The BJP which was now content with a few Lok Sabha seats in southern and eastern states as part of the alliance would soon start jostling for space creating problems for the constituents of NDA, senior Congress leader Madhavrao Scindia warned.

Addressing a news conference here, Scindia said many of the electoral allies of the BJP are secular and vehemently opposed to the communal agenda of the ruling party. They should now introspect and redefine their political strategies as the Sangh Parivar is still unwilling to give up contentious divisive issues, he said.

The Congress leader felt that such opportunistic alliances where the BJP teamed up with parties whose ideologies were contrary toits own would not last long.

Scindia said the Congress has difficulty in implementing the ``electoral engineering'' that the BJP had deployed since the party, unlike the BJP, has presence all over the country.

He, however clarified that the Congress was not opposed to coalition politics and the Pachmarhi declaration was often misquoted to give an impression that the party believed in a single party rule at the Centre. Citing an instance, he said the Congress entered into a coalition with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Maharastra as the mandate was clearly in favour of secular parties.

However, Scindia evaded a direct reply whether the central leadership of the party favoured change of guard in Orissa saying at the moment its priority was to provide relief to the cyclone-affected people in the state.

Emphasising the need to declare the Orissa super cyclone as a national calamity, the Congress leader said the tenth finance commission has clearly provided for such an eventuality. ``We are nottalking in the air when we make this demand,'' he said. Out of Rs 650 crore released by the Centre for relief operations in the state only Rs 200 crores was grant and the rest had to be adjusted against plan advance or ways and means advanced. To top it all the state government has to pay an interest of nine per cent and the loan amount need to be repaid in the next four months, he said.

About the banner of revolt raised by dissident leader Subhas Yadav, Scindia said the issues raised by him related to the Centre especially regarding excessive import of wheat and sugar which has damaged the interest of farmers.