New Delhi, June 28: The RSS is getting ready to set the BJP a “clear ideological direction” with a take-it-or-leave-it warning.

The Sangh conclave beginning in Surat this week, which will be attended by the organisation’s top brass and pranth pracharaks (state whole-timers), will discuss the crisis in the BJP and formulate a stand.

“The base-line of the talks will be that Mohammed Ali Jinnah and Partition are not subjects that can be debated and Jinnah cannot be described as secular,” a Sangh source said.

Such a stand would be a rebuff to BJP president L.K. Advani, who has said he is open to a debate on these issues because he believes there were two sides to Jinnah, one secular and the other communal.

Sources said while the Sangh cannot decide who will head the BJP, the meeting will beam a “clear ideological direction” to the BJP.

“The BJP will have to decide if it wants to sail with us along our ideological direction or steer a different course,” a senior Sangh functionary said. “It is not a question of individuals but of the larger ideological direction in which the parivar should move.”

The Sangh hopes the conclave would “clear” the “misconceptions” clouding the minds of the parivar cadres ever since Advani made his controversial comments in Pakistan.

“The BJP worker is thoroughly confused today on basic issues like whether the party’s ties with the Sangh remain or not, whether the BJP is going to be reformed into a so-called secular Congress clone or whatever,” a BJP source said.

Several senior BJP leaders ? including M. Venkaiah Naidu, Rajnath Singh and Sanjay Joshi ? called on Sangh joint general secretary Suresh Soni last evening. Joshi, who is general secretary (organisation) and a Sangh pracharak, will represent the BJP in Surat.

A BJP leader said: “If at all there is a direction, it will be a reaffirmation of the ideological path we have always pursued. But the need for reaffirmation has arisen because the BJP direly needs a mid-course correction....”