Since then the full report of the Special investigative team has become available, and it leaves no one in any doubt of the Sangh affiliations of the killers. The reports have conclusively repudiated official insinuations, repeated often by Central ministers, of forcible conversions in Orissa or anywhere else. But while it fails to arrest Dara Singh, the official machinery is working overtime to issue notices to Christian organisations in Orissa telling them to obey the nefarious Anti-conversion Act which violates the freedom of religion enshrined in the Constitution. Such notices have been received by Christian organisations and institutions in the tribal belt in recent weeks. Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat have become the laboratory of Hindutva, where the governments in power are challenging the concepts of secularism and fair play that form the backbone of the Constitution and the bedrock of Indian democracy and unity.
Efforts continue to be made to enforce a narrow sectarian agenda on the education system.
The government of Gujarat has transcended all limits of civil conduct, shedding the last vestige of its pretense at a secular neutrality by openly encouraging civil and police officers and employees to join the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and other Sangh Parivar organisations. Meanwhile, it enforces a harsh regime against the minorities, using official threats against educational and other institutions and personnel. The Christmas season in Gujarat saw a curfew like situation in the Dangs and harassment of the Christian community in many places. The government however allowed the controversial Shilanayas at Halmodi village in Surat and the holding of a Hindutva meeting in Ahwa on Christmas day, breaking its own rules in doing so. The Central government has reneged on its commitment to observe 2000 AD as the year of Christ.