It was Jaswant Singh that raised the banner of revolt -- rather quietly -- against Advani and Arun Jaitley in a meeting of the party's core committee last week.

The Darjeeling MP circulated a one-page note at the meeting in which he called for a parity between "inam" (reward) and "parinaam" (result).

It was clear that Jaswant was not happy with the appointment of Advani and Jaitley as Opposition leaders in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, passing up veterans like himself and Joshi, who won from Varanasi.