Just in: Right now, top BJP leaders, including Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Shahnawaz Husain and Ravi Shankar Prasad are meeting Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan and his son, Chirag.

The alliance between BJP and LJP is likely to be announced in a couple of days as the party's parliamentary board authorised Paswan to take a final decision in this regard and did not hide its bitterness towards Lalu Prasad's RJD.  Read more