New Delhi, March 2 :     Brushing aside Opposition charges that the RSS was a 'communal and political organisation', home minister L.K. Advani today there was no question of the Centre urging the Gujarat government to withdraw its decision. A Gujarat government decision recently lifted the ban from state government employees joining RSS activities. An emphatic Advani told the Rajya Sabha - where a 'short-duration' discussion on the subjected had stretched to three days - that the Vajpayee government did not have 'constitutional powers' to direct the Gujarat government to withdraw the circular. 'It is the state government's sole discretion,' the home minister said. Advani saw method in the madness of the Opposition in both Houses. The daily business of stalling proceedings is a planned effort to 'destabilise' the Vajpayee government, he said. He warned the Opposition that their endeavour would not bear fruit. However, Advani's statement seemed to hint that not all allies shared the BJP stand on the RSS. As if to lend credence to Advani's indirect admission, Sharief-ud-din, MP from ally National Conference, joined an Opposition-sponsored walk-out. Advani said it was not the Centre but the Gujarat government which has taken the decision. 'The Centre was not consulted. If they had sought our advice, we would have informed them our views,' the home minister said. He said the Centre had left it to the Gujarat government to take note of the controversy and act accordingly. Advani sought to reassure National Democratic Alliance partners that such ideological issues which threaten to divide the alliance would not be allowed to come to the fore. The fragility of the alliance was evident as Advani spoke. The Telegu Desam Party and DMK members kept quiet through his speech, though unlike the NC, did not join the Congress-Left walk-out. The restive Congress benches wanted Advani to spell out how he proposed to end the impasse, when even midway through his speech the home minister had not specified whether the Centre would approach the Gujarat government. Leader of the Congress in the Upper House Manmohan Singh wanted the home minister to say categorically what steps the government proposed to take. Singh asked if the government would make the Gujarat administration withdraw the circular and whether a similar circular was being planned for Central employees. Advani argued that as suggested by the Congress and other Opposition parties, he had studied the provisions under Articles 256 and 257 of the Constitution and was compelled to think that none of these permitted an interpretation that the Gujarat government has done wrong. Advani said the controversy was a campaign against the RSS to achieve political ends. Yesterday, he had intervened in Kapil Sibal's speech and spoken on the 'active role' played by Sangh stalwarts Hedgewar and Golwalkar in the freedom movement.