New Delhi, Aug 30 - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday dismissed speculations of a leadership change while Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leaders, who met L.K. Advani, said the party would emerge stronger from the present turmoil.
Refuting media reports that the party would effect a change of guard at the behest of the RSS, BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar told reporters here: 'He (Advani) is leader of opposition (in the Lok Sabha), Rajnath Singh is our president; no one is resigning.'
Speculations have been rife that at the instance of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, the BJP would usher in a younger leadership with general secretary Arun Jaitley tipped to be the party president in place of Rajnath Singh and Sushma Swaraj to replace Advani as the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha.
The RSS, the ideological parent of the BJP, reiterated that the party would take its own decisions and hoped that its leadership would stand united, putting an end to infighting.
'The BJP has a mass base. And with such a party, problems are bound to occur... but the party will emerge stronger from the crisis,' senior RSS leader Madandas Devi told reporters here.
'The party will decide its own course of action,' he said, after he, Bhagwat and Suresh Soni held a breakfast meeting with BJP veteran Advani Sunday.