New Delhi: BJP is all set on Friday to declare Narendra Modi the party's prime ministerial candidate after hectic parleys by senior leaders to convince L K Advani, Sushma Swaraj and Murli Manohar Joshi to give up their opposition to the decision.
BJP parliamentary board will meet at 5:30pm at the party headquarters here, it was announced.
While Joshi is said to have been won over, last minute efforts were on to bring around Advani and Swaraj.
The decision to convene the panel meeting came after Rajnath Singh held a meeting with Advani.
Earlier, BJP leader Nitin Gadkari met party president Rajnath Singh to discuss the issue. Later, Gadkari met Advani to persuade him on Modi's name. Swaraj and Ananth Kumar also joined the meeting.
Advani had conveyed his reservations about announcing Modi's name at this juncture.
He had suggested that the BJP chief ministers should be consulted on the issue and the party should wait till the forthcoming assembly elections to Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Delhi are over.
