In a statement here, the CPI(M) state committee said the party would be always in the forefront to resist the Parivar's destructive actin the state, and reaffirmed its support to ``crush the move at any cost''.

``The statement of Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Kummanam Rajasekharan on the Maramon Convention is a blatant challenge to the secular forces in the state'', the committee said.

The state leadership warned the VHP of ``stern rebuff'' to its attempts to foment communalism in Kerala. The party also called upon other secular forces to fight communal forces.

It may be recalled that the Hindu Aikya Vedi, a forum of 40 Hindu organisations, had announced at its convention here on Sunday that it would launch an intensive anti-conversion campaign.