As he arrived in New Delhi to meet the top BJP leadership, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa has said he has not been asked by anybody in the party to quit.

“Nobody has asked me to resign,” he told reporters in New Delhi on Monday evening when asked whether he would be quitting as the BJP leadership wanted him to go.

He said he would be meeting his party MPs from Karnataka and later the BJP leadership.

On the charges of irregularities in land allotment favouring his family members, Yeddyurappa said a judicial inquiry was already on in the matter.

Yeddyurappa, who arrived in New Delhi from Puttaparthi in Karnataka along with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by a special flight, had ignored the party summons on Sunday to be available at Delhi for consultations.

The Chief Minister has, however, kept the party guessing on his moves.

Yeddyurappa has reportedly told the party leadership that his removal might harm the first ever BJP government in the South, for whose formation he had played a key part.

Some senior leaders, speaking on the condition of anonymity, however, dismissed suggestions that he can bring down the government.

Yeddyurappa has earlier deputed a team of his loyalists, including Home Minister R Ashok, a prominent Vokkaliga leader, Higher Education Minister V S Acharya, a probable to replace the Chief Minister in the event of his exit, and some others to Delhi to persuade the party against change in leadership.

Earlier in the day, Acharya met Gadkari and said the party leadership had taken no final decision on Yeddyurappa’s fate.