India, Aug. 9 -- New Delhi

The BJP leadership has been internally assessing recent political developments and the lessons emerging from them, with a senior party leader saying the government is conscious of both the areas where it could have acted differently and the need to recalibrate its political approach ahead of the 2029 Lok Sabha elections.

Speaking off the record, the senior BJP leader acknowledged that, in hindsight, the controversy involving exam paper leak could have been handled differently and that resignation of former education minister Dharmendra Pradhan could perhaps have been sought earlier.

However, the leader said the initial decision was guided by the consideration that the functioning of a democratically elected g...