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BJP upbeat ahead of polls results

Star Report
The Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition is gearing up to form a new government amid media predictions of its victory in the just concluded Lok Sabha elections.
Ahead of the vote counting today, BJP President Rajnath Singh, senior party leader Arun Jaitley and former president Nitin Gadkari flew to Gandhinagar to meet prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
"The discussion is about who will join the government and who will stay back in the organisation... We haven't come down to talking about portfolios yet,” a senior leader told the Hindustan Times hours before the three party leaders took a chartered flight to Ahmedabad for a closed-door meeting with Modi.
After a three-hour-long meeting in Gandhinagar, the capital of Gujarat, whose chief minister is Modi, on Wednesday night, Rajnath told the media that his party would convene a meeting of its parliamentary board, the highest decision-making forum,
FROM PAGE 1 in New Delhi tomorrow. There the party will draw up a plan to elect Modi at the earliest as the leader of the BJP parliamentary party comprised of the newly-elected members oftheLokSabha.
The parliamentary board will decide what roles veterans like Lal Krishna Advani, who opposed Modi's appointment as prime ministerial candidate, and Murli Manohar Joshi, who was unwilling to shift from Varanasi parliamentary constituency where Modi eventually contested this year's polls, will play, Rajnath said.
Tomorrow's meeting will also set the date of the meeting of lawmakers from all constituent parties of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance, apart from that of BJP parliamentary party meeting.
All exit polls forecast that the BJP-led NDA will win a majority in the 543-seat Lok Sabha.
Exit polls in India, however, have gone wrong in the past.
Modi, who single-handedly led the BJP's election campaign mainly on the plank of development, governance, investment and jobs, is expected to become India's 14th prime minister after the official results are declared today.
The vote counting is likely to be completed by 5:00pm (Indian time), the Election Commission said.
By noon, a final picture will emerge on who are going to be the major players in the 16th Lok Sabha.
Before the meeting in
Gandhinagar, Rajnath Singh, Gadkari and another senior party figure Sushma Swaraj held separate meetings in Delhi.
According to media reports, Swaraj, the leader of the opposition, might be the new foreign or defence minister while Jaitley could get the finance portfolio.
Swaraj had reportedly voiced reservations about Modi as the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, and did not play a major role in the election campaign and limited herself to the electoral battle in her own constituency in Vidisha in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
Advani, a former deputy PM under Atal Bihari Vajpayee, has already indicated that he will not join a Modi-led government and may be elevated to the position of NDA chairman, which earlier was held by Vajpayee. Advani is currently working chairman of the NDA.
Media reports predict that Advani and Joshi may also be considered for the parliament Speaker post.
The NDA is projected to get 279 seats in the Lok Sabha elections, crossing the required majority mark for the 543-member House. The BJP alone is likely to bag the highest-ever tally of 235 seats, according to NDTV-Hansa exit polls aired on Wednesday night.
The exit poll results showed that the ruling United Progressive Alliance would get 103 seats, with the Congress projected to get only 79, its all-time low.