New Delhi, December 08:The BJP said the Liberhan Commission report on the demolition of Babri Masjid should be scrapped ‘lock, stock and barrel’, warning that it has the potential to whip up communal frenzy in the country.
Deputy leader of the party in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj also sought to dare the government by declaring that its leaders “inside and outside Parliament” were ready for any punishment.
Participating in a debate on the report, she questioned the motives of Justice Liberhan in indicting her party leaders, as she dubbed the report as a document authored by “an opportunist” with political intentions.
Seeking to drag Prime Minister Manmohan Singh into the issue, she said at the time of demolition in December 1992, he was the Finance Minister in the then P V Narasimha Rao government and could not escape the responsibility.
“In the name of God, you (the Home Minister) should disown the report, as it can cause communal discord and whip up communal passion and violence in the country. Scrap this report lock, stock and barrel,” she said.
Questioning the authorship of the report on the Babri Masjid demolition, she said there was ample indication that the retired Supreme Court judge had not penned it.
“Justice Liberhan has not written the report. The government should reveal who wrote the report,” she said, adding this itself was a matter that needs to be investigated.
–Agencies