The Justice Liberhan Commission has today submitted its report on the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya on 6th December 1992. When the commission was set up by the then Narsimha Rao on 16th December 1992, the commission was supposed to submit the report within 3 months. Seculasists in India will be glad that the report has finally been submitted, although it took 17 years to submit a report on persons and organizations whose role in the most shameful expression of Fascism in India.
The report of the commission is said to hold several leaders of the BJP and other saffrone parties, including LK Advani, Vinay Katiar, Uma Bharti, and MM Joshi. It is also said to be critical of Kalyan Singh, the then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Narsimh Rao himself.
Everyone who felt that the shameful incident tarnished the fabric of secularism in this country will be happy to see the real prospect of the culprits finally being made to own up what they did.
But there is a cause for concern- if CNN IBN which claims that it has seen parts of the report is to be believed, the report does not hold Advani responsible for the propagation of hatred and the hate speeches he made which ultimately acted as catalyst for the demolition. Everyone in India knows what role Advani and his Rath Yatra played in the demolition.
Nobody disagrees with the fact that the incident changed the political landscape of this country forever, but when it comes to the view that the change that resulted in the rise of the right wing saffrone politics was for the worse, there has been differing opinions.
Now, 17 years after the shameful incident, with the report on the Governments table, ready to be presented in the Parliament, one can only hope that the Government will take solid actions and give all the people responsible for the incident will be given the punishments they deserve.
lots of points to be noted. advani made hate speeches, but u cant blame him directly.. direct blame has to be on the then CM Kalyan Singh, esp considering that fact that he had promised o protect the mosque.
ReplyDeleteSomething i lik to mention is about CNN IBN. Frankly, im fed up with hem, hey are no news reports, rather news creators, who solely survive on sensationalizing each petty incident. And no, I dont consider this as petty, but just mentioned it.
something even frightening is, the bjp took a sep backward from their hinduvita is the just concluded election and they were shattered. they will be forced to look at it again, else they dont have a future in this country. its truely frightening for a secular indian citizen