"Any action against Khurana, if needed, will be taken at an appropriate time," the party vice-president, Jana Krishnamoorti told The Indian Express on Sunday.

Khurana, on his part, seems to be in a hurry to leave the Bharatiya Janata Party. Though he keeps on reaffirming his faith in the party and the RSS, his ascorbic attacks at top Sangh Parivar leaders is unlikely to leave much space for any maneuvers for party high command.

A senior BJP office bearer today referred to Khurana's diatribe by saying, "He has probably lost control over himself. It is now up to the party top brass to decidewhether to let him remain in the party or not." While Krishnamoorthi feels, there is no problem in keeping Khurana in the party so long as he observes the party decorum and discipline, BJP chief Kushbhau Thakre refused to comment.

Khurana, however, refuses to believe that he has breached party discipline. "Charges of leaking my January 24 resignation letter to the media are not true because I told the press only about my intention to "atone" for attacks on Christians and not about the resignation. So where is the question of indiscipline," he asks.

He claims to have shot off the second letter after he received no reply to the first one written separately to the Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Thakre.

Asserting that he was not afraid of anyone, Khurana claims that this was the type of aggressive politics he has been practicing all along.