Interestingly, Modi, whose name was not taken in the editorial of Kamal Sandesh but could be the apparent target, met party patriarch Atal Bihari Vajpayee and another veteran L K Advani.
Advani had yesterday made a thinly-veiled attack on party president Nitin Gadkari, lamenting that BJP's campaign on corruption could have been dented by certain actions taken by Gadkari. This was seen as Advani's expression of resentment over Gadkari and Modi coming together at last week's national executive.
"Atalji, Advaniji, Dr Joshiji have been shining in the horizon of Indian politics for so many years only because they have always considered organisation to be supreme. They kept themselves within the fold of BJP even though their stature is very high but they never tried to grow taller than the party," the curiously worded editorial by Prabhat Jha, editor of Kamal Sandesh, said.
"Rising above the petty issues of 'self' and 'other' and issues of 'self-existence' everyone should come together and unite for the existence of the party," was another line in the editorial.
Party spokesperson Prakash Javadekar sought to dismiss media interpretations of the editorial as "not fair" and "unjustified". He asked the media not to "create a story out of nothing". (MORE)
