Have to take two steps back for a big leap: Rajnath on bypoll debacle

Bhopal: With the BJP facing reverses in bypolls to Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said one has to take two steps backward before a big leap.

Asked about the BJP's performance in the by-elections to 11 Assembly and four Lok Sabha seats in various states ahead of next year's general polls, Singh, in a lighter vein, said, "For a massive leap, one always has to go two steps backwards."

"We are going to take a massive leap," the senior BJP leader said.

The former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh was addressing a press conference here to highlight the NDA government's achievements in the last four years.