Biju Janata Dal supremo and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who was the first to advocate an alternative government minus the Congress and BJP at the Centre, today said it was still too early for such a move.

"I think, the moment is still in early days as I have said earlier," Patnaik told reporters in reply to a question on the BJD's absence at the meeting of Left and secular parties in New Delhi during the day.

The BJD had sent a representative, Kendrapara MP Baijayant Panda, in an earlier meeting in Delhi on October 30 last year. Though today's meeting at New Delhi was attended by the JD-U,Samajwadi Party, AIADMK, JD-S, Jharkhand Vikas Morcha and four Left party leader, the BJD and Prafulla Kumar Mahanta's Asom Gana Parishad were absent.