Modi meets BJP leaders in Delhi

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi met the top BJP brass in the city today, and discussed strategies to face elections in about nine states in the new year ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.

Modi, who single-handedly led his party's triumph in Gujarat and has been projected ever since to play a leading role in the national scene, met former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and took his blessings.

From the airport, he drove straight to L K Advani's residence where the top leaders, including Rajnath Singh and Murli Manohar Joshi, discussed the party's wins in the assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh.

Advani, projected by the BJP as its Prime Ministerial candidate, had already termed the twin wins as the start of a "process of change" that will see the party gain power at the centre.

The other leaders present at the meeting were Arun Jaitley, Jaswant Singh and Sushma Swaraj.

"The leaders deliberated on strategies to take forward the enthusiastic support the party has received from the people," BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters here.

Modi also discussed the formation of his ministry in Gujarat. "I discussed cabinet formation in Gujarat," Modi said.