MDMK leader Vaiko met BJP chief Rajnath Singh here on Thursday to discuss what party sources claimed a ‘strategy’ to expand the NDA in Tamil Nadu. The DMK has decided to align with the BJP and ride the Modi tide even as the BJP explores possibility of bringing in more allies like the PMK of A Ramadoss and the DMDK of Vijaykant.

“We had a fruitful discussion on the 2014 general elections,” Singh said after the half an hour-long meeting. This was the second such meeting between Vaiko and Singh in Delhi after the alliance was formally clinched and more meetings are likely to chalk out the seat-sharing between the two parties and the poll strategy ahead of elections.

The BJP is trying to expand the NDA by roping in more parties under the alliance and the MDMK is the first party in the south to have a formal alliance with it. NDA’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is expected to address a rally in Chennai on February 8 and Vaiko will share the dais with him. Vaiko had earlier said that he has decided to ally with the BJP unconditionally.

The MDMK contested four seats in Tamil Nadu in the 2009 lok Sabha election and its candidate won from Erode. Vaiko’s party polled 3.67 per cent of popular votes then. But the MDMK boycotted the 2011 Assembly election. The PMK fielded six candidates but could not win even a single seat, even though it polled 5.72 per cent votes.

Three out of 30 PMK candidates won the Assembly elections in 2011 and the PMK polled 5.23 per cent votes.