Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Deputy Prime Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani and other top Bharatiya Janata Party leaders, including party President M Venkaiah Naidu, will analyse the party's defeat in the Himachal Pradesh assembly election and discuss the future course of action.

The Congress won 40 of the 65 seats for which polling was held on February 26. The BJP, which had led a wafer-thin-majority coalition government, could win only 16 seats with a number of its stalwarts, including 15 ministers, Speaker Ghulab Chand Thakur and state unit president Jai Kishan Sharma, losing out.

Naidu said a meeting would soon be held to plan the future strategy for the party. He was speaking to newsmen after a meeting at his residence on Saturday attended by Advani, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Jharkhand Chief Minister Babulal Marandi and senior party leader Kailashpati Mishra.

The meeting will also discuss in detail the extent to which dissidence and rebels played a role in the defeat and measures to strengthen the organisation in the state, Naidu said.

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