New Delhi, Sep 1 - A combative Jaswant Singh Tuesday said he would not quit as chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, a day after the expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader was told by his former party to quit the parliamentary post.

Asked by reporters if he would oblige the BJP by quitting the PAC, Jaswant Singh said he would not.

'The decision (to ask him to quit the PAC) is of the (Lok Sabha) speaker, and not of a political party,' he said.

The PAC scrutinises government spending. The Darjeeling MP had been reportedly asked by the BJP Monday to quit the post since he had been expelled from the party.

He also said he would not rejoin the BJP or any other party like the Samajwadi Party, which has been sending him feelers ever since his ouster from the BJP last month.