New Delhi, Aug 28 - The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Friday expressed disappointment over the infighting in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), but refused to draw up a road map for the party's revival unless it was asked to.

In a rare press conference that has been timed when the BJP is facing its most serious crisis, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said: 'Whatever is happening is not right, it should stop. Nobody finds it good,' Bhagwat said.

The Hindu nationalist RSS is the ideological fountainhead of the BJP.

Speaking in public for the first time since the trouble erupted in the BJP following the release of Jaswant Singh's book praising Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the RSS chief maintained that this did mean the end of the road for the party.

'To say they (BJP) are going towards an abyss is not correct, they got a jolt in the elections and they should get over it. We think that they will be able to do it.'

He steered clear of Jaswant Singh's book and only said: 'I have not read the book; I haven't got the time to read it, but I will read it and form an opinion.'

Asked about the role the Sangh would play in the BJP's revival, he said it was not necessary that 'every time the role (of RSS in BJP affairs) is visible.'

He also refused to draw up any road map or advice to the BJP.

'The Sangh (RSS) has its own task (of uniting the society). If the party needs some help and some advice, we will give it. But what has to be done and what not is the decision of the party,' Bhagwat asserted.