Lok Sabha election 2024: After alliance with Nitish Kumar, what other pre-poll tie-ups BJP is looking at

After forging alliance with Nitish Kumar's JD(U) in Bihar, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is reportedly mulling alliance option in other states too. Here's a look at what the BJP and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is up to in different states:

Union Home Minister and BJP leader recently asserted that talks were on with the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD). Speaking at an event on Saturday, Shah was asked about the SAD's re-entry in the BJP-led NDA. Responding to this, the home minister was quoted by PTI as saying, "Talks are going on but nothing has been finalised."

A day later, several claimed that the talks for an alliance between the BJP and the SAD to contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Punjab "failed".

Amid such speculations, Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal also said his party's "alliance is with the BSP (Bahujan Samaj Party)...They (Congress and AAP) are thieves and have ruined Punjab." He avoided a straight answer to the question and said, “I am currently doing 'Punjab Bachao Yatra'..."

Sukhbir Singh Badal-led in September 2020 over the now-scrapped three farm laws. The Akali Dal had been among the BJP's oldest allies. It had snapped severed its ties with the BJP to protest the farm laws, which were later repealed following farmers' protests.

Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief had reportedly met Shah and BJP president JP Nadda on February 7 for talks on possible tie up with the BJP in Andhra Pradesh for the Lok Sabha and assembly polls in the state.

The general and state assembly polls are likely to be held simultaneously in Andhra Pradesh before May.

Sources told PTI that the is keen to join hands with the BJP and a section in the ruling party believes that an alliance with Naidu will help the NDA do