New Delhi: The demolition of the Babri Masjid mosque in December 1992 was “meticulous planned” and it could have been prevented, said CPI MP Gurudas Dasgupta, beginning a debate in the Lok Sabha on the M S Liberhan commission’s report on the incident.
“I am ashamed to say that the demolition was a result of a meticulous planning,” said Dasgupta. Why the disaster could not be prevented? Why the criminals could not be held in jail?Why did the political system fail?”
Dasgupta claimed BJP leader L K Advani, who has been blamed in the Liberhan report for the mosque’s destruction, had said in a Parliament debate in 1992 that he didn’t want Babri Masjid demolished but wanted to shift the structure and build a Ram temple there.
The two-day debate in the Lok Sabha began on Monday just a day after nation observed the 17th anniversary of Babri Majid being demolished.
The Liberhan commission report has not recommended punitive action against anyone for the demolition of the Babri Masjid and calls for a new law to punish people using religion for political ends.
The commission indicts 68 people for the demolition of the Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992 in Ayodhya.
Kalyan Singh, who was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh during the mosque’s demolition, has come for the harshest criticism in the report. He is accused of posting bureaucrats and police officers who would stay silent during the mosque’s demolition in Ayodhya.
Senior BJP leaders Atal Behari Vajpayee, Lal Krishna Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi are called “pseudo-moderates”. The report holds them intellectually and ideologically responsible for the mosque’s destruction. The report says that they gave false assurances to court, people and the nation.
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