new delhi education ministers of nine nonndaruled states on monday charged the vajpayee government with trying to undermine the countrys unity and integrity by communalising the education system and demanded withdrawal of the national curriculum framework of school education the guiding document for setting textbook syllabus a resolution adopted at the end of the threeday national convention against communalisation of education here said the present government has converted almost every nationallevel education and academic body into an instrument for implementing the communal agenda of the sangh parivar this poses a serious threat to the unity and integrity of the country said speakers at the meeting which was also attended by four mps shabana azmi eduardo faleiro mani shanker aiyer and bharati ray the meeting characterised as devoid of legitimacy the national curriculum framework and demanded its immediate withdrawal and issuance of a new document only after a national consensus is evolved the meeting also asked the central government to initiate a process of consulting states in matters of national education policy by immediately convening the meeting of the state education ministers and constituting a central advisory board of education the meeting was attended by education ministers of west bengal bihar delhi karnataka rajasthan madhya pradesh nagaland pondicherry and chhattisgarh arjun singh congress sitaram yechury and brinda karat both cpim and a b bardhan cpi also attended the meeting the convention was of the view that introduction of new courses by the ugc in higher education in the name of indigenous knowledge was aimed at fostering revivalism and destroying the scientific character of our higher education there is a national consensus that the goals of democracy equality and secularism lay down the basic direction that all the education programmes must follow the resolution said the government has appointed persons as heads and as members of decisionmaking committees on the sole criterion of their affinity with the ideology of the sangh parivar the resolution said the convention expressed deep regret that the partners and allies of the bjpled government at the centre remained mute spectators to the policies and programmes which undermine the foundation of indias nationhood by destroying its secular character of education earlier speaking at the convention yechury said the government is attempting to rewrite the history of india to create a rabidly communal theocratic state