No question for RSS to regret for Babri demolition: Bhagwat

Chandigarh, Dec 5 (PTI) Seventeen years after the Babri
Masjid was pulled down, Rashtriya Seva Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan
Bhagwat Saturday said there was no question for the Sangh to
regret for what had happened and maintained that their full
support to the "Ram temple movement" will continue.

Addressing a meet-the-press programme here, Bhagwat said
the pulling down of the structure was not any conspiracy, but
a spontaneous reaction from the Kar Sewaks "whose sentiments
and emotions had been hurt".
"Whatever happened was connected with the movement for
the construction of the Ram temple. The sentiments of the Kar
Sewaks were hurt that also included many Muslims. So the
question for the RSS to regret does not arise," he said.
Without naming any one he said, "afsos jinko karna
chahiye woh karein" (those who ought to regret, should do
so).
When asked to name any prominent Muslim leader who
participated in the "Kar Sewa" on December 6, the day when the
Mosque was brought down, Bhagwat said, "there were many
Muslims. Prominent names that I can remember include (senior
Bharatiya Janata Party leader) Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and another
leader from Mumbai, Muzaffar Hussain".
He stressed that the Sangh's full support to the Ram
temple movement, which was being run by Sant Mahatama
religious leaders), will continue as it had extended its
support in the past. "The Sangh works as per their direction,"
he added. More PTI SUN
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