Vajpayee not happy with party's policy of repeating MLAs

New Delhi, May 11 (UNI) Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is understood to have expressed his unhappiness over his party's repeating all its sitting MLAs blindly in the UP elections, which has resulted in a major loss for the party due to local anti-incumbency factor.

The senior BJP leader is said to have expressed his views at the BJP Parliamentary Board meeting which met here this evening to review the UP election results, sources said.

His suggestions not to field all the candidates did not find favour of the party when it decided on its nominees.

Mr Vajpayee gave 'health reasons' for not being able to campaign for the party in his home state, but political observers accept this with a ''pinch of salt''.

Meanwhile, BJP President Rajnath Singh has openly conceded that there was something lacking in the strategy of the party. Senior party leaders like Dr Murli Manohar Joshi have also aired the same views saying that there should be strategy and management review of the party.

Former union minister Shatrughan Sinha was the first to demand the party to do some introspection in the light of UP election results.

Reacting to Mr Sinha's demand Dr Joshi said that BJP was a party run by a group of leaders and an individual cannot be blamed for results like this.

Former UP BJP president Vinay Katiyar's attack on the party's past alliance with the BSP was more direct when he said the people had preferred to vote the BSP directly instead of an indirect route to BJP.

Mr Sinha's argument that Mr Advani was ''under-utilised'' were taken as filmi rhetoric.

The section which opposed to the BJP's alliance with the Apna Dal feels that the party had 'over-estimated' the strength of Apna Dal whose president himself had lost from two places.

UNI