The meeting of the party's National Executive, to be held in Bangalore on January 2 and 3, will see the Vajpayee regime come under a microscope since one of its aims is to identify the shortcomings of the 10-month-old Central Government.

Steps for better coordination between the government and the party are also high on the agenda, particularly after the embarrassment over the Insurance and Patents Bills during the Parliament session.

Being held in the backdrop of the BJP's debacle in the November Assembly elections -- for which many hold the poor performance of the Centre partially responsible -- leaders are hoping that some soul-searching will yield answers on what the party should do to set right the reverses it suffered in Delhi,Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. A detailed analysis of the reasons for the setbacks in these states will form the basis for the party's strategy.

The government's somersault on its ``swadeshi'' economic policy -- as evident from the Insurance and Patents Bills -- has left the BJP's cadres confused and disenchanted. Party general secretary M Venkaiah Naidu said today that programmes would be chalked out to explain to party workers the ``situation and circumstances'' under which the government was functioning.

Swadeshi, said Naidu, was a ``broad philosophy'' but it was necessary to be realistic since one was living in an era of globalisation. He said that political parties must readjust themselves to new realities and that broad consensus on vital economic issues was called for. Rather than adopt the United States or Soviet models, it was necessary for countries to have their own economic models. The South-East Asian experience had shown this and swadeshi was an appropriate model for India, he said.

Inreply to a question, he said there was no proposal to follow the Congress in giving 33 per cent reservation to women in party posts. But, he said, the BJP was the first party to have reservation for women, scheduled castes and tribes in the organisation.