New Delhi:
A decision on revoking the suspension of senior BJP leader and Rajya Sabha member Ram Jethmalani may be taken by Monday, sources have told NDTV. The 86-year-old lawyer-turned-politician was suspended on November 26 last year for demanding the resignation of party president Nitin Gadkari after accusations of corruption, and for daring the party to act against him on the issue of the appointment of CBI director.
Indications of a truce emerged when Mr Jethmalani met Mr Gadkari at senior BJP leader LK Advani's residence yesterday.
"At the meeting with Advani and Gadkari, Jethmalani reaffirmed his faith in the BJP's ideology and wished that the party may come to power in the country," BJP spokesman Shahnawaz Hussain told reporters yesterday.
Mr Jethmalani said he had met Mr Advani and Mr Gadkari but refused to go into the details. "Ask the leaders... I am just a sevaadhari (servant)," was his response to questions on what transpired during the meeting.
"I hope it will happen. It should happen," he had said when asked whether a decision would be taken on revoking his suspension.
The BJP's action against Mr Jethmalani was triggered after he had dared the party to take action against him. The BJP also had taken strong exception to his public dissent with senior party leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley who had written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressing their reservations over the appointment of Ranjit Sinha as the new Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Mr Jethmalani and his son Mahesh, also a party MP, had earlier created a huge storm after they had called for Mr Gadkari's exit. The senior Jethmalani, then, had also claimed that some other BJP leaders were with him on his demand. The move came as a huge embarrassment for the party which, at the time, was struggling to defend Mr Gadkari.
(With inputs from PTI)
Indications of a truce emerged when Mr Jethmalani met Mr Gadkari at senior BJP leader LK Advani's residence yesterday.
"At the meeting with Advani and Gadkari, Jethmalani reaffirmed his faith in the BJP's ideology and wished that the party may come to power in the country," BJP spokesman Shahnawaz Hussain told reporters yesterday.
Mr Jethmalani said he had met Mr Advani and Mr Gadkari but refused to go into the details. "Ask the leaders... I am just a sevaadhari (servant)," was his response to questions on what transpired during the meeting.
"I hope it will happen. It should happen," he had said when asked whether a decision would be taken on revoking his suspension.
The BJP's action against Mr Jethmalani was triggered after he had dared the party to take action against him. The BJP also had taken strong exception to his public dissent with senior party leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley who had written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressing their reservations over the appointment of Ranjit Sinha as the new Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Mr Jethmalani and his son Mahesh, also a party MP, had earlier created a huge storm after they had called for Mr Gadkari's exit. The senior Jethmalani, then, had also claimed that some other BJP leaders were with him on his demand. The move came as a huge embarrassment for the party which, at the time, was struggling to defend Mr Gadkari.
(With inputs from PTI)
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