Even as RSS and BJP leaderships remain at loggerheads over the curt removal of Kummanam Rajasekharan from the post of BJP state president, the possibility of an immediate ice breaking session, involving key leaders, appears a tad remote. The RSS leaders, contrary to the initial programme schedule, are unlikely to meet Amit Shah, who will arrive in the state for a day’s visit on Tuesday.

As per Shah’s initial programme schedule released by BJP state general secretary on Saturday, the party national leader was to meet senior representatives of Sangh Parivar outfits by Tuesday evening. A revised schedule released on Monday, however, is silent on this meeting. The annual meeting of RSS has come to a close on Monday and it was expected that RSS state chief Gopalankutty Master would travel to the state capital, from Adoor in Pathanamthitta, to meet Shah.

“The Sangh leaders, at least majority among them, are in no mood to even reflect on the predicament the BJP state unit now try to grapple with, following the sudden removal of Rajasekharan. The Sangh is upset over the way BJP treated him, who is basically an RSS pracharak. Before assigning new responsibilities on him, the BJP should have taken RSS’s consent,” sources said.

Shah is expected to express the central leadership’s dissatisfaction over the murky factional feud the BJP leaders are involved in the state. Rajasekharan’s removal was also a result of the central leadership’s assessment that he failed to carry out his responsibility in extirpating the roots of factionalism in Kerala.

However, a large section of BJP leaders, cutting across their factional affiliation to former state presidents V Muraleedharan and P K Krishnadas, are equally confident that the central leadership won’t dare consider any new face to the vacant post. “The choices are very few. But it’s sure that the party won’t consider anybody outside Kerala to head the post,” sources said. In fact, the BJP state leaders are waiting for a consensus candidate, without hurting either of the political camps, even at the cost of the party’s electoral prospects.