Heated scenes are expected in Parliament this week with the Lok Sabha scheduled to take up a debate on the Liberhan Commission report.
Heated scenes are expected in Parliament this week with the Lok Sabha scheduled to take up a debate on the Liberhan Commission report.
The Lower House will debate on Tuesday and Wednesday on the voluminous report of the Commission which went into the demolition of the Babri Masjid way back in December 1992.
Rajya Sabha will have a discussion on the report on December seven, a day after the 17th anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid.
BJP is at daggers drawn with Congress over the issue and the discussion is expected to generate heat in both Houses.
BJP is likely to field a battery of leaders to discuss the report in which even L K Advani may participate.
But it is still unclear whom Congress will line up and whether Rahul Gandhi will lead the ruling side in the attack on BJP and the Sangh Parivar on the issue.
For BJP, its president Rajnath Singh will open the debate in the Lower House, while Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley will take up the task in the Upper House.
During the Assembly election campaign in Uttar Pradesh, Rahul Gandhi had remarked that if someone from the Gandhi family had been at the helm of affairs in 1992, the demolition of Babri Masjid would not have taken place.
Asked whether Gandhi would participate in the discussions, a senior Congress leader said the party has not yet finalised its speakers. "We will, however, not be found wanting on this score," he said.
BJP Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj has alleged that the report was leaked to destroy the opposition unity witnessed during the agitation against the sugarcane control order.
The charge was, however, denied by the ruling Congress.
BJP is strongly protesting the Commission's findings that former Prime Minister and party patriarch Atal Bihari Vajpayee are among the 68 people culpable for leading the country to the "brink of communal discord" over the Ayodhya issue.
It has been saying that Vajpayee had not even been called by the Commission which has now sought to indict him.
The main opposition is agitated over the clean chit given to late Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao and his government in the findings.
In reply, Home Minister P Chidambaram is expected to detail the steps being contemplated by the government over the findings of the Commission which took 17 long years to complete the task.
The Left parties, the Samajwadi Party as also the BSP are critical of both BJP and Congress over the issue. While BJP and the Sangh Parivar are being blamed for the demolition, Congress is being targeted for the failure of its government to protect the 16th century monument.
According to the Commission, Kalyan Singh, who was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh then and now an independent member of the Lok Sabha, led the "cartel" that oversaw the demolition.
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