KOLKATA: The BJP government was seeking to impose uniformity on India’s diversity and thrusting its ideological project of transforming the country’s secular democratic fabric into a rabidly intolerant Hindu state, said CPM general secretary and MP Sitaram Yechury Communal polarization has split the country and it could soon turn into an insurmountable crisis, he said.Delivering the first Hashim Abdul Halim memorial lecture in Kolkata on Wednesday, Yechury said the central government was on its way to replacing Parliamentary form of governance with a Presidential system for it would help them further its agenda. The basic tenets of the Constitution were now threatened and it was time to ‘resist’ the BJP’s sinister moves, he felt.“The present central government viciously combines the pursuit of sharpening communal polarization to advance the RSS/BJP combine’s agenda of transforming India into a Hindu rashtra. This government has also turned itself into a junior ally of US imperialism, moving towards a more unitary system to help the latter maximize profits. Likewise, the BJP’s agenda cane be hastened under a unitary state more efficiently and quickly. Hence, the struggle to safeguard India’s relations could not be separated from the struggles of imperialist neo-liberalism and communalism,” he observed.India’s foundations could only be strengthened through a healthy centre-state relation based on federal principles, Yechury said. “Over the years, there has been a concerted effort to demolish the bodies and the systems that created and established rights and powers for the states. They have now been completely undermined and abolished which goes against our Constitution. The GST is a good example. It takes away the state’s rights to impose sales tax which means they have now been reduced to the status of a beggar. Every state must now knock on the Centre’s doors with a begging bowl to seek their legitimate share of finances,” he said.