Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:07:45 +0000

New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Two days after his expulsion, Amar Singh Thursday accused the Samajwadi Party of using him like a “dustbin”, but insisted he had no differences with Mulayam Singh Yadav. Amar Singh said he was being blamed for various decisions the Samajwadi Party took, including the controversial wooing of former Bharatiya Janata [...]

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:11:43 +0000

New Delhi, Jan 29 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday sought the government’s stand on a plea for reviving a 1996 order of the Allahabad High Court to help Hindu pilgrims visit the make-shift Ram temple at Ayodhya, built at the site of the demolished Babri mosque. A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, Justice V.S. Sirpurkar [...]

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:25:43 +0000

New Delhi, Jan 28 (IANS) A day after Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa told people to “chop off hands” of those vandalising churches in the state, his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sought to soft-pedal the remarks, saying they should be seen in the context of his government’s resolve to stop any violence. “It is not [...]

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:39:50 +0000

Lucknow, Jan 6 (IANS) Supporters of former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh created a ruckus in Uttar Pradesh’s Faizabad district after the authorities disallowed him to enter the disputed site in Ayodhya with his security guards, officials said Wednesday. Following the objections of the authorities, Singh ultimately had to leave behind his security guards before [...]

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:29:25 +0000

New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) Sonia Gandhi praised contributions of all Congress prime ministers except P. V. Narasimha Rao in her speech Monday during the foundation stone-laying function of the Congress headquarters in Delhi to mark 125 years of the party’s formation. Making no mention of Rao in her 15-minute speech, she said Rajiv Gandhi [...]

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:31:19 +0000

Lucknow, Dec 21 (ANI): The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has sought action against those responsible for the demolition of Babri mosque. Addressing reporters here on Sunday, Maulana Abdul Rahim Quraishi, spokesman of the AIMPLB, welcomed the findings of Liberhan Commission report that probed the demolition and demanded a criminal charge against all conspirators. “The [...]

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:49:24 +0000

Lucknow, Dec 20 (IANS) Other than not indicting former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) Sunday said it saw nothing wrong with the Liberhan Commission report on the demolition of the Babri mosque. Speaking at the conclusion of a day-long meeting of the board’s executive here, AIMPLB secretary [...]

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:03:13 +0000

Ayodhya (Uttar Pradesh), Dec 11 (ANI): The families of kar sevaks killed during the Babri Mosque demolition in Ayodhya, today slammed the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L K Advani for deserting them. Ayodhya was the epicenter of a movement, where the Ram temple was to be built [...]

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:31:55 +0000

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Terming Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) position on demolition of the Babri mosque as a “national shame”, the Congress said Thursday that the opposition party was taking the country in a wrong direction “in the name of Lord Ram”. “Don’t make false arguments. You will regret it tomorrow. You are taking [...]

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:15:07 +0000

New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) demanded Wednesday that all cases related to the Babri mosque razing must be clubbed before the Supreme Court and it should be urged to give an early verdict. Participating in the debate on the Liberhan Commission report in the Rajya Sabha, CPI-M leader Sitaram [...]

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:55:31 +0000

New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) The Congress Wednesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allied groups of resorting to a “cold-blooded conspiracy” to demolish the Babri mosque in 1992. “The central theme is not Atal Behari Vajpayee, P.V. Narasimha Rao, factual inaccuracies or leakage (of the Liberhan report) but who broke the [...]

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:18:23 +0000

New Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) Amid acrimony in the Lok Sabha, Home Minister P. Chidambaram held the Sangh Parivar responsible for the demolition of the Babri mosque in 1992 and dismissed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sushma Swaraj’s contention that there was no conspiracy behind the incident. In his reply to the debate on the [...]

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:57:46 +0000

New Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday termed the Liberhan Commission report “perverse, baseless and ill-founded”, while the Congress blamed its political opponents for playing “divisive politics” and accused them of making false promises to protect the Babri mosque. At the end of the acrimonious two-day debate on the Liberhan report, [...]

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:54:43 +0000

New Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) The Congress admitted Tuesday that its leader and former prime minister P.V. Narasimha Rao was not alert enough to prevent the demolition of the Babri mosque. Participating in the debate in the Lok Sabha on the Liberhan Commission report, party MP Beni Prasad Verma placed the major share of the [...]

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:31:24 +0000

New Delhi, Dec.8 (ANI): Opposition parties led by Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday created ruckus in the Lok Sabha by resorting to loud sloganeering to disrupt Union Home Minister P.Chidambaram while making a statement over the Librehan Commission’s report related to Babri mosque demolition during the ongoing discussion. Amidst slogan shouting of “Jai Jai” [...]

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:44:10 +0000

New Delhi, Dec 8 (ANI): The discussion of the Liberhan Commission’s Report on the Babri Mosque demolition and the Action Taken Report (ATR) is expected to continue in Parliament for the second day today. On Monday, the debate on the report was all fire and brimstone with the government and the opposition trading charges against [...]

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:13:27 +0000

New Delhi, Dec 7 (IANS) Accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of exploiting the Ayodhya issue for political purposes, Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid Monday said the party should regret orchestrating the issue. Participating in the debate in the Lok Sabha on the Liberhan Commission report, Khurshid, Congress MP from Farrukhabad in Uttar Pradesh, also [...]

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:55:36 +0000

New Delhi, Dec 7 (ANI): Both Houses of the Parliament on Monday witnessed a heated debate on the findings of Liberhan Commission of inquiry into the demolition of the Babri Mosque. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) demanded to bring leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who have been accused by the Commission to [...]

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:02:13 +0000

New Delhi, Dec 7 (ANI): Senior Communist leader Gurudas Dasgupta on Monday said the Babri Mosque demolition was meticulously planned and opined that it could not have been prevented. Initiating the debate on Liberhan Commission in the Lok Sabha, Dasgupta said: “I am ashamed to say that the demolition was a result of a meticulous [...]

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:47:01 +0000

New Delhi, Dec 7 (ANI): The Liberhan Commission’s Report on the Babri Mosque demolition and the Action Taken Report (ATR) is being discussed in Parliament, and preliminary information reveals that the debate is all fire and brimstone. Both the government and the opposition are determined to prove their points in the debate being held in [...]

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:30:12 +0000

New Delhi, Dec 7 (ANI): The Liberhan Commission’s Report on the Babri Mosque demolition and the Action Taken Report (ATR) on it, will be discussed in Parliament today. Lok Sabha Speaker, Meira Kumar has said the discussion would be held under Rule 193 that does not entail voting. The BJP and the Samajwadi Party are expected [...]

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:21:29 +0000

Gandhinagar, Dec 6 (IANS) Former Gujarat chief ministers Shankersinh Vaghela and Suresh Mehta were detained in Ahmedabad Sunday while they were on their way to lead a rally to protest against the policies of Narendra Modi government. The former chief ministers and ex-Congress MP Madhusudan Mistry were later released in the evening. Activists of Congress affiliated [...]

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:36:23 +0000

Ayodhya, Dec.6 (ANI): Curfew like situation prevailed in Ayodhya city on Sunday (Dec.6) on the 17th anniversary of the demolition of Babri mosque by Kar Sewaks (Hindu volunteers). Paramilitary personnel patrolled the streets and kept a tight vigil to ward off any untoward incidents. “We are fully prepared and have also deployed men on rooftops. And we [...]

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:04:29 +0000

Coimbatore, Dec.6 (ANI): The 17th anniversary of Babri mosque demolition in Ayodhya, which occured on Dec.6, 1992, saw demonstrations being staged by Muslim and Hindu groups at different places in Coimbatore city of Tamil Nadu. Thousands of Muslims in Coimbatore staged a demonstration asking the government to handover the disputed place in Ayodhya to their [...]

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:45:04 +0000

Ayodhya, Dec 6 (IANS) The 17th anniversary of the Babri mosque’s demolition Sunday evoked little response from the people of Ayodhya and remained a “private affair” in this ancient temple town as authorities had banned any public assembly on grounds of security. While the Vishwa Hindu Parisdhad (VHP) marked it as “Shaurya Diwas (Valour day)”, [...]

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:25:57 +0000

Ayodhya, Dec 6 (ANI): Security was beefed up at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh on the Babri demolition anniversary on Sunday. In 1992, on the same day, the disputed mosque was brought down by Hindu fanatics, as they believed it to be the birth place of Lord Rama. The event ending being one of the worst communal riots [...]

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:34:17 +0000

Gandhinagar, Dec 6 (IANS) Former Gujarat chief ministers Shankersinh Vaghela and Suresh Mehta and former Congress MP Madhusudan Mistry were detained in Ahmedabad Sunday while they were on their way to lead a rally to protest against the policies of the Narendra Modi government. Skirmishes between Congress workers and the police marked the arrest of [...]

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:51:00 +0000

Patna, Dec 6 (IANS) Bihar was on high alert Sunday on the 17th Babri mosque demolition anniversary and additional forces were deployed in communally sensitive areas to prevent any trouble, police said. Bihar police chief Anand Shankar said all senior police officials at district levels have been directed to monitor the situation and keep a close [...]

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:11:03 +0000

New Delhi, Dec 6 (IANS) The 17th anniversary of the Babri mosque demolition saw both protests as well as celebratory marches by different groups in the capital Sunday. Staging a protest at the Jantar Mantar near the central business hub of Delhi, members of the All India Babri Masjid Rebuilding Committee (AIBMRC) demanded that the [...]

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:47:59 +0000

Chandigarh, Dec. 5 (ANI): RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Saturday said that the Sangh has no reason to regret the Babri mosque demolition that happened 17 years ago and it would continue with the Ram temple movement. “We want the Ram temple to be built there and we have been working towards the construction of the [...]

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:20:22 +0000

Chandigarh, Dec 5 (IANS) On the eve of the Babri Masjid demolition anniversary, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat said Saturday that the Hindu group has “no regrets” about the razing of the mosque in Ayodhya 17 years ago. Speaking at the Chandigarh Press Club, the RSS chief, responding to a question on whether [...]

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:55:37 +0000

Ayodhya, Dec 5 (ANI): On the eve of the 17th anniversary of the demolition of Babri mosque in Ayodhya, some Muslims organizations here recalled the event that resulted in horror in various parts of the country. Recalling, Azmad Ullah, a local, whose brother and nephew were killed in riots following the event demanded that mosque [...]

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:22:53 +0000

New Delhi, Dec 5 (ANI): The Liberhan Commission’s Report on the Babri Mosque demolition and the Action Taken Report (ATR) on it, will be discussed in Parliament on Monday and Tuesday. Lok Sabha Speaker, Meira Kumar said the discussion would be held under Rule 193 that does not entail voting. Kumar further said the Business Advisory [...]

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:49:46 +0000

New Delhi, Dec 4(ANI): Union Home Ministry on Friday advised all the states to be on high alert on the eve of the 17th anniversary of the demolition of Babri mosque. The demolition of the historical mosque in 1992 sparked one of the worst religious riots since country’s independence in 1947. A Government spokesman said that [...]

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:26:23 +0000

New Delhi, Dec 4 (ANI): Union Government on Friday asked all state governments to be on high alert on December 6, the day on which the Babri Mosque structure at Ayodhya was demolished in 1992. In a communication, the Union Home Ministry said: “It is possible that some misdirected elements may wish to disturb communal peace [...]

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:32:18 +0000

New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) The Congress said Thursday that a court verdict or comprehensive settlement accepted by all stake-holders were the only possible solutions to the Ayodhya dispute. Answering a questions on the promise of the then prime minister Narasimha Rao’s government to rebuild the Babri Mosque following its demolition Dec 6, 1992, party [...]

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:30:59 +0000

Lucknow, Dec 3 (IANS) Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vinay Katiyar Thursday said he will make certain “startling revelations” about the razing of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya Dec 6, 1992, on the 17th anniversary of the incident Sunday. “While some people would hail Dec 6 as ‘victory day’ and others would condemn it [...]

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:20:18 +0000

New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) The Samajwadi Party (SP) Thursday said it would observe the anniversary of the Babri Mosque demolition Dec 6 as a “black day”, and accused the Congress-led central government of giving a clean chit to former prime minister P.V. Narasimha Rao as an “expression of gratitude”. Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav [...]

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:39:07 +0000

By Sharat Pradhan Ayodhya, Dec 3 (IANS) The Liberhan Commission report might be creating ripples in the corridors of power in New Delhi. And preparations for the 17th anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Mosque Dec 6 might also be in full swing. Yet, back on ground zero, all appears to be quiet. Everything appears to [...]

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:49:42 +0000

New Delhi, Dec 2 (IANS) The Liberhan Commission report on the 1992 Babri mosque demolition will be discussed in the Lok Sabha Dec 9 and 10, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sushma Swaraj said Wednesday. She said the the decision was taken at the business advisory committee of the house and added that the [...]

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:14:27 +0000

New Delhi, Nov.30 (ANI): The scheduled parliamentary debate on Liberhan Commission’s report over Babri mosque demolition on Monday evening was postponed for next week due to non-availability of its Hindi version for parliamentarians. The debate was previously schedule to be held on Tuesday (Dec.1). The decision in this regard reportedly came after Samajwadi Party [...]

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:08:40 +0000

New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) The Congress Thursday refuted accusations of bias in the Liberhan Commission report in not blaming the party-led government headed by P.V. Narasimha Rao for the Dec 6, 1992 demolition of the Babri mosque. “The Liberhan Commission did not say that the Rao government was directly or indirectly responsible for the demolition,” [...]

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:54:32 +0000

Kolkata, Nov 25 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday demanded a statement from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the central government’s role on the day the Babri mosque was razed in Ayodhya. Pointing out that Manmohan Singh was the number two man in the then P.V. Narasimha Rao government, BJP spokesman Prakash Javadekar told [...]

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:37:33 +0000

Chandigarh, Nov 25 (IANS) Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani’s counsel Satya Pal Jain Wednesday said the findings of the Liberhan Commission into the 1992 Babri mosque demolition were “vague and uncertain”. “The findings of the commission are vague and uncertain. They are targeting L.K. Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and other leaders without [...]

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:08:29 +0000

New Delhi, Nov 25(ANI): Union Home Ministry on Wednesday drew attention to a telecast made on a news channel and reiterated that the Ministry has absolutely no role in the leakage of the Liberhan Commission report on the Babri Mosque demolition case. “Barkha Dutt, Group Editor of NDTV 24X7, categorically stated that “we will [...]

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:09:01 +0000

New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) Despite holding him guilty for the Babri mosque demolition, Justice M.S. Liberhan has praised Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani for cooperating with the commission. “Persons like Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and (Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh’s) K.S. Sudarshan appeared voluntarily and gave their statements despite their busy schedule and also [...]

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:07:29 +0000

New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) The former counsel to the Liberhan Commission Wednesday described as “vile” attacks on him by judge M.S. Liberhan in the report indicting Hindutva activists for the 1992 Babri mosque razing. Emphasising that he would not like to “dignify” Liberhan’s charge that he forestalled the submission of the 1,029-page report, Anupam [...]

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:31:36 +0000

Lucknow, Nov 25 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Wednesday alleged a Congress-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) “conspiracy” behind what she termed as a “systematic leakage” of the Liberhan Commission report that probed the 1992 demolition of the Babri mosque. “It was this very Congress-BJP secret nexus that led to the demolition of the Babri Masjid [...]

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:09:08 +0000

New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Wednesday accused the Liberhan Commission of “political bias” for giving a virtual clean chit to the Congress government of 1992 over the Babri mosque demolition. The CPI-M said in a statement that it desired to know what action the government of Prime Minister Manmohan [...]

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:19:13 +0000

Lucknow, Nov 25 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Wednesday slammed the Centre for adopting delaying tactics over the presentation of the Liberhan Commission Report on the Babri Mosque demolition case. Addressing the media, a day after the tabling of the Liberhan Report in parliament, Mayawati said: “The [...]

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:45:04 +0000

Lucknow, Nov 25 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati warned Wednesday that her government would take “strict action” against anyone creating law and order problems over the Ayodhya temple-mosque row. Reacting after the report of the Liberhan Commission that probed the Babri mosque razing was tabled in parliament Tuesday, Mayawati hit out at both the [...]

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:24:27 +0000

Lucknow, Nov 25 (ANI): The Babri Masjid Action Committee (BMAC), a Muslim forum that opposes the construction of the Ram temple at the spot of the demolished Babri mosque in Ayodhya, has welcomed the tabling of the Liberhan Commission Report. Talking to reporters here on Tuesday, Zafaryab Jilani, Convenor of BMAC, said: “With this report, one [...]

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:25:44 +0000

New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) Attacking the government for “leakage” of the Liberhan Commission report on the 1992 Babri mosque demolition, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday sought Home Minister P. Chidambaram’s resignation and demanded a joint parliamentary panel probe into it. It termed Liberhan’s report, which indicts top party leaders, as “ill-founded”. Senior BJP [...]

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:18:01 +0000

New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) The following is the sequence of events in brief leading up to the razing of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya on Dec 6, 1992, as recorded in the Liberhan Commission report tabled in parliament Tuesday: 1528 - Founder of Mughal dynasty, Babar, asked his commander Mir Baqi to set up a [...]

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:15:20 +0000

Chandigarh, Nov 24 (IANS) Justice M.S. Liberhan, whose report on the 1992 Babri mosque demolition was tabled in parliament Tuesday, sought “privacy” as he was hounded by the media even when he went to an optician’s shop here. He maintained that he had clearly said everything in his report. “Please respect my privacy. I can assure [...]

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:45:46 +0000

Chandigarh, Nov 24 (IANS) A former counsel to the Liberhan Commission Tuesday alleged that the indictment of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for the Babri mosque dmolition was “outrightly illegal”. Hours after the Liberhan panel report was placed in parliament, Anupam Gupta said this had been done “deliberately” to shift the focus away from [...]

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:30:19 +0000

New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh Tuesday justified the 1992 razing of the Babri mosque and said he suspected a “political conspiracy” behind the Liberhan Commission of Inquiry that has indicted all the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders for its catastrophic event. Unrepentant over the mosque destruction that sparked [...]

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:07:06 +0000

Chandigarh, Nov 24 (IANS) The former counsel to the Liberhan Commission alleged Tuesday that the indictment of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for the Babri mosque razing was “outrightly illegal”. Hours after the Liberhan report was placed in parliament, Anupam Gupta said this had been done deliberately to shift the focus away from Bharatiya [...]

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:05:50 +0000

Chandigarh, Nov 24 (ANI): Commission head Justice Manmohan Singh Liberhan (retired) asked the media to read the mosque probe report, which was tabled in the parliament on Tuesday, and then put up questions in a bid to resolve the controversy, which spiralled up after the report was leaked to the media. “Read the report first [...]

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:06:32 +0000

New Delhi, Nov.24 (ANI): Former firebrand BJP leader and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh on Tuesday condemned the Liberhan Commission report, describing it as politically motivated. He denied that the December 6, 1992 demolition of the Babri mosque was orchestrated or pre-planned. “The report is baseless, meaningless. It stinks of politics, as making [...]

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:03:09 +0000

ZCZCANI (National)New Delhi, Nov.24 (ANI): Even as the details of the Liberhan Commission’s findings are yet to be revealed to the public due to the availability of limited copies of the English version, the 13-page Action Taken Report (ATR) of the government have been put in the public domain. Justice M S Liberhan had submitted [...]

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:38:51 +0000

New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) The Liberhan Commission of Inquiry that probed the 1992 razing of the Babri mosque found 68 people culpable for leading the country to the brink of communal discord. This includes Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who later became the prime minister. The names (in the order given by the Commission): 1. Acharya Dharamendra [...]

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:22:31 +0000

New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) In its Action Taken Report (ATR) submitted in parliament Tuesday along with the Liberhan Commission report on the 1992 demolition of the Babri Masjid, the government stated that political leaders holding office should not simultaneously hold positions of responsibility in religious organisations. The authorities’ response was to the recommendation of former [...]

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:54:27 +0000

New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) Attacking the government over “leakage” of the Liberhan Commission report, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday demanded that responsibility should be fixed for the “lapse” and a joint parliamentary panel should probe into it. Party president Rajnath Singh, speaking to reporters outside parliament, said: “The home minister should take moral [...]

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:18:19 +0000

New Delhi, Nov.24 (ANI): The United Progressive Alliance government finally tabled the much-awaited Librehan Commission Report on the Babri mosque demolition after the Opposition staged an uproar over its leakage to the media before its tabling in Parliament. Union Home Minister P .Chidambaram presented the Librehan Report along with a 13-page Action Taken Report (ATR) [...]

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:12:11 +0000

New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) Kalyan Singh, who was the Uttar Pradesh chief minister when the Babri mosque was razed, said he suspected a “political conspiracy” behind the Liberhan Commission of Inquiry that has severely indicted leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the demolition. Kalyan Singh, who later quit the BJP and recently [...]

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:50:33 +0000

New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) The indictment of senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders by the Liberhan Commission should be a clear warning for the party to stop practising communal politics, Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily said Tuesday. He also said that senior leaders named in the report - as those who played a role [...]

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:25:27 +0000

Chandigarh, Nov 24 (IANS) Justice M.S. Liberhan Tuesday remained composed and asked the media to read his report on the 1992 Babri mosque demolition before asking questions even as the controversial document was tabled by the government in parliament. “All questions have been answered in the report. You should go and read the report and come [...]

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:56:59 +0000

New Delhi, Nov.24 (ANI): Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh on Tuesday admitted to have instructed the District Magistrate not to shoot as it could have led to multiple casualties of Kar Sewaks. “Had I directed to shoot, it would have led to thousands of deaths,”said Kalyan Singh on a private channel. “There were [...]

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:45:33 +0000

New Delhi, Nov.24 (ANI): The United Progressive Alliance government finally presented the much-awaited Librehan Commission report over the Babri mosque demolition after the Opposition stage uproar on Monday over the leakage of repot to media before tabling it in Parliament as per the propriety. Union Home Minister presented the Librehan report along with the 13-page [...]

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:40:22 +0000

New Delhi, Nov.24 (ANI): Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), the mother organization of Bharatiya Janata Party, on Tuesday owned the Ayodhya movement but refused to apologise about what happened in Ayodhya in 1992 which led to demolition of the Babri mosque. “We fully own up the movement. We mobilize people. People should respect the sentiment [...]

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:25:16 +0000

New Delhi, Nov. 24 (ANI): The Government will present the Liberhan Commission report related to Babri mosque demolition at 12.00 (afternoon) on Tuesday in the Lok Sabha, a decision in this regard has reportedly been taken during the Cabinet meet called on to discuss the tabling of the report and Action Taken Report (ATR). [...]

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:20:46 +0000

New Delhi, Nov. 23 (ANI): The Government will presentthe Liberhan Commission report related to Babri mosque demolition at 12.00 (afternoon) on Tuesday in the Lok Sabha, a decision in this regard has reportedly been taken during the Cabinet meet called on to discuss the tabling of the report and Action Taken Report (ATR). The [...]

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:48:09 +0000

New Delhi, Nov.24 (ANI): The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government, which is faced with the heat of the Opposition over leakage of Liberhan Commission report related to Babri mosque demolition, may table the report on Tuesday in the Lok Sabha. The Parliament on Monday witnessed uproar from the Opposition on the alleged leakage of [...]

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:35:16 +0000

New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) The ghost of the razed Babri mosque came to haunt India Monday as the opposition paralysed parliament over the leakage of the Liberhan Commission of Inquiry report into the 1992 demolition, reportedly indicting top Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders including Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L.K. Advani. Faced with an incensed [...]