BJP ready to ally with anyone backing Advani as PM: Naidu

Amidst reports that it is on a hunt for new allies after the success with TRS, BJP today claimed there were any number of parties willing to tie up with it but TDP has made it clear it is with the Third Front.       

BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu, widely speculated by media that he would try to rope in former ally Chandrababu Naidu into the NDA, arrived in Hyderabad saying his party will talk to others only after the evening of May 16 when Lok Sabha election results would be out.       

"Any party which is willing to support Advani as Prime Minister, any party which is willing to work with the NDA is welcome.This is the general stand and there are a number of people who are inclined towards us," said he.       

"But I don't want to name any party, any leader and won't talk to anybody till the elections are over," Venkaiah Naidu told reporters, expressing confidence that BJP and its allies would emerge as the single-largest group.