``These groups friendly to the BJP should decide on whether the present government must continue or not. They must know that if it goes, it is only the Congress that will come to power,' Hegde told a press conference here.``If the Bajrang Dal and VHP are keen to bring back the Congress, they have every right to do so. Only, let them say so. These so-called friendly parties must realise that the future of the country is involved and that this government must be allowed to continue,'' he said.

While at one point he blamed some `coalition partners' for `creating problems', Hegde made it clear that more than these parties, it was ``friendly organisation Bajrang Dal that were affecting the government's image''.

Hegde said he must complimentMadan Lal Khurana, who resigned from the Union Ministry yesterday, `for expressing his views' against the VHP and Bajrang Dal. However, he did not want to blame the `hardliners' in the government for Khurana's exit. He had resigned on his own and was not made to quit, he said.