June 10, 2005: Senior BJP leader L.K. Advani withdraws his resignation as party president after facing strong opposition for his comments on Mohammad Ali Jinnah during his visit to Pakistan. Photo: PTI
August 19, 2009: BJP expels senior leader Jaswant Singh for writing the book, "Jinnah: India-Partition Independence" in which he has expressed his views on Jinnah and partition. Photo: V.V. Krishnan
The expelled leader attacked Advani stating that it was Mr. Advani who stopped the then Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee from taking action against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi over the 2002 riots. File photo: Special Arrangement
In the past party leader Yashwant Sinha had also hit out at the leadership of Advani, Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj, and Arun Jaitley. Photo: Kamal Narang
More recently the decision of the party to remove Vasundhara Raje from the post of leader of the BJP’s legislature wing in Rajasthan has triggered strong protest among her supporters. However, she finally submitted her resignation as Leader of the Opposition. Photo: Shanker Chakravarty
Sudheendra Kulkarni, who was a close aide of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L K Advani, quit the party a few days ago saying, 'I want to have the freedom to express my views'. Photo: PTI
The crisis in the party deepened when Arun Shourie, senior leader and MP, hit out at party president Rajnath Singh, calling him “Alice in Blunderland” and described the party leadership as “Humpty Dumpty.” Photo: PTI
Shourie also complained that no action had been taken by the party president Rajnath Singh on a letter he had written to him confidentially. Photo: PTI
Shourie’s attack was a continuation of the loud complaints by senior leaders that some in the party had been “rewarded” for mismanagement of the party's 2009 election campaign. . Photo: PTI