Union Home Minister and BJP president Amit Shah is likely to continue as the party chief till the Assembly polls in Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Haryana are completed later this year, a Deccan Chronicle report said. Polls are also slated to take place in Jammu and Kashmir by the end of the year.
Sources told Deccan Chronicle that there is a rising demand within both the BJP and the RSS for Shah to continue as the party president till October, when Assembly polls in these key BJP-led states are over.