Patna, March 8: The BJP will have a brainstorming session here tomorrow in its search for ?independent space?, though in consonance with its senior partner, the Janata Dal (United).

Party national president Rajnath Singh is slated to address the state-level workers? meeting, which will also see the participation of senior BJP leaders and ministers in the Nitish Kumar government.

The chief minister?s statement in the Assembly that he does not need a certificate in secularism from ?pseudo seculars? has come as music to the BJP, which had been pressing this line since long. The party is also enthused by Nitish categorically stating that the BJP was with the government in its efforts to punish the guilty in the 1989 Bhagalpur riots.

The bonanza for the BJP came today when the Assembly passed a resolution on the bomb blasts that rocked Varanasi yesterday. The RJD had opposed the passing of any such resolution as the matter did not concern Bihar.

But Speaker Uday Narain Chaudhary, after presiding over an all-party meeting, read out the resolution in the House condemning the attack and expressing the legislature?s condolences for the victims of the attack. Earlier in the morning, senior BJP leader and deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi had appealed for a ?consensus? on the matter.