The decisive twin victories of the BJP in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, besides buoying up sentiments in already settled NDA partners, has forced fence-sitting regional outfits to favourably reconsider their options on joining the NDA bandwagon in the next general elections.

The first among them is J Jayalalithaa?s AIADMK, who has been sending overtures to the saffron party first by publicly congratulating Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on his retaining power in the state and then inviting him over lunch to her house in Chennai on January 14.

Given the current political canvas of the country, even a reinvigorated BJP is aware of the fact that if the party wants to recapture Centre from the UPA, it has to weave a winnable alliances in the states. ?Actually, for quite some time it?s the aggregate of the states elections that allows a combination to rule at the Centre and the trend will continue for a while from now?, a senior BJP leader said.

Modi?s meeting with Jayalalithaa is coming in the backdrop where for quite sometime BJP had been sending signals to her and even twice appointments were fixed for her meeting with senior party leader LK Advani. But for some personal reasons from both sides they were cancelled.

Now with the enhanced stature of Modi in the party, where he will now be given roles to play beyond Gujarat for the party, his meeting with Jayalalithaa assumes greater political implications and if sources in the BJP are to believed ?cementing on the idea of future alliance? between the two outfits is expected to come about.

Claiming Modi to be her friend, AIADMK chief, however, cautioned media not to assign any ?greater political significance? to her meeting with Modi and ?desist from inferring? conclusions.

After the AIADMK, it is the INLD led by Om Prakash Chautala that may want to join the BJP led front. The Haryana party has already sent signals to BJP by attending Narendra Modi?s swearing in Gujarat. Ajay Chautala was seen on the dais at Sardar Patel stadium, when Modi took oath and secrecy of the office.

Meanwhile, Bhartiya Jana Shakti Party (BJS) chief Uma Bharati, though ruling out possibility of coming back to BJP, has offered alliance to the saffron outfit to join hands with her in Madhya Pradesh. The move is, however, seen as Bharati?s desperation to keep her party alive and on any future alliance it?s BJP, which has to take a call.

Moreover, other than the two, many more like National Conference, Asom Gana Parishad and Jharkhand Vikas Party, which are weighing their options to allign with the BJP.