NEW DELHI, Nov 20 (UNI) Former prime minister V P Singh today said that VHP and BJP leaders "refusal to abide by the constitution and law and making promises with a design to break it later" was the root cause which complicated the Ayodhya dispute making the country suffer immense trauma on the issue.
Deposing before the Liberhan Commission of inquiry into the December 6, 1992 demolition of the disputed structure in Ayodhya, Mr Singh blamed the Vishwa Hindu Parishad for going back on its written commitment and the BJP for its efforts to get political mileage from the Ayodhya dispute.
He also charged the Congress with committing the biggest mistake of allowing the Shilanyas in the disputed area and thereby giving "a root and place to the dispute which was in the air only.
It got a local address right away by the Shilanyas." He said at the time of Shilanyas, the VHP leaders had made a written commitment to the then union home minister Buta Singh that they would abide by the court order on the issue, but "their backing out from this commitment was the basic cause of all the problems that we are facing." "If the building of Ram temple in Ayodhya was a matter of faith and not justiciable, how then did the VHP give a written commitment that it would abide by the courts order.
This duplicity is the root cause of all the problems that we are facing today," he observed.
He also accused the BJP of using falsehood in their work for lord Ram.
They had categorically assured the Janata Dal before elections in 1989 that Ayodhya was neither on their political agenda nor in their main manifesto to get political mileage of an alliance with the JD, but suddenly, when it suited them, they not only brought it on their agenda but also became its leader with the Rath Yatra, he said.
"Similarly, the BJP government led by Mr Kalyan Singh in Uttar Pradesh gave affidavits after affidavits that all measures would be taken to secure the disputed structure.
Inspite of all these assurances, none of these was implemented, rather they were deliberately violated," he said.
The Kalyan Singh government to stay in power made all assurances and then breached the courts order also, he added.
Mr Singh said as the prime minister he had made full efforts to arrive at an amicable solution of the Ayodhya dispute and met with leaders of both the Babri Masjid Action Committee and the VHP to sort out the matter.
While the BMAC leaders said they were ready to comply with the courts order on the issue and even to limit their claim to only the disputed structure and the area surrounding it, the VHP leaders were not ready to submit themselves to the courts order in the matter stating that "as a matter of faith it was outside the courts jurisdiction." About us | Advertisers | Other Publications | Subscriptions | Advertising Weather | Letters | Search | Suggestions | Send Mail | Vaishnodevi ________________________________________________________ (c) 1998, The Kashmir Times Press Pvt.
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