As Advani met Gadkari in Pune, senior RSS leader Bhaiyyaji Joshi communicated to Gadkari that he should now quit the race. Gdkari was also told that senior RSS and BJP leaders are now almost unanimous about Rajnath Singh.
A meeting took place at Arun Jaitley's residence at around 9 pm in Delhi attended by the Big Four plus Ram Lal, Muralidhar Rao and Rajnath Singh.
At the meeting, Venkaiah Naidu's name was also floated by Jaitley, but the other leaders backed Rajnath Singh. It was finally decided that the party parliamentary board would meet on Wednesday morning to approve Rajnath Singh's name as president.
