Top BJP leaders - Arun Jaltley (L) Rajnath Singh (C) and Nitin Gadkari (R) - meet Narendra Modi at his residence in Gandhinagar, Gujarat on May 14, 2014.
With the NDTV Exit Polls predicting a victory for the BJP and its allies, the party's top leaders are assembling their strategy for what happens after the results are announced on Friday. At a series of meetings on Saturday, they expect to discuss government formation.
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The BJP's central parliamentary board, the party's top-decision making body, will meet in the Capital on Saturday, May 17, a day after the results are announced, to take stock of the Lok Sabha election results.
After that meeting, the BJP's newly-elected MPs will formally elect Narendra Modi as their leader. This was decided at a meeting Mr Modi had with party chief Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley and Nitin Gadkari in Gandhinagar on Wednesday night. (The BJP's New A-Team)
Mr Modi, the BJP's presumptive prime minister, was in his home state of Gujarat yesterday. His three party colleagues landed there in the evening to meet with him. (BJP Initiates Moves to Decide Roles for Sushma Swaraj, LK Advani)
Before flying from Delhi, top BJP leaders met with party veteran LK Advani and Sushma Swaraj to reportedly discuss their roles if a Modi government is formed. (Exit Polls: Numbers Stack Up in Favour of BJP-Led NDA)
The NDTV exit poll shows Mr Modi leading the BJP to a majority. Even if the BJP-led alliance does get more than the 272 seats it needs to form the government, Mr Modi may still want more partners in order to have a stable coalition.
Many analysts have predicted he will strike a deal with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and her AIADMK - the NDTV exit poll gives her 32 seats, which could make her party the third largest in Parliament after the BJP and the Congress.
Mr Modi has indicated that he is open to new alliances in a post-election blog. "This is the right time to look ahead. It is a time to connect with each other," he wrote on Monday. "Let us place people over politics, hope over despair, healing over hurting, inclusion over exclusion and development over divisiveness," he added. (Also Read: Narendra Modi's Post-Poll Analysis on Twitter)
An expression of interest came from the AIADMK yesterday. "Modi is great friend of Jayalalithaa, they may differ politically. If he becomes PM, then Madam would like close ties, said AIADMK leader K Malaisamy. (Read More...)
Another regional heavyweight - Naveen Patnaik, chief minister of Odisha - has not ruled out supporting a government led by Mr Modi. (Read More...)
On Tuesday, a senior leader from Mr Patnaik's party, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) said it could offer "conditional support" to a BJP government.
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