``I would urge all our allies not to air their perceived grievances or differences in perception through media, but to make the coordination committee an effective mechanism,'' party president Kushabhau Thakre said in his opening remarks at the three-day national executive meeting which began here today.

Setting the tone for discussion at the meeting, which will adopt political and economic resolutions, Thakre without naming AIADMK, drew attention to the ``justified concern over the apparent lack of spirit of accommodation among some of our allies''.

Recalling that the BJP and its allies had agreed to work together on the basis of the national agenda for governance, Thakre said, ``In a sense, this government is as much ours as that of our allies -- each one is a partner in governance and equally responsible for this government's failures as also its successes. In short, we have to work together.''

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Home Minister L K Advani and several cabinet ministers and chief ministers were among the 140 members present at the meeting.

Thakre urged every ally ``to forsake minor issues for the larger goal''. The BJP had set aside major issues on which they had campaigned for the elections to avoid friction, he said.

``Let all of us not lose sight of the need for mutual understanding and adjustment. The nation's and not an individual's interest should be our guiding spirit,'' he said.

On the Ayodhya issue, Thakre attacked the Congress and ``other pseudo-secular parties'', saying they were desperately seeking to raise the ghost of communalism and resurrect the deplorable politics of vote banks and minorityism at a time when the BJP had left the rancours of the past behind.

Taking exception to the raising of a controversy over the preparation for temple construction at Ayodhya, Thakre said those who criticised it ignored the fact that artisans had been at work in distant places for years now without violating the law of the land.

Describing the Opposition campaign on the Srikrishna commission report as ``misguided and highly dangerous,'' Thakre said its contents were not the conclusions of an unbiased judicial inquiry.

It made little sense to blame the BJP-Shiv Sena government in Maharashtra for the violence and bomb blasts in 1993, he said, blaming the Congress for the incidents as it was then in power both at the Centre and in the State.

``We need to educate the people and mobilise public opinion against the evil designs of these political opportunists. The nation cannot afford another spell of political uncertainty and crisis of leadership. To be complacent now could prove dear later -- both for us as well as the nation,'' the BJP president said.

On the government's performance, Thakre said that five months was too short a period in the life of a government that should last at least five years. ``I would urge our karyakartas (workers) not to be impatient -- they must understand that this is not a BJP government but a BJP-led government.''