Imphal/New Delhi, Feb. 11 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) held crucial closed-door meetings with potential chief ministerial candidates in Imphal on Monday, even as the party's central leadership prepared to meet Kuki-Zo legislators in New Delhi later this week, in a complex effort to find a successor following N Biren Singh's resignation.

The parallel developments underscore the attempts to find a leader who can both address the ethnic conflict between Meitei and Kuki communities - where Biren Singh stood accused of partisan handling - and unite a fractured party unit.

While an estimated 5-10 MLAs from the party had indicated in recent days that they might not back Singh's government in the event of a no-confidence motion, which wo...