Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has an extensive programme for his visit to Bengal today that will culminate with a meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee tomorrow.
Mr Naidu will address two rallies today, and tomorrow the two leaders will share stage at a rally in Kharagpur, a town near Kolkata, where Ms Banerjee was monitoring the ground situation ahead of last week's Cyclone Fani.
Mr Naidu will be coming from Delhi, where he had a meeting with Congress chief Rahul Gandhi to discuss the plans for an opposition meeting on May 21, two days before the counting of votes takes place.
Mr Naidu's move is seen as a part of a sudden consolidation among the opposition parties in face of a renewed push for a non-Congress, non-BJP Federal Front "in the 1996 formula" by Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao. KCR as he is popularly known in the state, met Pinarayi Vijayan, his Kerala counterpart, yesterday.
While the move for such a front has not gained much traction yet, in case of a hung verdict, Mr Rao is likely have a following.