The BJP today demanded a statement by prime minister Manmohan Singh on the Central government's role during the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992 and said it would move a breach of privilege motion in Parliament for the leak of Liberhan commission report.
"Narasimha Rao is not there, but Manmohan Singh was the number two man in that government. He should come out with a statement," BJP national spokesman Prakash Javadekar told newsmen here.
"We will move a breach of privilege motion in the House over the leak for which we are giving a notice," Javadekar said.
"The leak was a political move by the Congress to defame BJP, but it backfired on them. Due to united pressure by the opposition the government was compelled to place the report," he said.
"The Liberhan Commission report which is not based on evidence is a scrap. We reject it and it should be thrown into dustbin. There was no pre-planned conspiracy. It was a mass movement which led to the demolition of the disputed structure," Javadekar said.
He slammed the Commission for indicting former prime minister and party stalwart Atal Behari Vajpayee in its report "without any evidence".
Javadekar said that Vajpayee who was neither given notice nor summoned by the commission was indicted, while former prime minister PV Narasimha Rao was given a clean chit.
"The Commission has no right to indict Vajpayee," he said. Javadekar said that he was present in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992 where, he said, ten lakh people had assembled.
"Conspiracy is not hatched by so many people. The terrorist attack in Mumbai last November can be called a conspiracy," he said.
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