New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) national president J.P. Nadda on September 14, Sunday said that the BJP, with “14 crore” (140 million) members is now as the world’s largest political party.The BJP has been unable to find a successor to party president Nadda for a year and a half. His term as party president was extended till June 2024 at a national executive meeting of the BJP, but since then there has been no word about him being on another extension.Nadda credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 11 years in office for what he termed “politics of performance”, contrasting it with governments in the past, which were about “corruption, dynastic control and appeasement”, he alleged.Last year, before the general elections, in an interview, Nadda had credited BJP with becoming autonomous (of the RSS) in an interview to a national daily, which brought out latent tensions between the BJP and its parent organisation, the RSS. He had said, “we have grown, more capable now… the BJP runs itself.” Nadda has not named the RSS, and again chosen to credit Modi and the BJP-led government, for the BJP’s rise in membership.At a rally in Visakhapatnam, Nadda said that of the 14 crore people who are BJP members, two crore are active. He underlined that the BJP has 240 Lok Sabha MPs, about 1,500 MLAs and over 170 MLCs. “With governments in 13 states and the NDA running administrations in 20 states, the BJP represents the widest political footprint in India,” he asserted, reports The Tribune.The Wire has reported last week on how an unyielding RSS and a defiant BJP have been unable to agree on a suitable name for the party’s top job. The name of Sanjay Joshi, Narendra Modi’s bete noire in the past, as national general secretary may be in the way of finalising who will succeed Nadda.