Babri Masjid demolition neither spontaneous nor unplanned: Liberhan

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Babri Masjid demolition neither spontaneous nor unplanned: Liberhan


Negating the theory handed out by Hindu groups that the Babri Masjid demolition was mob-driven, the Liberhan Commission has said it has been "established beyond doubt" that the events of Dec 6, 1992, in Ayodhya were "neither spontaneous nor unplanned".

The commission, whose report on the demolition was tabled Tuesday in parliament, also blamed the entire temple construction movement on the Sangh Parivar - Hindu rightwing groups.

A former high court judge, MS Liberhan in his report has called former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi as "pseudo-moderates" and condemned them for their role in the demolition.

"... it stands established beyond doubt that the events of the day were neither spontaneous nor unplanned nor an unforeseen overflowing of the people's emotion, nor the result of a foreign conspiracy as some overly imaginative people have tried to suggest," the 1,029-page report said.

The report said the "blame or the credit" for the entire Ram temple movement at Ayodhya must necessarily be attributed to the Sangh Parivar.

"The Parivar is a highly successful and corporatised model of a political party and as the Ayodhya campaign demonstrates, has developed a highly efficient organisational structure."

"While the structure or the methods of the Sangh Parivar for aggregating a substantial public base may neither be illegal nor strictly objectionable, the use of this gargantuan whole for the purpose of the Ayodhya campaign was clearly against the letter and spirit of Indian law and ethos."

The report said that the attempts by the "pseudo-moderate elements" within the Parivar were "predictably of little significance and were destined to fail, whether by design or otherwise".

On Vajpayee, Advani and Joshi, the report said: "These leaders cannot however be given the benefit of the doubt and exonerated of culpability.

"These leaders have violated the trust of the people and have allowed their actions to be dictated not by the voters but by a small group of individuals who have used them to implement agendas unsanctioned by the will of the common person.

"There can be no greater betrayal or crime in a democracy and the Commission has no hesitation in condemning these pseudo-moderates of their sins of omission," it added.

"As the inner core of the Parivar, the top leadership of the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad), Shiv Sena, Bajrang Dal and the BJP bear primary responsibility," it added.

Babri Masjid demolition neither spontaneous nor unplanned: Liberhan- Hindustan Times

 

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A former high court judge, MS Liberhan in his report has called former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi as "pseudo-moderates" and condemned them for their role in the demolition.

Yes. I saw a video on youtube in which vajpayee was giving a speech a night before the incident.

 

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Yes. I saw a video on youtube in which vajpayee was giving a speech a night before the incident.

There is distrubance over this in the parliament.

 

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Kalyan Singh insider that caused collapse of system: Liberhan report

The Liberhan Commission probing the demolition of the Babri Masjid has hit out at then Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh for embarking on a "pogrom leading up to the events of December 6th 1992" as soon he entered office.

In a scathing indictment of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government headed by Kalyan Singh, the one-man commission said in its report: "Kalyan Singh's government was the essential component needed by the Sangh Parivar for its purposes. Kalyan Singh lived up the expectations of the Parivar".

It said in the conclusion chapter that the government had "systematically and in a pre-planned manner removed inconvenient bureaucrats from positions of power, dismantled and diluted the security apparatus and infrastructure, lied consistently to the high court and the Supreme Court of India and to the people of India to evade constitutional governance and thus betrayed the confidence of the electorate".

According to Liberhan, Kalyan Singh maintained a "studied silence" even at the height of the crisis in December 1992 and "refused to allow even a single measure which might impede the Ayodhya campaign or prevent the assault on the disputed structures, the journalists or the innocent people".

The report said that he and his cabinet members "consciously allowed the writ of the extra constitutional authority, i.e. the RSS, to run the state.

"The chief minister and his cabinet were the proverbial insiders who caused the collapse of the entire system."

Even when it was brought to his notice that the Babri Masjid had been demolished and mobs were attacking Muslims in Ayodhya, he did not direct the police "to use force or resort to firing to chase away the miscreants or to save the lives of those wretched innocents..."

"The wanton violence against human life and property continued unabated and even at that late stage, the chief minister did not use the central forces which could have been swiftly deployed," the report states.

Kalyan Singh insider that caused collapse of system: Liberhan report- Hindustan Times