Shimla, Aug 21 - Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani Friday said coalition politics was a necessity to end the 'hegemony of the Congress' in the country's political system.

'Coalition politics is necessary to end Congress hegemony. It is the necessity in India's political system,' senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj cited Advani as saying in his address to the party's three-day introspection meet that ended here.

'Even in the chintan baithak (introspection session), the pros and cons of coalition politics were discussed in detail,' she told reporters during a press briefing.

In his address, Advani said coalition politics was not a recent phenomenon and even the founder of Jana Sangh, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, had formed a coalition in the first Lok Sabha.