Mumbai: Claiming that it has "learnt a lot" from poll debacle, BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) today (June 24, 2004) unveiled its future strategy giving primacy to "ideology and idealism" and calling for mounting a powerful counter-offensive against Congress and the Communists who reject Hindutva.

Laying emphasis on commitment to party and "not individuals", the party's discussion paper on "Tasks Ahead: Immediate and Long Term" stressed the urgent need to promote and strengthen the culture of discipline and self-discipline at all levels.

On a self-correcting course after the defeat, the party talked about reshaping the organisation by combining the virtues of a mass party with a cadre network with twin commitments of "nationalism and development".

As an apparent part of its being proclaimed as "party with a difference", it underlined that the BJP was not an ordinary political party in pursuit of power for the sake of power alone and declared that "we should not be defensive or apologetic about projecting our distinctive ideological identity".

Signalling a return to the Hindutva-fold, it accused the Congress and the Communists of "perverting" the idea of secularism for their narrow political ends. "For them maligning our party and our larger movement as 'communal' has become a necessity to keep alive their nefarious strategy of anti-BJPism," the document said.