The BJP was also told it would get the Sangh Parivar's support only if it shared the RSS outlook on key issues. Representatives of the BJP, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Sangh (ABVP), Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Swadeshi Jagaran Manch (SJM) and other constituents of the RSS attended the chintan baithak (introspection meet).

RSS joint general secretary K S Sudershan told reporters that the organisation would support any party that was willing to carry out the Sangh Parivar's agenda of swadeshi and cultural nationalism.

Briefing reporters on the five-day meet of the Akhil Bharatiya Karyakari Mandal (ABKM), the decision making body of the Sangh Parivar, hereon Monday, the senior RSS functionary said his organisation had welcomed some of the Vajpayee Government's recent decisions, like the nuclear tests, the Cauvery award and increased allocation for rural development.

He, however, said the RSS and other Parivar organisations did not approve of some of the Vajpayee Government's decisions in vital economic areas.

He said further that a resolution moved by the SJM and adopted by the meeting expressed strong views against the Vajpayee Government's decisions to open the Insurance sector to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The resolution also opposed the Centre's decision to allow 100 per cent investment in cigarette manufacture and a ban on the sale of common salt.

``It is well-known that the RSS has always been in favour of swadeshi. Therefore, the ABKM regards as improper the Central Government's decision to open the Insurance sector for direct foreign investment. It is beyond the comprehension of the ABKM as to why 100 per cent FDI is allowedin the production of cigarettes which is likely to throw lakhs of labourers engaged in the beedi industry out of their livelihood and why iodized salt is being made compulsory which will make the common man pay more than four times the price of common salt'', the resolution said.

The resolution felt that the Vajpayee Government, overwhelmed by constraints of immediacy, was ignoring the long-term implications of such policies. ``We are witnessing how some Asian countries, which allowed unrestricted foreign capital, have had their economic structure shattered and are, consequently, entrapped in continuous economic crises. Their experience should really be a lesson for us'', it said.

If the Government reconsidered its decisions, ``this would mean that the Government intends to honour the swadeshi mandate that it has received from the people of Bharat'', the resolution added.

He asserted that the move to introduce the controversial Insurance Regularity Authority (IRA) Bill was taken after apressure from international agency, without naming the World Bank.

Political observers here believe that the Sangh Parivar has virtually warned the BJP to `behave' or lose its active support.

They say the five-day conference was aimed at putting pressure on the BJP and ensuring that the party did not move away from the saffron agenda.

The meeting also favoured the idea of various frontal organisations of RSS to open dialogue with Muslims and Christians and clear misunderstandings on the RSS and its outlook.

Sudershan alleged that vested interests were out to malign the RSS and its sister organisations by accusing the Sangh Parivar of engineering attacks on Christians.

Prominent representatives of the RSS frontal organisations who attended the meeting include Kushabhau Thakre, K L Sharma, Govindacharya, Venkaih Naidu, Narendra Modi, Sumitra Mahajan (all BJP), Giriraj Kishore (VHP), Jaibhan Singh Pabaiyya (Bajrang Dal) and Bal Apte (ABVP).