with leaders from communities who only belong to a specific state also looks less probable. Even  3 south Indian presidents of the party belonged to Dalit groups or from the OBC community which has a significant presence in UP. The BJP has also gone ahead with faces who are active in the national politics scenario which again bleaks the chances of state level leaders in the country.

 

Possible Contenders

Keeping the above factors in mind and the unique conclusions we have drawn, here are the possible contenders, who can become the national president of BJP  in the upcoming time. 

1.Satish Poonia:- Satish Poonia is currently serving as the general secretary of BJP. He hails from Marwar region of Rajasthan and has served as the state president of Rajasthan BJP in the early 2020s. He hails from the Jat community, which has a significant presence in the lok sabha segments of:- Kairana, Muzzafarnagar, Saharanpur, Rampur, Moradabad, Agra, Fathepur Sikri, Nagina, Bijnor, Baghpat, Meerut, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Hathras amongst others in UP. Additionally, Jats are seen as a critical voting bloc in Haryana and Rajasthan, which makes them an influential vote bank which any party would like to seek in the longer run.

Satish Poonia served as the election incharge in Haryana vidhan sabha elections, post which the national political mood changed in the favour of BJP, giving him the post will allow BJP to recapture some of the Jat votes which it lost in good numbers during the 2024 Lok sabha elections, due to various factors like - Agrarian distress, farmers protests amongst others. 

Given, BJP has a strong organisation in these states, making a Jat face as the national president may help BJP consolidate its position. He has been a politician who is associated with the ABVP & RSS from his younger days, which make him a very strong candidate. Making a Jat as party president would also reduce dependency on parties like RLD whose vote shift was very weak in the 2024 Lok sabha election results, which can be seen by the fact that, BJP won in Jat heartland seats like Muzzafarnagar in 2019, when RLD was with UPA.

Also given, BJPs preference for "younger 'politicians which is evident from their CM picks in critical states, Satish Poonia who is 60 years old may fit the bill well. Given, the influence of Jats on national politics, the BJP can also look at other leaders from the community, as the community has very little national representation currently post the resignation of Jagdeep Dhankar. Possible leaders from the community who may fit this bill are - Om Prakash Dhankar, Rajkumar Chahar & Captain Abhimanyu, both who also hail from Haryana.

2. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat:- The second darkhorse in the race is Gajendra Singh Shhekhawat. He is currently the minister of tourism & culture and has been a minister in the Modi government since last 6 years. He also hails from Marwar region of Rajasthan and has twice defeated political heavyweights in the Jodhpur Lok sabha constituency. He is around 58 years of age, which again is consistent with BJPs narrative of young blood infusion into politics. He has been the incharge of Punjab BJP in the 2022 election where BJP performed poorly primarily due to the farmer's protest, however, he was credited with revining the party fortunes later on in the year.

He has had prior work experience in the RSS scheme of things and additionally, is considered to be a close confidant of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. His hailing from Rajput community, where the anger of the community costed BJP seats like Pratapgarh, Prayagraj, Dhaurahara, Sitapur, Kheri, Kannauj, Etah, Arrah, Buxar, Aurangabad, Sasaram, Karakat, Jehanabad, Churu etc. may help BJP to recover the lost base in the community. Additionally, his elevation would make him only the second Rajput president in BJPs history after Rajnath Singh. Possible leaders from the community who may fit this bill are:- Trivendra Singh Rawat, Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Radha Mohan Singh amongst others.

However, the appointment of a Rajput president is also slightly difficult given, that, BJP already has representation in the form of Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath whose pre sant samaj life was of a Rajput and Rajasthan DCM Diya Kumari who is a rising star in Rajasthan politics.

3. Ganesh Singh:- Ganesh Singh is currently serving as a fifth term MP from the Satna lok sabha segment located in the state of Madhya Pradesh. He is a leader who hails from Kurmi community, another community which has a range of influence starting from Awadh region of UP upto Mayurbhanj district of UP. This also includes regions like Purvanchal & states like Jharkhand & Bihar, where the NDA lost seats in good numbers due to not having enough Kurmi leadership in its ranks.

Seats such as Ayodhya, Ambedkar Nagar in UP and some seats in West Bengal like Bankura were lost as this community's support base has been slipping consistently. In this case, making a Kurmi as its national president who also has a strong background in RSS & ABVP, may help BJP to re-energize its cadre  in these areas. This would also allow BJP to startegically eat into the base of parties like Apna Dal & JDU, who have seemed to struggle a bit since the past 5-6 years. Other faces from Kurmi community who may fit this bill are:- Jyotirmoy Singh Mahato, Pankaj Chaudhary and Swatantra Dev Singh.

 

However, the appointment of Ganesh Singh is a little bit difficult given, that BJP already has 3 OBC leaders, namely, Mohan Yadav who is current MP CM, Shivraj Singh Chouhan & Jyotiraditya Scindia who are union ministers, making a fourth leader from the similar Malwa or Bundelkhand region, may end up creating parallel power centers which the party may wish to avoid.

4. Brijmohan Agarwal:- The other face in the race, can be current MP from Raipur, Brijmohan Agarwal. Brijmohan Agarwal is a 7 time MLA from Raipur city and is the first MP from Raipur. He belongs to the bania community which has consistently supported BJP since its formation. His background in ABVP  & RSS may help him to bag the top post. The bania community is influential across all the states of North India and it would mean a full support from RSSs top brass in the longer run as well. Given Chattissgarh is a BJP stronghold state, an appointment from the state, may send out a good signal to the BJP leaders from the smaller states in the country. His appointment would also help in to bring Chattissgarh into national focus given the state's push to go onto a path of development after facing the brunt of naxalism for decades. Other faces from the bania community can be:- Radha Mohan Das Agarwal amongst others. Him being close to 67 years, would also not post a parallel leadership challenge to existing trioka of Arun Sao, Vishnu Deo Sai and Vijay Sharma. Other faces from Chattisgarh can be:- Lata Usendi, Renuka Singh Saruta, Tokhan Sahu and Santosh Pandey.

5. Virendra Kumar Khatik:- The other face in the race can be current MP from Tikamgarh, Virendra Kumar Khatik.Khatik is a multiple time MP from Tikamgarh and has been serving as a union minister in various ministries since the past few years. He belongs from the Dalit community and from the Bundelkhand region, where BJP saw substantial losses in the 2024 lok sabha elections. In fact, the BJP lost a lot of dalit reserved seats in 2024, primarily because of the opposition's campaign on reservation and constitution change. With BJP also conducting the caste census in 2026, having a dalit president of the party who has a very strong RSS background, may help, BJP to not only set the optics right but also regain some of the Non Jatav Dalit votes which it lost in Uttar Pradesh in 2024 elections. Given, BJP doesnt have a single Dalit CM, though it does have, multiple dalit deputy CMs like Jagdish Devda & Prem Chand Bairwa. Him being a low profile and a 70 year old leader, will prevent formation of power centers within the party which is also ideal in a party like BJP, where every leader has a replacement ready. Other faces from the Dalit community can be:- Baby Rani Maurya, Dushyant Kumar Gautam and Shantanu Thakur amongst others.

6. Pratima Bhowmik:- The other face in the race can be former West Tripura MP, Pratima Bhowmik. She was a strong contender to become the CM of tripura post the 2023 election results as is called as Tripura didi in the party circles. Pratima Bhowmik belongs from the North East region of the country and having its first woman president from the North east which still has matriarchial society, today, would help BJP to enter into a new age of inclusion politics. This would also give a chance to the party to corner the congress, who has never made any person from the Northeast as its national president. Pratima Bhowmik is also from the Bengali speaking group, which has a massive presence in states of West Bengal, Tripura, Meghalaya amongst others. Her being a former MoS in the Modi cabinet along with being a long term RSS member can count as brownie points for her. Being from North east would also help BJP to neutralize, the caste equations that are massively prevalent in the country and actually make politics development oriented.Other faces from Bengali community and from North east who can be:- Biplab Kumar Deb, union minister Sarbnanda Sonowal amongst others.

7. Virendra Sachdeva:- Virendra Sachdeva is the current BJP state president of Delhi. He belongs from the state unit of a state which is very much national and whose issues disproportionately dominate the national headlines, policy issues amongst others. The delhi unit of BJP is known to be a divided house in the past, but Sachdeva was able to handle all these differences well. Him being from the Khatri community which has solidly & ideologically backed BJP since the days of Bharatiya Jana Sangh can be a gamechanger in party politics of India. Being from Delhi, he can also understand national politics better than most other leaders of the country. The Khatri community is also seen as a caste neutral community, which may help BJP to develop leaders rationally across societies in the whole of India. Sachdeva is also a lifelong RSS member and is also a part of the Archery Association of India, which can make him a useful asset in controlling sport bodies of India who have been long accused of being involved in intra body politics.Other leaders from the Khatri community who can become the national president are Harsh Malhotra, Sunil Bansal & Manohar Lal Khattar amongst others. 

Now, all the above names have been given, keeping in mind 3 factors, namely, geographical representation, caste equations and connect with the Sangh Parivar. However, politics is the most dynamic subject of the world, which can change anytime and any leader can hit the lottery. The other possible darkhorses in the race can be - Gangapuram Kishan Reddy, Ram Madhav, CR Patil, Dharmendra Pradhan, Basavaraj Bommai, Bhupendra Yadav, Smriti Irani and Om Prakash Dhurve amongst the cadres of BJP. At the end of the day, the country will have a new national president for the BJP and it would be interesting to see on who becomes the party president of India's largest political party.