The BJP top leadership remains non-committal Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as its PM candidate in general elections 2014. But, chorus within the party backing Modi grows louder. Modi earlier literally spelt out that his job in Gujarat is finished that he is ready for the big challenge on the national stage. Amid calls for a larger role for him, Modi won singular praise from BJP President Rajnath Singh for being the "most popular" CM having registered "never before" three consecutive electoral wins for the party in Gujarat. However, Rajnath left the PM candidate question open, saying that it's upto the Parliamentary board to take the final call. Even as the NaMo chant is growing louder, the clamour for senior leader LK Advani is also rising. Senior BJP leader Uma Bharti speaking on the BJP's poster boy has said that merely being a crowd puller doesn't make one a PM candidate. Bharti added that nobody within the BJP can match LK Advani in stature. The cracks within the BJP are thus out in the open. NDA ally JD(U) has bluntly told BJP that Modi - who faces the taint of post-Godhra 2002 riots in Gujarat - is not acceptable as the PM candidate. JD(U) had given an eight-month deadline to its ally BJP to declare its PM candidate having "secular credibility beyond doubt" for the next general election. Bihar CM Nitish Kumar also indicated his opposition on projecting Modi as BJP's PM candidate. Shiv Sena, another of BJP's oldest ally, sought to put pressure on the party seeking a meeting of the NDA to decide on the name of a PM candidate. Sena cautioned that BJP should take the allies into confidence on the PM choice or else there could be a "Mahabharat" (squabble). It's turning out to be everybody versus Modi.