Learn From Both Victory, Defeat: PM's Message To Party Ahead of UP Polls

The big election will be in Uttar Pradesh -- politically the most crucial state which sends the maximum number of members to parliament and is said to hold the key to the government in Delhi.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has advised his party workers to take lessons both from victory and feat as the BJP prepares for the next round of elections, to be held in five states. The big election will be in Uttar Pradesh -- politically the most crucial state in the country, which sends the maximum number of members to parliament and is said to hold the key to the government in Delhi. "Whether it is defeat or victory, take a lesson from it and start preparing for the coming elections," PM Modi was quoted as saying by the party's general secretaries who attended a meeting last evening at the Prime Minister's official residence. The last round of election had proved a mixed bag for the BJP. While the party retained Assam and managed to win Puducherry, it missed out on what it perceived as the big prize -- Bengal -- where it was hoping to come to power with 200 seats. Mamata Banerjee's record victory in face of the BJP's mammoth, well-oiled election machinery and a battery of star campaigners, is seen to have shaken the party's grassroot workers -- a situation the BJP is keen to mend ahead of the next round of elections.