New Delhi:
A day after he openly voiced his disappointment with the party leadership, BJP's senior leader in Maharashtra, Gopinath Munde, has come to Delhi today, to meet top leaders of the party.
Munde, yesterday at a press conference in Mumbai, said he is hurt and upset over various decisions of the party, one of which is BJP's choice for the party head in Pune.
The BJP meeting has been postponed but the party has said that Munde is a senior leader and they will value him.
"Party leaders are meeting and any differences that may prevail will be settled. The party will take care of his concerns. All general and specific issues will be discussed and addresses," BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said.
Ever since Munde supporter Yogesh Gogawale was sidelined for the post of Pune BJP president and Gadkari loyalist Vikas Mathkari was named instead, there has been speculation that the OBC leader may be on the verge of leaving the party which he, with late brother-in-law Pramod Mahajan, helped grow in Maharashtra.
"Opposition leader in the Assembly Eknath Khadse met me yesterday and invited me for tomorrow's BJP meeting in Delhi. I have accepted the invitation. Senior leader Venkaiah Naidu also called me and directed me to attend the meeting," Munde had said on Friday.
"I will decide my future political course after tomorrow's meeting. I will seek some time to decide on what they (BJP leaders) have to say. Whatever I have to say, I will say in the party platform," he said.
Asked if the option of going to another party was open, Munde had said, "what options I have or I don't have, that I will say only after speaking with party leadership."
On his recent meetings with leaders of Congress, Sena and NCP, Munde said he was in political life for the last three decades so it is natural that he had contacts across political parties. "Those who met me tried to gauge my pains," he said.
(With PTI inputs)