Today in the Indian Parliament, the Justice Liberhan commission’s report on the Ayodhya carnage of December 1992 was tabled and debated upon by the Members of Lok Sabha. The Ayodhya issue has been one of the most heated events in Indian history which was also unfortunate.
The Liberhan commission has at last published a report of findings, which to every common man in India was a known thing for these many years. Now its upto the elected members to debate it and then for the elected government now in power to act on it. I sat watching the debate on TV and it was quite evident from the speakers that they were waiting for such a long time to be able to speak on this topic
Its but obvious that any accused would only try to shout out accusations against him, in self defense. The case as i observed on TV was no different. Non BJP speakers were constantly hassled by the BJP members and they were bringing up Point of Order as well against Jagadambika Pal a Cong MP, since his name featured on the report. Though this Point of Order was invalid, they kept on harping on until it was told by Rajnath Singh that the Jagadambika pal on the report was indeed a Karsevak and it wasn't the congress MP.
Rajnath Singh belted out his defense of the party and his tall leaders in chaste hindi. The man i needs an appreciation, that he stuck largely to faulting the technicalities of this report which most others didn't do. However, he spoke in no terms that would showcase a re-think on BJP’s part about this incident and what it has done to country thereafter. ‘ Ram mandir they, Ram madir hain aur Ram mandir rahega ‘ was what he affirmatively said as part of his speech. This is clearly what keeps BJP out of the people and they are yet to understand it i guess. We all know that Advani started this as a philosophy to shore-up the BJP’s prospects but what they didn’t, was to realize this claim when they were in power. That was clearly a double padded approach on their part.
The report was about ‘What circumstances lead to the demolition’ and that was getting debated by the members, however Rajnath went far too deep into stating that Babur demolished a temple there in AD 1528, to build a mosque there and additionally that since many decades this mosque has been dis-used. What if this mosque wasn't used would be a question that you may ask, but Rajnath babu feels that its a disused monument and Muslims should not bother about its demolition. What he probably doesn't understand is that with this act many a questions are being raised against his party men and also we as a nation have spend loads of time & money trying to quell this needless fire. It did also destroy faith on a secular India, that which has made our country far, far worthy than other countries in our neighborhood.
Justice Liberhan says in his report that for once this act doesn’t seem to be an instant reaction but something that has been in the planning. This is a fact that Rajnath and his co are conveniently trying to cover out. Kar Sevaks, - a word hitherto not known to the larger India – were mobilized and they bought bricks to built the temple. Leaders like Advani, MM Joshi pepped up the frenzy, who can forget the rath yaatra of Advani. All this was lost in the speech of Rajnath Singh, he instead blamed the police and the other law enforcement agencies of not having foreseen and pre-empted this attack. Even after all these years, Rajnath doesn't like to think that the forces were almost blocked out by these people.
Rajnath still holds LKA, ABV & MMJ in high esteem, well that’s good, for these trio did a lot to bring name albeit a negative name to BJP. Their communalist stance for sure got them a government at the centre. BUT why did they not get a temple constructed then…? who has the answer to this. Today this party is out to prove that Liberhan commission’s report is doctored… well why did they not get the commission bring out its findings when Vajpayee was the PM… ?
I don't think they still want to put the Ram Janmabhoomi - Babri Masjid incident behind them and look forward. The Triumvirate of Vajpayee, Advani and Joshi are soon fading, age getting the better of them, will this at least cause a change in its stance, not really i guess since BJP is closing in on being the pseudo face of RSS !
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