New Delhi: Not to be left behind in the race for allies, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is also involved in behind-the-scene moves to clinch alliances, party sources said.

"The meeting between AIADMK (All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) chief J Jayalalithaa and BJP national executive member Sukumaran Nambiar in Chennai today is a step in that direction," party sources said.

Both Nambiar and party officials were tight-lipped on what transpired at the brief meeting. It was not immediately known whether he was deputed by the party high command.

Even though there does not appear to be any prospects of a tie-up with Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), BJP general secretary Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and his party colleague Prakash Javadekar greeting BSP president Mayawati on her birthday was "part of the party's strategy to isolate Congress", the sources said.