Senior BJP leader Ram Jethmalani today diasapproved his party's core group backing Nitin Gadkari. Talking to reporters in New Delhi,he said the party is losing moral ground in the fight against corruption.

Jethmalani, who spearheaded the public revolt against Gadkari, has alraedy demandad that Gadkari must resign in the wake of allegations of dubious transactions involving his company.

Reacting to party's appeal to all its leaders and workers not to air such views in public which hurt the image of the party, Jethmalani said, the gag order does not apply to him.