India, May 3 -- As West Bengal moves into the gap between polling and counting, discussions within the Bharatiya Janata Party have turned to who could be chief minister if the party forms the government, with a broad convergence on one point. The face will have to be a "pura" , ( complete) Bengali leader from within the party.

Exit polls released on April 29th and 30th, which unanimously suggested that the BJP will form the government in India's Eastern state for the first time, have set off parallel strands of conversation across sections of the party. It is understood that the party will announce its CM candidate within one week if it wins on 4 May. Leaders and functionaries, both in the state unit and beyond, are informally weighing o...