Terming the Liberhan Commission report a “political document”, Bharatiya Jan Shakti president Uma Bharti on Tuesday urged BJP leader LK Advani to steer the country in resolving the protracted Ayodhya dispute.
Bharti, indicted by the commission, said she will support Advani in any effort for a permanent solution and one that paves the way for construction of a Ram Mandir at the disputed site. She, however, refrained from making any comment on whether she intended to return to the BJP.
“This (Ayodhya) issue needs to be resolved immediately for the country to return to the main political agenda.” She said she will meet VHP leader Ashok Singhal in this regard on Wednesday.
“This is the right time to resolve this frozen issue,” Bharti said. “This political game on an issue of deep importance to Hindus should stop. Political parties should convince Muslims to allow construction of a Ram Mandir. Ayodhya is to Hindus what Mecca is to Muslims. The site is not of any big religious importance to Muslims,” she said.
The former BJP leader was among those who spearheaded the kar seva that led to the Babri Masjid’s demolition. She owned full moral responsibility for the events in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992. “It was on my call that people had congregated.” But the structure, she said, would have remained intact had the administration allowed thousands of volunteers to do kar seva.
She saluted then PM Narasimha Rao for not sending paramilitary troops immediately. “Thousands of people would have died. I salute Rao that he sent the troops only after kar sevaks had dispersed from the demolished site,” Bharti said.
Condemning the commission for wasting crores of rupees to give a mere “general assessment,” Bharti said this report could have been readied within a month of the demolition. “It is more of a gospel.”
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