Another party spokesman, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, called them 'completely unacceptable' and said the party would take cognizance of what Shourie had spoken.

'He is sermonizing, he is angry,' Rudy added.

Shourie, however, found immediate support from Sudheendra Kulkarni, former advisor to BJP stalwart L.K. Advani who quit the party Sunday.

Kulkarni has also spoken in support of Jaswant Singh, a Lok Sabha MP and a former foreign and finance minister who was sacked from the party last week over a book authored by him in which he praised Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.