Top BJP leaders held a four-hour meeting on Monday.

Top BJP leaders, including Amit Shah and JP Nadda, held a four-hour meeting on Monday regarding the Rajya Sabha elections and the presidential election just two months away.

Both the BJP-led coalition and the opposition have made preparations to field their candidates for the new President of India.

BJP leaders met at Nadda's house on Monday evening, a day before the nomination for voting for the 57 seats in the Rajya Sabha began on June 10.

The effect of Rajya Sabha election will also be on the Presidential election.

President Ram Nath Kovind's term ends on July 25.

The opposition is yet to announce a joint presidential candidate and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao or KCR and Maharashtra leader Sharad Pawar are holding meetings to build a consensus.

BJP has 48.9% votes of all MPs and MLAs.

The opposition and other parties have 51.1 per cent votes.

The BJP needs only Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's BJD (Biju Janata Dal) or Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy's YSR Congress to support its candidate. 

KCR, who has been working for a non-Congress, non-BJP front for the 2024 general election, is meeting key opposition leaders.

Apparently using the presidential election as a test case.

Recently KCR met his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal.

He had earlier met Uddhav Thackeray, Sharad Pawar, Akhilesh Yadav and spoke to MK Stalin and Mamta Banerjee over phone.

He is also expected to meet former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda in Karnataka.

KCR will also meet both Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav in Bihar.

Nitish Kumar, whose relations with ally BJP have been strained for some time now, has not been supporting the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate in the last few presidential elections.

Nitish Kumar's move to go ahead with an all-party meeting on the caste census - which Tejashwi Yadav wants but the BJP is opposing - is seen as a major setback for his ally.

This raises the question whether he will support the NDA candidate this time.

He has also indicated that he will not send his party leader, Union Minister RCP Singh, to the Rajya Sabha again.

Singh is close to BJP leaders and has always acted as a messenger of Nitish Kumar.

Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan recently met Nitish Kumar in Patna and reportedly discussed the Presidential election.

Other "mediators" of the BJP are also working to consolidate support.

Naveen Patnaik and GVL Narasimha Rao are in touch with Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav Jagan Reddy.

The Congress is unlikely to field a candidate of its choice, especially as Rahul Gandhi's "lack of ideology" remarks on regional parties has angered Congress allies such as the RJD.