On Wednesday, the party top leadership – Modi, Singh, Arun Jaitley and Nitin Gadkari – had met to reach a consensus that Shah was the frontrunner for the post of BJP president. Other names that have been discussed for the BJP top post were J P Nadda and Om Mathur. Both are Rajya Sabha MPs.
Senior party leadership had earlier decided to wait until the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh working committee meeting to discuss the issue when it is scheduled to meet at Dhar in Madhya Pradesh around mid-July. However, the view now in the Sangh Parivar is that they should appoint a new party president before the start of the next Parliament session on July 7.
So going by this perspective the BJP can announce Amit Shah as party president as early as next week.
