Buoyed by the exit polls result giving the NDA a clear mandate, the Bharatiya Janata Party has now gone into a huddle to chalk out a post poll strategy. The party is also deliberating on who will be Narendra Modi's successor as the Gujarat Chief Minister.

Modi will discuss with the top leadership of the BJP including party President Rajnath Singh and senior leader Arun Jaitley on Wednesday to figure out what should be the line of succession in Gujarat and what should be the contours of the government, which is likely to be formed under his leadership in Delhi after May 16.

According to political grapevines, Modi's close aide and Gujarat minister Anandiben Patel is likely to succeed Modi as the CM. Sources also indicated that the new CM is likely to be sworn in before May 20.

In the run up to the meeting on Wednesday, Rajnath Singh and Gadkari had a long meeting at Singh's residence in Delhi discussing the party's future strategy. They also held meetings with senior RSS leaders, sources said in Delhi. Gadkari had a chat with Modi in Gandhinagar on Monday.

As part of the flurry of high-level meetings, Gadkari met party veteran LK Advani on Tuesday in Delhi and discussed with him the unfolding situation and the post-poll scenario.

"As the BJP is the obvious front-runner to form the government, party leaders are meeting to strategise over likely scenarios which are expected to be thrown up on May 16 when the counting of votes take place," a party source said.

Sources revealed top party leaders have been meeting each other for the last couple of days. Rajnath Singh has met Sushma Swaraj while Modi held meetings with a number of leaders, including Singh, besides the Sangh leadership and Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh. However, there have been a lot of concerns as to why Sushma Swaraj is not attending Wednesday's meeting.

The meeting is basically meant to brush off opposition’s contention that Modi has a strain of despotism.