Only a unified Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is acceptable to the BJP as an NDA ally — this is a message conveyed by the top leadership of the BJP to its allies in Maharashtra, amid speculations that the NCP (SP) [Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar] may reconsider its support to the Delimitation Bill under certain conditions, and that this softening could be a percussor to a wider talk of alliance.