Senior BJP leader L K Advani will not step down from the post of Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, his party colleague Sushma Swaraj said on Wednesday and dubbed reports of mounting pressure on him to quit his post as a media creation.

"Advaniji would not step down from the post of Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha and there were no talks in the party in this regard," Swaraj told reporters in Ratlam.

"It was a media creation," she said, after being asked when she will be elevated as Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha and if there was pressure on Advani to quit his post.

On the political crisis in her party in Karnataka, the Deputy Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha said that it had withered as BJP has an inner mechanism to sort out such issues.

To a query, Swaraj said the BJP had taken the right decision at the right time to expel Jaswant Singh from the party, as he had held Sardar Patel responsible for the partition.

"Every BJP worker holds Sardar Patel in high esteem for his contribution to the unification of India," she said.

Describing the recent unruly behaviour of Maharashtra Navniram Sena (MNS) in the state Assembly as "shameful and unfortunate", she said their act of insulting the national language was unpardonable.