Advani played a prominent role in mobilization of karsevaks and demolition of Babri masjid. His 1990 Rathyatra left behind a trail of bloody riots and polarized independent India on communal lines as never before.
Babri masjid was demolished on Dec 6, 1992 when the state BJP government failed to keep up its promises to Supreme Court and National Integration council on the safety of the structure. Advani was present on the dias facing the mosque and hate speeches made by Sangh/BJP leaders from the same stage were said to have instigated the mobs.
The demolition in turn was followed by nationwide riots doing irreparable harm to social cohesion and communal harmony. India is still facing the consequences of the mandir-masjid hate politics. It took 13 years for Advani to regret the Babri demolition and that too during his visit to Pak in 2005. He found a secular champion in Jinnah and termed Dec 6, 1992 as the saddest day of his life. The whole effort appeared as an attempt to change his hardliner image in order to improve his acceptability for PM post.
Noted Writer and columnist Khuswant Singh:
“Advani claims that breaking the mosque was not on his agenda and he actually sent Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharati from the dais to plead with the breakers to desist. If that is so, why were the two seen embracing each other and rejoicing when the nefarious task was completed? We don’t have to wait for the verdict of the Liberhan Commission to tell us what happened: we saw it with our own eyes. The destroyers were Shiv Sainiks and members of the RSS and they boasted about what they had done. Advani records the jubilation that followed at the site and along his triumphal return to Delhi.”
Dec 8, 1992: Advani at his residence in New Delhi soon after the arrest
Moments of Jubilation?Dec 10, 1992: Advani and Uma Bharati produced before the magistrate at Faizabad
Change of Heart?: Advani at Jinnah Mausoleum (2005)During the same visit to Pak he termed Dec 6,1992 as the saddest day of my life!
well he made the saddest day comment just after the demolition of the Babri structure itself
ReplyDeleteCan you a show a proof for that other than what he wrote in his autobiography? I don't think he felt sorry about it any time. Can you explain Sangh parivar's hyper reaction to his recent comments( made in Pak in 2005)on 'saddest day'? Togadia used the 'traitor' for his disownment act.
ReplyDeleteGood job bhaiyo. Hamara neta kaisa ho ? Manmohan singh jaisa ho. Advani doesnt deserves the post of pm. If he gets the chair of pm, he'll turn the whole country into gujrat. He has done nothing creative in his life. With his destructive mentality it is impossible for him to build a good nation.
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