Senior leader L K Advani, BJP president Nitin Gadkari and Arun Jaitley spoke to Raje over phone to defuse the crisis, a day after she threatened to quit the party.
56 MLAs out of 79 that BJP has in the 200-member Assembly offered to resign in support of Raje, a close aide of the Leader of Opposition in the Assembly, said. He said more legislators will come in support of Raje.
At a meeting of the core committee, Raje had threatened to leave the BJP objecting to senior leader Gulabchand Kataria's proposed "Lok Jagran Yatra" in the state apparently to project himself as the party's chief ministerial face. Kataria later decided to call off his yatra.
Supporters of Raje also demanded that the party declare her as the chief ministerial candidate for the Assembly polls due next year.
In Delhi, BJP's chief spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad tried to play down the crisis, saying Raje is a senior leader of the party in the state and things will be resolved internally.
"She (Raje) has already announced that it is an internal matter of the party which is being resolved internally," he said.
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There was speculation that she may go to Delhi for talks with the party leadership. Prasad, however, said a categorical "no" to a question on whether Raje was summoned to Delhi.
On the crisis in the state unit, he admitted, "There can be a difference in perception" among leaders which is being sorted out.(MORE)