India, March 15 -- But the possibility of the party president belonging to a northeastern state is not being ruled out.

NEW DELHI: With Delhi elections and Holi out of the way, the new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president is likely to be announced by April first week. According to party sources and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) functionaries, with the language and the delimitation controversy coming into existence all of a sudden just when the announcement of the new party president is days away, it should not come as a surprise if the top leadership in the BJP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, select a party leader from the Southern state.

The ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) led MK Stalin ...