New Delhi, November 28: The RSS today hit out at the report of the Liberhan Commission that went into the Babri Masjid demolition in Ayodhya saying it was a ‘damp squib’ that would not get the privilege of being tabled in Parliament but reduced to a newspaper scoop and TV news breaks.
In its mouthpiece ‘Organiser,’ the RSS said the Commission was to unravel the ”conspiracy” behind the Babri Masjid demolition that looked Islamic from outside but a holiest Hindu pilgrim place from inside.
The optimists expected Justice Manmohan Singh Liberhan to deliver some kind of report that could be discussed across the benches in Parliament and given a decent place in its archives, but the report could not even achieve this, the editorial noted. Dismissing the theory of conspiracy, the ‘Organiser’ said it was basically a Hindu issue and there was no question of a conspiracy.
Hindus had been demanding that they be allowed to build a grand temple befitting the birth place of Lord Rama. The paper said while the secular politicians dithered, the Hindu society took the matter into its hands and set about the task of achieving it. What happened in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992 was a ”spontaneous” manifestation of collective Hindu angst and faith.
Anyone who was in Ayodhya on that ”historic day” would not be looking for a conspiracy, it added. ”Justice Liberhan was not there on that day so he was only reconstructing as his fancy took him,” the paper said. The ”biggest undoing” of the whole thing was that no one was happy about the report. The ”pseudo secularists” — a section predominantly made of Hindus — felt that not enough had been said to implicate the culprits and the Muslims, who were unhappy that some home truths had been said about them.
The RSS said they were uncomfortable why they considered themselves as ”deprived and backwards” while they themselves were the rulers of the country for centuries. An answer would show their leaders in bad light. ”One natural question was if former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh was culpable, why not then Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao?” the paper asked. The only beneficiary of the whole event was the UPA because of the ”timing of the leak”. Home Minister P Chidambarm asked in the Lok Sabha if he was foolish enough to bring embarrassment to himself and the Government by leaking the report, it said adding that the embarrassment was nothing compared to the scene they would have faced questions if the attention of MPs had not been diverted from price rise, internal security and the series of scandals.
Justice Liberhan has served one more purpose for Indians that they would never again expect and hope for any good to come out of a commission of inquiry, the RSS observed.
——-Agencies