Agra, Oct. 15 :    Agra, Oct. 15:  Crossing a faint Lakshmanrekha that began taking shape after A.B. Vajpayee's ascendancy, the RSS has linked Christian missionaries to 'military bases' in 'strategic areas' and asked Christians as well as Muslims to join the cultural mainstream by accepting their Hindu ancestry. Sangh chief K.S. Sudarshan alleged that Christianity, as it was practised today, had 'more to do with politics and less with religion'. 'Church politics is detrimental to the country,' the RSS sarsanghchalak told a press conference at the end of the three-day RSS mahashivir (grand camp) at Shastripuram on the outskirts of Agra. He said Muslims had the 'blood of Rama and Krishna in their veins'. 'Indian Muslims should realise that their ancestors did not come from a foreign land. So why don't they work for the Indianisation of Islam and give a new shape to their religion?' he asked. Sudarshan also criticised the western model of economic development and the hype about information technology and suggested the adoption of a rural-oriented Gandhian model. 'Information technology will not fill your stomach,' he said. Attacking the Church, Sudarshan said: 'The Church was always part of the western army. The Council of Churches brought out a document that said when Burma became independent, the Karens, who were Christians, revolted against the government. Likewise, they said, when India attained Independence, the Nagas revolted and alienated themselves from the mainstream.' 'The Church has a special interest in the Northeast because it is a sensitive, border area and they wanted a base in strategic areas to establish military bases. All this is politics in the name of religion,' the RSS chief added. Sudarshan, who had recently floated his concept of an Indian church and demanded that all 'foreign' churches in India be wound up, appealed to Christians in India to set up an indigenous church if they disapproved of the Church's 'anti-national' activities. In his valedictory speech, the RSS chief invoked the names of both Mahatma Gandhi and Babasaheb Ambedkar to buttress his anti-Church tirade. Sudarshan pointed out that Gandhi had said if foreign missionaries proselytised in the name of offering education and healthcare, they should not stay on. Ambedkar, he claimed, had also propagated the idea of a swadeshi church. Holding forth on the theme of 'cultural nationalism', Sudarshan for the first time placed the concept categorically within the framework of RSS theory and said culture was linked inextricably to territorial loyalty. 'The idea of nationhood is linked to the geographical territory a person inhabits. The earth is my mother and I am her son. This is what we mean by nationalism - be loyal to the territory you inhabit and share the joys and sorrows of your fellow inhabitants,' stressed Sudarshan. Sudarshan's sermon was in sharp contrast with the tone of Bangaru Laxman's appeal to Muslims to join the BJP when he took over as BJP president. Calling on Christians and Muslims to integrate into the 'Indian mainstream', the RSS chief pointed out that Pakistan's exiled Mohajir leader Altaf Hussain had admitted that Partition was a mistake. 'Altaf Hussain said there is no justice for Mohajirs in Pakistan and that he would appeal to Indian Muslims to demolish the concept of Pakistan.' The RSS chief lamented that whenever attempts were made to 'correct' the Aryan-Dravidian myth, the exercise was dubbed as 'saffronisation of culture and history' by 'Euro-Indians'. He claimed recent studies had shown that there are only minor genetic differences between the people living in the north and the south. On the Babri Masjid demolition, Sudarshan alleged that a member of Narasimha Rao's kitchen cabinet was involved along with the Shiv Sena and the Bajrang Dal. Coming down heavily on the western model of development, Sudarshan suggested the adoption of a Gandhian model, which was rural-oriented, less capital-intensive, environment-friendly and employment-generating.