New Delhi: “Former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao was the prime culprit in the demolition of the Babri Masjid as he acted in such a manner that he would not be blamed for this National Dishonour and virtual collusion of the judiciary and executive in this shameful act.” This is what summed up by the distinguished Constitutional expert and political commentator A. G. Noorani in his latest book on the Ajodhya dispute titled as ‘Destruction of the Babri Masjid: A National Dishonour’.
In this seminal work, which is a third volume on the issue and is a sequel to The Babri Masjid Question 1528–2003: ‘A Matter of National Honour’, (published in 2003 in two volumes), Noorani has encompassed recent history and several disclosures regarding the destruction of the 400 year-old mosque in Ajodhya. The book was released at a ceremony held on Wednesday evening at the residence of former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. The book traced conspiracy and discussed how the civil and criminal cases concerning the title to the Babri Masjid and accountability for its demolition on December 6, 1992, have all but run their course. The author also blamed Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party led so called secular governments of Uttar Pradesh which have shown little guts and proved hindrance in the way of pursuing cases against the accused including BJP bigwigs like of Advani and Joshi.
The author said in the preface of the book that “In the courts of law and justice, the civil and criminal cases concerning the title to the Babri Masjid and accountability for its destruction, on 6 December 1992, have all but run their course. Neither legality nor justice has been conspicuous in the proceedings or in the many judgments delivered. On past form, there is little hope for redress in legal proceedings after that grave and utterly wasteful crime. . . . The forces of India’s secularism can ignore the challenges ahead only at the nation’s peril. At stake is the survival of India’s democracy and its corollary, secularism.”
He asserted that the evidence in the book nails Narasimha Rao shows his culpability. He was the man, who knew what was happening and he kept his eyes shut. “But Rao did all that. From the record which I had laid hands on, it is very clear that he was communal- minded. He had a record of communal mindedness when he was chief minister of Andhra Pradesh. He had a bad record during the struggle against Nizam in Hyderabad. At one time, Advani also praised him, called and him fantastic. I must mention also that it required chief justice like Justice Venkatachaliah, to make demolition possible. I have documented that Venkatachaliah facilitated demolition by giving those adjournments and after the demolition, Attorny General Milon Banerjee reminded him, “I had warned your lordship.” Venkatachaliah went so far saying, I hope you are looking after the health of the kar sevaks. And sure enough, because of this he was appointed chairman of Constitution Review Committee by the BJP government,” Noorani said.
He also accused the CBI of playing a deceitful role in the demolition cases. He pointed that when Advani was in power, CBI had one role, and when he was not in power, it played a different game.
Describing the demolition of Babri Masjid was a watershed in Indian history, Noorani said it propelled Advani into a position of leadership and it seemed he would become prime minister and it did help spread the message of Hindutva but it did not last long as could be seen in the election results of 2004 and 2009.
In the book, he also argued that Babri Masjid should not have been allowed to be made a Muslim issue alone saying Muslim leadership made considerable mistakes like the Babri Masjid Action Committee’s stupid call of boycott of all official functions of Republic Day was bound to have negative impact.
On the Allahabad High Court judgment on the title suit of the Babri Masjid, he said that the majority judgment of the two Hindu judges of High Court recalled the cases of those demolitions by Muslim rulers as if that sanctifies demolition now. Contending this, Noorani said prominent historian Romila Thapar has very well documented how Buddhist places of worship were demolished by Hindus and vice versa. A Hindu Kashmiri King Harshdev looted temples to fill his coffers. He warned that such justification will open a Pandora Box with no end.He said that the ball is now in the Supreme Court. “And on past performance, really, we can’t say, when the case will be heard.”
It is to be mentioned here that in the present volume, Noorani covered the three Allahabad High Court judgments, the Liberhan Commission Report, the tortuous course of the criminal cases, and disclosures and developments in the last decade –from 2003 till the end of 2013. An Introduction surveys the events before and after the demolition of the Babri Masjid, and analyses the judgments delivered by the three judges of the Allahabad High Court in 2010.
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Brief about the author:
(A.G. Noorani is an Advocate, Supreme Court of India, and a leading constitutional expert and political commentator. He is a regular columnist for Frontline and the author of numerous books, including The Destruction of Hyderabad (2013), The Kashmir Dispute 1947–2012, in two volumes (2013), Islam, South Asia and the Cold War (2012), Article 370: A Constitutional History of Jammu and Kashmir (2011), Jinnah and Tilak: Comrades in the Freedom Struggle (2010), India–China Boundary Problem 1846–1947: History and Diplomacy (2010), Indian Political Trials 1775–1947 (2006), Constitutional Questions and Citizens’ Rights (2006), The Muslims of India: A Documentary Record (editor, 2003), and Islam and Jihad: Prejudice versus Reality (2003).
According to Wikipedia
It was because of this persecution, several centuries before the arrival of Islam, that the philosophy of the Buddha, once a serious rival to Hinduism, virtually disappeared from India: Harsha Deva, a single Kashmiri raja, for example boasted that he had destroyed no less than 4,000 Buddhist shrines.
Unfortunately even after 20 odds years no one got punished ? where is justice ?
What’s most shocking is not just the demolition of Babri Masjid, but all those who did walk Scot free. #Shame
#Justice4Babri
Rao is a hero of india that is my view but rao is a enemy of muslims that is ur view .same as we believe that Babar is a enemy of india but babar is a hero of muslims. That is only line to descibe ur hate theory.
Ambedkar is the Hero of India, Brahmins are enemy of India…….this is the moral of the story.
then y are u staying in india , country controlled by brahmins .. go to porkistan
Brahmin never controlled or ruled the country in their dreams.
Let us not forget the statistical, historical fact that Muslims constituted, percentage wise, during the entire Mughal Period, Babar to Bahadur Shah Zafar, not more than what they were in pre-partition, aka, British India, or NOW. How can we conclude that Muslims consider them their “heroes”. How many hospitals, learning institutions, infra structure did they build and leave behind from which commoners, Hindus and Muslims alike, could benefit then, after they became history. They simply built “shrines’, under the garb of “fancy graves” (completely unislamic; even Aurungzeb is not excluded here, e.g., Bibi ka Maqbara in Aurangabad), Badshahi Masjid in Lahore, which later day Muslims could not save from the takeover of Sikhs (Ranjit Singh). Defending places of worship, especially monotheistic, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam preferentially, too, is a Quranic requirement. Muslims must obey it, no matter what.
In my honest judgment, it does not sound rational?? They came to loot India, not spread Islam, as traders did in Indonesia, Malaysia, both Muslim-majority countries then and now. Whatever good was built, still usable by Indians, irrespective of their religious faith, was done by “non-Babaris”, so to say. For example, GT Road, from East to West, with trees on both sides, was built by Sher Shah, a non-Babari. Fatepur Sikri has been abandoned, despite Akbar’s “deen-e-ilahi” and other attempts, all capricious or epicurean. Check the same Wikipedia/Internet for the veracity of my argument. In this age of inter-connectivity via various vehicles, let us open both our heart and mind to be kind and gracious to each other. For my Muslim brothers/friends, hypocrisy is a grave/major sin, and hypocrites will face the lowest/hottest pit/ebb of HELL in the Afterlife, another Quranic must. To resolve Indian issues, Hindutva or whatever the former rascal-occupier, be it British or self-claimed Muslim (Mughals, emphatically). They did “similar damage”, believe me, as the present ISIS, IS, ISIL, OBL, KSA, UAE, and other letters of the English alphabet are presently doing, and calling it Islam, and un-remorsely so. To conclude, I am ashamed of them, and to paraphrase Desmond Tutoo, Islam as a faith is good, but radical present-day Muslims, like Budhists of Burma (present Myanmar), Ceylon (recently Sri Lanka), and Hindus, under BJP/RSS/PMNM and some “posters” are far from their Faith, and “some of them are equally” terrorising. It is a shame, and a Lose-Lose solution, not a win-win. May God help us!
Only civil, rational replies will be responded. Ranting, abusive “replies” will hit the “garbage”, “hit del”, so to say.
People of this country has witnessed who looted the country ? and who made the country the most beautiful place to live ? ask the tourist why they are visiting to our country to look the historical places like Taj Mahal, Qutab Minar, Lal Qilah or the modern India ?
Fro Your kind information, Aurangazeb did not build Bibi kaa Maqbra bu by his eldest son Muzzam in memory of his mother Rabia Begum.
You are comparing Rao with Babar ?
Babar was the King of his own empire, whereas Rao was the elected PM of secular India.
Babar built a mosque for worshipping the people, whereas Rao was destroyed the mosque with the believed that the masjid was constructed on Temple, without any proof.
Babar made India a beautiful place to live, whereas Rao destroyed the ethos of Secular India, with evil intentions.
Therefore, Babar was labelled as enemy of India by a certain section of people like RSS, whereas Rao is declared as failed PM of India under his rule a dent has ocurred to the secularism of India in destroyig the place of worshipped.
babar never built a mosque .. he distroyed a temple to make his mosque .. and now NAMO will make the temple again … wait n watch
That’s was your RSS ideology and your modi never make the temple legally in his life time. He is the man who is interested in making tiolets specially for women, he is the man of development to provide and facilitate all his support to Adanis and Ambanis, He is the man to bring the black money from swiss bank after the account holders withdrew their money from their banks. People like you dream about hindu rashtrya (never happened legally) and ram temple (never going to exist legally) and he will enjoy this life !
dont tell me that .. keep reading the news and u wil witness the inauguration of the Ram mandir … just give it time
I said you and your modi will not construct the Ram Mandir legally, whereas they destroyed the Masjid illegally in secular India. If at all you are planning to construct the temple illegally, and how bhagwan will accept all the prayers ? afraid of bhagwan not muslims ?
THERE ARE ONLY 2 RELIGIONS
1. RELIGION OF THE CREATOR
The creator of universe and mankind stays above the universe never comes on earth. He sends down his commandments through angels to his messengers on earth. He is The Creator of all, has no parents, no wife nor children. He is supreme power no need to change shapes nor ask anyone of his creatures for help. Every thing happens at His wish. He can destroy all his creations. None of his creations can compete in any manner. He commands only his worship. He punishes those who worship any of his creations.
2. RELIGION OF THE CREATED
The created he she or it lives on earth. They and their believers write holy books, its human literature not divine. They have parents, with wives produce children. They are not supreme power they ask others help. They fight wars to destroy the evil and their enemies. They don’t bother if other gods are also worshiped. They cannot protect their worshipers from other Gods rivalry. If there are more than one God will they not fight with each other for supremacy?
P.V.Narsimha Rao is a RSS breed what more can you expect, some waste their words on media just for popularity, PVN never opened his mouth but did what RSS wants.
What else to expect from Islamists? You people create hell wherever you go. Sorry for generalising as I want to believe there are a few good people amongst you as well but that fraternity simply isn’t visible. You guys are obsessed with hate and dislike for people of other faiths and that’s a fact for sure.
@kavita rao……and what else is expected from a hindutwaadi moron like you….whose whole and sole aim is to descredit and demean islam /muslims at any given oppourtunity…..care to ponder over your own manuwaad-hindutwaad treatment of datilts/harijans since time immemorial…..and its still an ongoing process to date…ask any social scientist of repute and researcher to ..vouch the fact….do try to find out who “gassed to death ” three million jews in 1940’s ( endolusung/final solution/holocaust) in christain europe under the passivd condone of vatican. do find out about the inquistion of christain europe in iberia/spain….decimation/genocide of indigenious people of americas in the name of conquisition..rape of nanking and indo burma by buddhist japanese in second world war…millions of death by pol pot buddhists in loas ..vientaine….cambodia….do find out how king ashoka massacared lakhs in erstwhile kalinga empire….care to find out how seven thousand sikhs were masacarred in operation bluestar-1984 by indian army and adminst…..do care to find out about the slow motion genocide of muslim masses by sanghi bajrangi murderers with active convinance of state and central govt nod…..eg operation polo (1948/hyderabad)….ahemdabad(1969/2002)….rourkela…moradabad….maliana/hasimpuraa….bhiwandi(1984)…mumbai(1993/4)…..and all sidelined by major n minor riots with the sole intention to “tame” muslims…the witchhunt against muslims against the backdrop of bogey of islamic terror in league with neo/zio anarchists…esp against indian muslims…false trumped up terror charges against muslim youths…..while govt of indian providing full immunity/impunity to hindu fascists in the name of patriotism/cultural nationalism…..while yakub memon got the noose…while self procalimed hindu thug/demagouge Bal keshav thackhray got state funeral with 21 gun salute….shows the volume of tolerance and rubber stamp secularism…..so kavita ji rather than mudslinging on muslims care to ponder over your own hate/spitefull mindset that is so impregnated with distorted bhagwaa history and spoonfed daily “patriotic mainstream hindu media” that is always on prowl to savage islam and muslims in the falsified manner esp in regard to so called minority backwardness and islamic terror…while bhagwaa terrorists have a field day to intimidate the minorities in the name of love jihaad and ghar waapsi…with delhi(1984) kandhamal ( 2008 )….and simple no convictions of the preperators shows facts against your sly ficticious lies of hindutwaadi mindset……hell to hindutwaad.
The demolition of Babri Masjid was an unfortunate incident because there was no proof whether Babri Masjid was built on a temple & hence the culprits should be punished.
But, few years back high court’s judgement says that there was really a temple below Babri masjid & hence now muslim community should give up Babri masjid place to Hindus & let hindus build Ram temple.
The similar process can be followed for Kashi & Mathura as well. I mean first court will investigate the existence of temple below mosque & then build temple accordingly.