The Congress has alleged that a CD recently presented to the Liberhan Commission 'established beyond doubt' that the former prime minister had 'full knowledge' of the Dec 6, 1992 incident.
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.
The term of the Commission, set up almost soon after the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition, has now been extended till December 31
The Commission, whose extended term is expiring on June 31, closed the proceedings with conclusion of the deposition of its key witness Kalyan Singh during whose tenure as chief minister the medieval monument was razed on December 6, 1992.
The Liberhan Commission said it was granting time to inspect its records because there was no objection from the counsel of other parties.
'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
Centre's counsel Lala Ram Gupta told the Liberhan Commission that there is no evidence to suggest a conspiracy.
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.
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.
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.
Ayodhya demolition a well-planned conspiracy: Centre
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.
It told the Liberhan Commission that the UP government had refused to go along with its decision favouring deployment of paramilitary forces and chalking out a security plan for protection of the disputed structure.
The cassette showed Vajpayee saying that he was not aware what was going to happen the next day, December 6, 1992.
It accused the then chief minister Kalyan Singh of not deploying sufficient forces to protect the Babri masjid.
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
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.
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.
The Liberhan Commission gives its report 17 years later, the NHAI routinely delays contract... the list goes on
'He was a nobody then.' 'And whatever little his contribution was there, it was restricted to Gujarat.'
'The Babri Masjid demolition was a pre-planned conspiracy.' 'It did not happen on the spur of the moment.'
"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.
