Who will be Selangor BN's candidate for the menteri besar post has long been on the minds of Selangorians even since the last general election.

According to highly-placed BN sources, the most likely candidate is Isham Jalil, a special officer to Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.

Isham, 41, is highly-qualified academically having studied politics, economics and law at Harvard. He also studied finance at Wharton. He now works as a political economist at the Economic Planning Unit (EPU)...