New Delhi/ Lucknow, July 26 - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh Sunday said his party was analysing the poll debacle but asserted - without referring to senior leader Yashwant Sinha's media criticism - that this did not mean it should be made public.

'It's time to introspect what went wrong. We are analysing the factors behind the unsatisfactory performance of the party, but that does not mean we start making those factors public,' Singh told a party gathering in Lucknow.

In the national capital, party leaders were cagey about discussing Sinha's latest salvo in an interview to the news channel NDTV where he said the leadership was not serious about analysing the poll debacle.

'I don't want to react on this issue,' BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told IANS in reply to a question about Sinha's remarks, which he made earlier last month too.

Disregarding BJP chief Rajnath Singh's warning to members, at the party's national executive last month, to refrain from making public statements about the party, Sinha said in the interview that the BJP's defeat was explained within the party in a 'casual, light hearted manner'.

Party sources said the leadership was not in favour of any strict action against Sinha nor is it making any effort to win him over considering that he, according to them, did not wield much clout in the party and in public.

Similarly, former fellow minister Arun Shourie has criticised the BJP in his series of media articles on the country's political scenario.

'The party is just letting them be, for nothing could be done about them. At another level, Sinha does not have much influence within and outside.