The Akali Dal, which is the other key ally of the BJP, apart from the Shiv Sena, says they were supporting Narendra Modi for PM from Day 1. The party, in a statement to CNN IBN says that the BJP can now get its act together and sort out its differences.

Strangely enough, the BJP did not make the announcement on its PM candidate, it was the Shiv Sena.

Meanwhile, Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh has said that the country will never accept Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP's possible prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi as he can not keep the nation united. "A person, who, because of his personal ambitions, broke his own alliance and created a controversy in his own party can neither keep the nation united, nor the people will ever accept him," Singh said last night.