New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party President Nitin Gadkari met party leaders Rajnath Singh and Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday morning. This came hours after the core group meet on Tuesday night, where it announced its support for Gadkari as party chief. The party leadership was also briefed by S Gurumurthy at the meet about Gadkari's businesses.
But still defiant, senior leader Ram Jethmalani insisted that Gadkari must step down to avoid weakening BJP's fight against corruption. The party's second public backing for Gadkari in a fortnight came on Tuesday, a day of hectic activities in the wake of public demand by eminent lawyer and party MP Ram Jethmalani for Gadkari's immediate resignation with apparent backing of some senior leaders including Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha.
The meeting of party's Core Group and General Secretaries discussed the issue but senior leader LK Advani kept away apparently unhappy over Gadkari's continuance in the post. Gadkari also stayed away from the meeting to which S Gurumurthy was specially invited to make a detailed presentation on the investments made in Gadkari's company Purti Sugar and Power Ltd.
"Gurumurthy, who has examined these documents, made a detailed presentation to party leaders. The meeting accepted the presentation and is convinced that there was no legal or moral wrongdoing by Gadkari," said a Joint Statement issued by senior leaders Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj after the two-hour meeting at the party headquarters.
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