Mani Shankar Aiyar blames Narasimha Rao for Babri demolition

Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar has blamed the then Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao for the 1992 demolition of the Babri Masjid.

"On Narsimha Rao, we have a very CNN-blinkered view of him. True, he started something known as economic reforms for good or for ill, but he was the one responsible for what happended at the Babri Masjid," Aiyar said.

The late Rao was the prime minister when the Babri mosque at Ayodhya was demolished by a charged up mob on December 6, 1992.

"He (Rao) proved that death is not a necessary pre-condition for rigor mortis to set in. It was the biggest disaster that overtook this country because the rift in our politics is not between right wing economic policies and left wing economic policies, it is over the nature of our nationhood. Are we a secular nation? An inclusive nation? Or are we a Hindu nation?" Aiyar added.