Reports quoting unnamed BJP leaders said the party was cobbling together an alternative alliance in Maharashtra following fissures in its relationship with the Shiv Sena ahead of the assembly polls in 2009.
The Left has never been comfortable with Kalam and had even put up the late Captain Lakshmi Sehgal when the NDA sought to make him a consensus candidate in 2002 and the Congress had no option left but to support him.
The Congress party has said that it is ready to accept Raj in the party-fold provided he gives up the Sena ideology and accepts the leadership of party President Sonia Gandhi.
