‘Vajpayee, Advani brought India to brink of communal discord’

NEW DELHI: The top BJP leadership including Atal Bihari Vajpayee, L K Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi have been severely indicted and called "pseudo-moderates" by a Commission that probed the demolition of Babri Masjid 17 years ago.

The Justice M S Liberhan Commission of Inquiry also attacked former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh saying the destruction of the disputed structure on December 6, 1992 was carried out in a "duplicitous and under-handed manner" which was not worthy of a democratically-elected government.

The four-volume report, running into over 1000 pages, and the government's Action Taken Report (ATR) on it were tabled in Parliament by Home Minister P Chidambaram, a day after a leak of the report in a national daily. ...Read More