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Inside story of how I-T raids led to Gadkari exiting from race for BJP chief

New Delhi, Jan 23: Everything was going hunky-dory for BJP president Nitin Gadkari till Tuesday morning, with the RSS standing firmly behind him, when news came about the Income-Tax survey of investor companies of Mumbai



Sushma Swaraj then got in touch with the other three - Arun Jaitley, Venkaiah Naidu and Ananth Kumar to seek their consent. It was left to Ananth Kumar to get in touch with other senior party leaders.

At around 6 pm on Tuesday, Advani and Gadkari were to appear jointly at a pre-fixed function in Thane. By that time, the RSS leadership had made up its mind about the exit of Gadkari.