The Congress today said the government will take appropriate action on the report of Liberhan Commission which probed the 1992 demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. "The Commission has submitted its report. The government will now study the report and take appropriate action," party spokesman Manish Tewari told PTI.
According to a source in the commission who has been privy to hundreds of hearings there were no direct evidence produced against Advani during the entire 17 years of tenure of the commission.
The Liberhan Commission has recommended to the government to examine the desirability of establishing a Criminal Justice Commission.
The term of the Liberhan Commission of inquiry has been extended by three months upto June 30, 2006.
The panel headed by Justice M S Liberhan was constituted on December 16, 1992, by an order of the Home Ministry and was expected to submit its report within three months. It has already taken over 15 years and incurred an expenditure of more than Rs seven crore so far.
Tells the Liberhan Commission that the charge against Vajpayee, Advani and Joshi of being part of a conspiracy to demolish the Babri Masjid was made out of anger.
Centre's counsel Lala Ram Gupta told the Liberhan Commission that the issue is whether a temple existed on the disputed site before the construction of the Babri Mosque.
The central government said, "It was an act of national shame, what was demolished was not merely an ancient structure but the faith of the minorities in the sense of justice and fair play of the majority.
'An amicable settlement of the Ram Janambhoomi would infuse new blood into national life and Bharat would emerge as a proud and strong nation,' the RSS said in a written submission before the Liberhan commission
Home Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday said chargesheets against those connected with the demolition of the disputed structure at Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, would be re-visited and the sources of huge funds for the movement would be probed."We will have to examine whether chargesheets are complete, whether to re-visit them," he said in the Rajya Sabha while replying to a two-day debate on the findings of the Liberhan Commission on the demolition of the Babri Masjid.
The cassette showed Vajpayee saying that he was not aware what was going to happen the next day, December 6, 1992.
Former UP CM Kalyan Singh on Thursday told the Liberhan Commission that he was not involved in the mobilisation of kar sevaks for the Babri masjid demolition on Dec 6, 1992
"I don't call it a debate. I call it an introspection," said Gurudas Dasgupta, Member of Parliament of the Communist party of India from West Bengal while kick starting the rarest of the rare debate in Lok Sabha on Monday -- on perhaps the most politically sensitive issue of independent India.
'The Babri Masjid demolition was a pre-planned conspiracy.' 'It did not happen on the spur of the moment.'
The Liberhan Commission gives its report 17 years later, the NHAI routinely delays contract... the list goes on
The move bears significance in the wake of November 9 judgement of the Supreme Court which allowed construction of a Ram Temple in the disputed site in Ayodha.
'He was a nobody then.' 'And whatever little his contribution was there, it was restricted to Gujarat.'
Commissions of inquiry are potentially powerful instruments to fix responsibility on public functionaries, but everything possible has been done to blunt this instrument, says Dr Madhav Godbole, retired Union home secretary.
What makes Dhankar so outspoken? Could it because as governor he will be in the driver's seat if the Trinamool Congress performs below par in the elections next year? Shikha Shalini reports.
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