Though the TDP prefers to go it alone in the elections, the party leadership, at a meeting held under the stewardship of party president and Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, decided to wait for some time before taking a stand on electoral adjustments, in view of the fluid political situation.

The TDP leadership is confronted with a new situation as none of its erstwhile allies, the Communist Party of India, CPI (Marxist) and Janata Dal, are with it now. Moreover, so far, the party has been maintaining a distance from the BJP at the political level even after extending issue-based support to the Vajpayee government.

Senior leaders who were present at the meeting like spokesman Ummareddy Venkateswarlu, general secretary S M Lal Jan Basha, Ministers T Devender Goud, AMadhava Reddy, Tummala Nageswara Rao and K Chandrasekhar Rao are understood to have expressed divergent views on the issue.

According to sources, while some of them favoured a lone battle, so as to woo the minorities, others insisted on entering into "some sort of understanding'' with the BJP for the Lok Sabha polls -- they believed the BJP was no longer an `untouchable' as was the case a few years ago.

Naidu is understood to have heard their views patiently without taking any sides. The meeting also discussed the prevailing political situation in the State and the possible role of the Left parties, who of late have been opposing the Naidu government vehemently.

Briefing mediapersons later, Naidu, however, maintained that the TDP's relations with the BJP were limited to extending "issue-based support" to the Vajpayee government. He refused to say any more, despite journalists grilling him on poll adjustments with the BJP.