Lucknow, Nov. 28 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which named 14 more district presidents on Wednesday, appears to have fast-tracked the process to appoint a new state chief whose selection is long overdue.

The buzz on this front has grown stronger in the run-up to the 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections and the 2026 panchayat polls even as the party weighs various factors and fine-tunes the caste matrix to counter the Samajwadi Party's PDA formula.

With the incumbent Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary's tenure having ended in January 2024, the names of senior BJP leaders are doing the rounds for the post, including one of the two deputy CMs in the state.

While the front-runners have long years of organisational experience, proximity to c...