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With exit polls predicting a hung verdict in the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, top BJP leaders from the state arrived in Delhi on Friday keeping 'all options open' on the post-poll combination for government formation and conceded the party and its allies would not get a majority on their own.
However, Chief Minister Rajnath Singh and state BJP president Kalraj Mishra maintained that efforts would be to form a BJP-led government with a BJP chief minister.
Most exit polls had predicted Samajwadi Party to emerge as the single-largest group, BJP as the second major group and BSP in the third place with a significant number that could play a crucial role in the formation of the next government.
"Nothing can be ruled out and it all depends on the outcome of the election results on Sunday. But, so far there have been no talks with any of the parties, including the Bahujan Samaj Party on the issue of government formation," Singh and Mishra told reporters.
The two are scheduled to meet central leaders, including Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Home Minister L K Advani, BJP president Jana Krishnamurthy and former president Kushbhau Thakre on Saturday to discuss the strategy for the post-poll political situation in the state.
They said as they were going to discuss the situation in the state, they did not want to spell out what moves are afoot.
On the question of post-poll alliance in the wake of the party and its allies failing to get the requisite number in the 403-member assembly, he said he did not see such a possibility.
However, he said the party would wait and see what was the political scenario after the results were out.
BJP sources said the party should either have its chief minister or sit in the opposition and there was no question of repeating the previous experiment of having an alliance with the BSP.
PTI
