Tuesday, July 19 2005 20:36 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: Stung by the Congress dig on its problems with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today (July 19, 2005) hit back saying the ruling party would do well to manage its 'internal contradictions' instead of targeting the Opposition and vowed 'difficult days' for the ruling coalition in the coming Parliament session.

"Let them take care of their internal contradictions first. United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is a fragile Ulta-Pulta Alliance. The Left is vetoing, Lalu is blackmailing, Paswan is ducking, Telangana Rastra Samithi(TRS) is threatening, Mulayam is challenging, Mayawati is abusing, (NCP) Nationalist Congress Party is politicking and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) is thundering," party spokesman Prakash Javadekar told reporters in New Delhi.

Asserting that the party would play an effective role in the coming Monsoon session of Parliament, he said, "They (UPA) will have to run for cover."

Both Congress spokesman Anand Sharma and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad had yesterday (July 19, 2005) made tongue-in-cheek remarks against BJP on its ties with the RSS.

Referring to a recent book written by former Bihar Chief Minister Satyendra Narain Sinha, Javadekar said, "It fully exposed the ugly communal face of the Congress party".

Alleging that Sinha had blamed former Chief Minister Bhagwat Jha Azad and senior Congress leader Shivchandra Jha for the 1989 Bhagalpur riots, he demanded a fresh investigation into the communal incidents.

Blaming the Congress for the riots in the country over the past five decades, he demanded that the Government table in the Parliament the report of the Nanavati Commission, which probed the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and Bihar Minority Commission report on the Bhagalpur riots.