The BJP is looking to forge new alliances to inject fresh energy into the NDA at a time when several opposition leaders are trying to cobble up an alliance before the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. As part of this strategy, efforts are on between the BJP and its erstwhile partners to ease the strained relations between them.

Twenty-five years after it was formed, the NDA appeared redundant in the last nine years with perhaps just one meeting being called with the allies during this period.

However, BJP leaders do consult and inform their allies about candidates for president and vice-president elections and hold meetings with their floor leaders of both houses during Parliament sessions.

Sources said that there are talks of calling an NDA meeting by the BJP.

The BJP is currently reassessing its strategy and exploring pacts with new allies in various states.

Various recent developments, including the late Sunday night meeting between TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu and Union Home Minister Amit Shah at the latter’s residence, which was also attended by BJP president JP Nadda, was one such effort.The recent visit of PM Modi to Chandigarh to pay homage on the demise of SAD patriarch Parkash Singh Badal, followed by Nadda and Shah visiting his village to pay homage on different occasions, clearly indicate efforts being made to get close to its old allies.TDP and SAD had both moved out of the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre. They later faced crushing defeats in their respective states of Andhra Pradesh and Punjab.

Though out of the NDA, both parties stood with the BJP at crucial junctures such as supporting President Droupadi Murmu’s candidature, attending the inauguration of the new Parliament building — an event boycotted by a significant number of opposition parties.

Talking about the meeting between Naidu and Shah, BJP MP CM Ramesh from Andhra Pradesh, said it would be good for both BJP and TDP, if they come together.

“BJP already is in alliance with Jan Sena and if TDP also becomes part of this alliance, then these three parties together can sweep in 2024 in the state,” Ramesh told ET. Sources in TDP suggested that the party is keen to have an alliance with BJP and has been sending feelers.

Meanwhile, SAD leader Naresh Gujral suggested that the BJP must be reassessing its strengths, while underlining that it is more “comfortable” to have alliances with old allies.