New Delhi: Admitting that minorities had less representation in BJP, its president M Venkaiah Naidu on July 21 said the party would reach out to them and asserted the party needed to go to uncovered parts of the country to ensure majority in the next general polls.

"BJP today is the largest political party in the country having maximum number of MPs from SC, ST, women and those from rural areas. But representation of minorities in the party is less," Naidu said addressing a function to felicitate the newly- appointed Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha president G Kishan Reddy.

"We are weak in the area of representation of minorities," he said adding the party was giving a "serious thought" to this aspect.

"We will reach out to the minorities to clear the misunderstanding and remove the wrong perception about BJP infused in them by the Congress," he said.

Naidu said while BJP "will not give up its programmes" it would "not thrust its agenda on the allies" whom the party wanted "to take along even if it attained majority on its own".

Accusing Congress of leaving a legacy of problems, including poverty, corruption and unemployment, because of its "mis-governance", Naidu said, "some wrong things are entering BJP also against which precautions need to be taken to demonstrate that it is a party with a difference".

PTI