BJP, Cong spar over Liberhan report

New Delhi, Nov 23 (PTI) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and
Congress party Monday clashed over the findings of the
Liberhan Commission, which is believed to have indicted senior
BJP leaders Atal Bihari Vajpayee, L K Advani and M M Joshi,
among others, for the demolition of the Babri Masjid on
December 6, 1992.
Justice M S Liberhan, who submitted his findings to the
government on June 30, this year after an inquiry lasting
nearly 17 years, has called the BJP leaders "pseudo-moderates"
and stated that the entire build-up to the demolition was
meticulously planned, according to a newspaper report.
The volumnous report, expected to be tabled in Indian
Parliament along with the Action Taken Report during the
ongoing winter session, is believed to have refrained from
coming down heavily on the then Indian government headed by P
V Narasimha Rao, saying that the then state governor did not
do much and also did not seek the Government's intervention.
Accusing the Congress party government of "selectively
leaking" the report to one newspaper, BJP spokesman Rajiv
Pratap Rudy said this has been done to "divert attention from
core issues" like price rise and corruption.
"There is no authenticity of the report. Why government
is shying away from tabling the Liberhan report in
Parliament?" he asked and said that the move was aimed at
creating "turmoil in Parliament and across the nation."
M M Joshi said, "This is a leakage and such leakages are,
I think, with a political motive. So the best thing is that
the government should place the entire report (in Parliament)
and what action they want to take on the report."
Congress party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said that for
nearly two decades, the nation as a whole generally knew what
had happened and how senior functionaries of a political party
watched people causing destruction and mayhem and then shed
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