Party veteran Yashwant Sinha today met Jaswant Singh and RSS ideologue Gurumurti and the two are expected to meet Ram Jethmalani later today, reports Zee News.

Gadkari also held close door consultations with senior party leader Sushma Swaraj this morning. A section of the BJP leaders are unhappy with the current state of affairs and want Gadkari to quit as soon as possible.

They believe that corruption charges against him has dented BJP's credibility and hurt its stand on the issue of corruption. The meeting of anti-Gadkari camp leaders comes a day after Ram Jethmalani's son Mahesh Jethmalani resigned from the party national executive saying he simply could not continue with Gadkari at the helm on moral ground.

Expressing his objection with Gadkari being the party president in a strong manner, Mahesh wrote a letter to him saying, "I deem it morally and intellectually inappropriate to continue to serve on the party's National Executive Committee as long as you are the President of the BJP. I hereby tender my resignation from the same."

Ram Jethmalani has reiterated that he backs Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as the NDA's PM candidate for 2014. He also said that he is ready to be expelled from the party if his statements were constituted to be anti-party. "But the fact remains that the BJP's image will be dented if Gadkari remains in the party."