'The participation of the youth in both organisational and legislative activities is also essential. The party units at all levels will have to pay extra attention to identify, encourage and promote the youth.'

Asked about RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's advice ahead of the meet about the need for younger leadership in the party, Rajnath Singh only said: 'We have given due representation to the youth.'

The BJP chief said the party was committed to its ideology of 'cultural nationalism and integral humanism. It is both comprehensive and inclusive, where there is no scope for discrimination between individuals'.

'We realised that this ideology needs to be articulated in a simple and easy way to the people,' Rajnath Singh maintained.

The party tried to explain that though its performance in the elections was disappointing, the verdict had shown the 'people wished a bi-polar polity' and the BJP was the other pole.

The BJP chief denied there was any internal document of the party analysing threadbare the poll outcome. He said: 'No report, no draft was prepared in this regard. Only suggestions from various states were noted down by Ram Lal (the party's organising secretary). The parliamentary election reports from various states were discussed.'