Hyderabad, May 19 -- Patience is stretching thin for many leaders in the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Telangana unit as the state president post is still undecided. The delay in choosing the party's national president and the recent Pahalgam terror attack (and its subsequent tensions with Pakistan) have also caused inadvertent delay, said party leaders.

For nearly eight months, the names of at least half a dozen BJP leadersincluding that of Malkajgiri MP Eatala Rajender, ex-MLC Ram Chander Rao and Union minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar have been doing rounds as top contenders for the post. Bandi Sanjay, who was earlier not considered to be in the race, has once again found his name in the reckoning as he had earlier held the post till he wa...