PUNE: Recently, BJP lost election in the heartland states - Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chattisgarh. On this defeat BJP leader and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said the "leadership" should own up to defeat and failures.

 Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said that unlike success, nobody is willing to own up to failure. In an event organised by the Pune District Urban Cooperative Banks Association Limited in the Maharashtra city, Gadkari said that  "Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan, as when there is success, there will be a race to take credit but in case of failure, everybody will start pointing fingers at each other.

Union Road Transport and Highways Minister further said, Sometimes, banks achieve success and sometime they will have to face failure... The banks have to face both the situations In politics, when there is a failure, a committee is formed but in case of success, nobody comes and asks you,""Leadership should have the vrutti (tendency) to own up the defeat and failures. Loyalty of the leadership towards the organisation will not be proved till the time it owns up responsibility for defeat.

In Recent election The BJP ceded power to the Congress Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.