A day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [Images] asked the National Democratic Alliance to support the United Progressive Alliance candidate for the President's post, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday said it will discuss all the options, including Singh's request, at its next meeting.

"We will discuss all the options at our next meeting," senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj said on Sunday when asked to comment on Dr Singh's remarks.

"I hope this time the NDA would endorse the candidate who is suggested by the UPA and Left allies," Dr Singh said on Saturday, reminding the opposition alliance that last time when President A P J Abdul Kalam was nominated by them, Congress had backed him.

"We have authorised Atal Bihari Vajpayee to take a final decision on the NDA strategy for presidential elections. He is carrying out all the negotiations on behalf of NDA and in our next meeting, he will brief about all the developments," she said on the sidelines of a seminar organised by the party's cultural unit to condemn the controversial paintings of M F Husain and a M S University student.

Referring to the exhibitions of such paintings, Swaraj said this kind of controversy has become a trend to sell products.

"The market trend is that if you want to sell your product then first publicise it projecting it as controversial and that will create inquisitiviness among masses and the product will be sold out," she said adding, "nobody should be allowed to play with the sentiments of a community."