It's a day of crucial meetings for the BJP as after its historic win the party's focus now shifts to government formation. Narendra Modi, who will be the country's next prime minister, met senior BJP leader LK Advani. He is also scheduled to meet party president Rajnath Singh later today as he looks to finalise the names that will feature in his cabinet.
Here are the latest developments:
In the latest in today's series of meetings, Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan visited Mr Modi along with his wife and son Chirag.
BJP president Rajnath Singh is also holding meetings at his residence in New Delhi. Mr Singh met senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley and organisational secretary Ram Lal as the party discusses government formation. Mr Modi's close aide Amit Shah also joined in.
Mr Modi is expected to visit the Jhandewalan office of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS.
The RSS is the ideological mentor of the BJP. Mr Modi is a former RSS pracharak or campaigner. Before he meets the RSS, Mr Modi could visit former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
At Gujarat Bhawan, where he is staying, Mr Modi was visited by senior BJP leader Ananth Kumar, who had met Mr Advani earlier this morning. The BJP leadership has to decide what role Mr Advani will play in Mr Modi's regime. Sources say Mr Advani, who was the BJP's prime ministerial candidate in 2009, wants to be Lok Sabha Speaker.
Mr Modi met several other leaders at Gujarat Bhawan. Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje and Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio visited him. (Read More)
BS Yeddyurappa, the controversial former Karnataka chief minister who rejoined the BJP just before the elections and has won from Shimoga, also met Mr Modi.
BJP general secretary Dharmendra Pradhan who has charge of Bihar, too met Mr Modi. This meeting has significance in view of the political developments in the state, where chief minister Nitish Kumar resigned yesterday owning "moral responsibility" for his party's rout in the general elections. Mr Kumar is widely seen as having been punished by voters for splitting with the BJP last year, citing the elevation in the party of Mr Modi, his arch political rival. His Janata Dal (United) has won only two of Bihar's 40 seats. The BJP has won 31.
In other meetings, former BJP president Venkaiah Naidu visited the RSS' Delhi office and emphatically denied that the Sangh will have any role to play in deciding on members of the cabinet. "It is a routine meeting... don't know why there is so much of talk about it," he said.
On Tuesday the 282 new BJP members of Parliament will elect Mr Modi their leader and he will be sworn in as Prime Minister on a date to be decided. The invitation list for that ceremony runs to about 3000, sources have said. (Also Read: Narendra Modi Assures Jayalalithaa of 'Absolute Cooperation' Between Centre, Tamil Nadu)
