LK Advani and MM Joshi skipped Amit Shah's election as BJP President and post-win celebrations at the BJP headquarters.
Hours after he was re-elected BJP president unchallenged, Amit Shah visited veteran leader LK Advani on Sunday night to "seek his blessings," the party said. He will visit former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and senior leader Murli Manohar Joshi today evening.
Mr Advani and Mr Joshi skipped Mr Shah's election and post-win celebrations at the BJP headquarters. Along with Mr Vajpayee, who has been unwell for some time now, the two seniors are part of what is called the Margdarshak Mandal or group of mentors, to which they were moved after Mr Shah took over as BJP chief in 2014.
The shift was seen to sideline the veterans who had always played a crucial role in the BJP's decision making till then; they lost their place in the BJP's parliamentary board, made up of the party's 13 top decision makers.
Weeks ago, after the BJP's humiliating rout in the Bihar elections, Mr Advani and Mr Joshi had along with two other leaders offered a stinging critique of Mr Shah's leadership of the party.
It was seen as an attempt to scuttle Mr Shah's re-election, but the BJP effectively doused the rebellion.
This will be Mr Shah's first full term as BJP chief. He was so far completing the term of Rajnath Singh who became a minister in the Narendra Modi government in 2014.
Amit Shah, 51, is seen as a close confidant of PM Modi and was credited with some of the high-points in the BJP's national election win in 2014, most notably its sweep of Uttar Pradesh, where it won 71 of 80 seats.
To win the UP assembly elections in 2017 is one of Mr Shah's big tasks ahead. He is also set to lead PM Modi's 2019 national campaign.
On the first day of his new term, the BJP chief was in West Bengal and attacked chief minister Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress.
West Bengal and four other states will vote in a few months.