BJP is thinking party which analyses its position even when it wins: Javedakar

Against the backdrop of the Bharatiya Janata Party's defeat in three states, senior leader and Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said Thursday the BJP is a "thinking party" which analyses its position even when it wins, and introspection is a continuous process which it is doing.

Addressing the Lokmat National Conclave here, he said the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) will, in long run, "regret" ending ties with the BJP and the Congress would have fared better in Telangana had it not joined hands with Chandrababu Naidu.

"The BJP's biggest quality is that we are a thinking party even when we win. Winning and losing is a reality and introspection is a continuous process which we are doing," Javadekar said.

"What people think when they vote cannot be known. In Madhya Pradesh we got 30,000 more votes and in Rajasthan we got 1.5 lakh less votes but reality remains that we lost," he said.

It is also a reality that the BJP is still the ruling party in 16 states, compared to 2014 when the party had governments in just six states, Javadekar said.

Taking a dig at the Congress, he said, "While the Congress is a family's party, the BJP is a party which is like a big family."