The Tamil Nadu state BJP unit is likely to be named with the new president by next month as the race for the top post has been on the track with multiple names and speculations on who would be assuming the power in the state and fill the post of the president that has been remaining vacant for the past three months.

It has been reported that the BJP's central leadership will deploy a team consists of two senior functionaries of the party to Chennai on January 5th to table the final level discussions with the top leaders of the state's unit to finalize the name to lead the party that has backtracking in the state. The reports had stated that the two-member team would interact with the state leaders including former Union Minister Pon Radhakrishnan and L Ganesan with the view of acquiring their opinions to choose the candidate.

The senior party member has said that the invitations have been sent to all the functionaries and office-bearers across the state to attend the meeting with the two-member team deputed by the Central leadership and added that the process would be either of secret ballot voting or of tabling one-on-one interactions with the national team.

The Delhi team would disclose the report of the interactions to the party's vice-president for organizational elections following which the report goes under the audit and analysis after which it would be submitted before BJP's National President Amit Shah and working president J P Nadda. Based on the report, the candidates would be accessed with their organizational skills and abilities that would lead to the final stage of declaring the party's new president.

The post has been vacant since September after the then president Tamilisai Soundararajan was elevated as Telangana Governor. She was in the post of the President from August 2014 to September 2019. The announcement has revealed the possible names for succeeding Tamilisai and some of the names include BJP state vice-president and former ADMK minister Nainar Nagendran, state general secretaries Narendran, Karuppu Muruganadam, Vanathi Srinivasan, and K.T. Raghavan, state secretary Srinivasan, and party's national vice-president for Youth Wing A P Muruganandam are the top candidates on the race track to get elected for the state's top post.