National Democratic Alliance partners will meet in New Delhi on Monday in the backdrop of the controversy generated over the Bharatiya Janata Party's attempts to revive the Hindutva issue.

The allies are expected to ask the BJP to make its stand clear on Hindutva and contentious issues like Ayodhya, Article 370 and the Uniform Civil Code.

The BJP-led alliance had run a coalition for six years under the National Agenda of Governance in which the saffron party had kept in abeyance the contentious issues dear to it.

The meeting was convened following a demand by the Janata Dal-United, a BJP ally, at its recent National Executive meeting, which adopted a resolution saying that it joined the NDA only after the three controversial issues had been removed from the agenda.

"If any effort is now made to revive them, we shall have to take another road. We shall never compromise with religious bigotry," the resolution had said.

The meeting is being held at a time when preparations have begun among political parties for the assembly elections in Bihar, Jharkhand and Haryana, and the alliance could discuss how to avoid split in the NDA vote.

This is the NDA's first meeting after L K Advani took over as the BJP president from M Venkaiah Naidu last month.