Mumbai: In a clear disregard to summons from the BJP central leadership, Gopinath Munde, who has resigned from all party posts, today said he will not be visiting Delhi and will instead be represented by two senior state BJP leaders.

In an apparent damage control exercise, the BJP leadership called Munde as also his detractor Nitin Gadkari to Delhi to sought out the differences in the state unit.

When asked if he is going to New Delhi to meet the party central leadership, Munde said he had conveyed his sentiments to party leaders in the state assembly, Eknath Khadse, and in the council, Pandurang Phundkar.

"I have full faith in their leadership and they will go on my behalf," he said, adding that he planned to attend the ongoing session in the Maharashtra legislative assembly.

Munde, who tendered his resignation yesterday, also said he was in touch with senior party leaders including party president Rajnath Singh since yesterday.

Denying that he was being isolated in the party, Munde said his grievances were about the party's style of functioning and not over the appointment of any particular person as the head of BJP's Mumbai unit.

"You are wrong if you interpret that I am being isolated. I have lakhs of followers and party workers behind me," Munde said.

"My anger is against the manner in which the party was functioning and not against the appointment of Madhu Chavan (as BJP's Mumbai chapter chief)," he said.

He denied that he was trying to build pressure on the party by tendering his resignation. "I have taken this decision after much thought," he said.

When contacted, Gadkari said he was scheduled to meet with party leaders in Delhi this evening.

Source : PTI