The re-entry of the 71-year-old former Delhi Chief Minister assumes significance as it comes ahead of the Assembly elections to be held by November.

BJP president Rajnath Singh re-inducted Khurana after days of secret parleys and is seen as a move to re-energise the party in Delhi as he has considerable following in the Punjabi community of the capital.

“He (Khurana) has written a letter withdrawing his comments against the party and expressing regret over his remarks,” a party leader said.

The party, however, has made no commitment on giving any post to the former Delhi BJP strongman and discussions in this regard are expected in the next few days.

Khurana refused to give any reaction immediately, saying he would speak on it later.

Khurana, who was also former Governor of Rajasthan, had severely criticised Advani in April 2006 over the Kandahar hijack episode and asserted that he could not work with him.

He had taken objection to Advani’s remarks that the former Deputy Prime Minister had differed with the decision to release terrorists during the hijack crisis.

Khurana had remarked that Advani’s comments were aimed at showing himself as a 'hero' and former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee as 'zero'.