Bangalore: The RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh) today asked the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government to "sustain and carry forward" the initiative taken by the NDA (National Democratic Alliance) dispensation to solve the Ayodhya issue through mutual dialogue.

"The judiciary rider is okay. It is not a major obstacle. But the good initiative taken by the previous Government and the progress made on the front of mutual dialogue .. we hope it will be sustained and carried forward," RSS spokesman Ram Madhav told reporters in Bangalore.

The Common Minimum Programme of UPA had harped on the "judicial route" and also said it was ready to find a solution through dialogue if it had the sanction of courts, he noted.

The RSS believed that the best solution to the Ayodhya issue could be found through a dialogue, Madhav said.

Asked if the RSS would support the VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad) if it gave a fresh impetus to the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, he said, "What their plans are, we do not know".

Asked if the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) poll debacle could be attributed to the dilution of "hard Hindutva", Madhav said no "singular issue" could be held responsible for the outcome. "There are several reasons. We still hold the view that it (poll outcome) is a nightmare for any analyst to understand."

Taking a swipe at the Communists, he said they had now "completely identified" with the Congress, which "has never happened in the last 50 years".

On many occasions in the past, they had refused to toe the line of the Congress but now they had declared that they were willing to identify with the Congress, he said.

"The Communists are only maintaining a symbolic distance from the Congress". Even the "Left alternative is lost". The NDA formation, he said, had emerged as an alternative ideology to the one represented by the Congress. "The NDA ideological grouping has come to stay."

Answering a question, Madhav said the RSS hoped that the UPA Government would not resort to "vengeful and vindictive actions" and would conduct itself with maturity and adopt the consensual approach as Atal Bihari Vajpayee did.