The country has witnessed the open moves to allow RSS penetration into the government machinery; push forward the Hindutva agenda through a constitutional review and growing intolerance and attacks on those who do not share the narrow sectarian vision of the RSS in the field of culture, education and society in general.

The Gujarat government's order lifting the prohibition on government employees joining the RSS is the first blatant move to legitimise the communalisation of the administration. The Union home ministry under L.K. Advani permitted this step. It is the determined resistance put up by the entire secular opposition in parliament and the widespread public protests which finally forced the Gujarat government to withdraw this circular. The BJP had to retrace its steps after many NDA partners also publicly protested and disassociated from the BJP's defence of the RSS.

Ignoring the widespread opposition to review the Constitution, the government announced the setting up of a Commission for the purpose. The aim of the BJP is to legitimise change of the Constitution on anti-secular lines and to eventually impose a Presidential form of government. The most objectionable part is that parliament has been bypassed totally in this exercise. Parliament is the only body authorised by the Constitution to go into such matters. The recent statement of the new RSS Chief that the Constitution should be scrapped and a new one adopted is a clear warning of the BJP's real aims. All those who have been taken in by the talk of reviewing the Constitution after fifty years should realise the deep game behind such a move.

The Central Committee of the CPI(M) decided that since it is basically opposed to the idea of such a Commission to review the Constitution, the Party will not cooperate with the work of the Commission in any manner.

The Central Committee strongly condemned the tactics adopted by the RSS-BJP combine's efforts to impose intellectual censorship and cultural policing utilising its control over the administration both at the Centre and in the states where it is ruling. The Indian Council of Historical Research in an unprecedented step recalled two books written for the "Towards Freedom" project after it had gone to the press. This blatant interference in an academic project is part of the overall design to get institutions of higher education and research to conform to the dictates of the Hindutva brigade.

The UP state government prevented the shooting of a film which was objected to by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and other RSS outfits even though the central government cleared the film. Increasingly the RSS and its outfits are interfering in the lives of ordinary citizens and resorting to violence to impose their sectarian code of conduct.