VHP will send team of 'archeologists' to site in Ayodhya; and a comment - The Times of India

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The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), an allied organisation
of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has once again
decided to come to the forefront in view of the assembly
elections in Uttar Pradesh and cash in on the Ram
Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid issue.

Under the strategy, the VHP has decided to send a team of
'archaeologists' on September 13 to Ayodhya. Since the
demolition, the pro-VHP archaeologists have been of the
opinion that there existed a temple before the
construction of the disputed shrine.

According to sources, the 'VHP archaeologists' will
remain in Ayodhya on September 1415 coinciding with the
visit of a group of advocates and their clients to the
spot. The Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court had
granted permission to the parties concerned to have a
look at the 'archaeological evidences' recovered after
the demolition of the disputed shrine in 1992. Since
then these were being kept under the tight security and
no one was allowed to have a look at it. The order was
issued on August 22, on an application moved by one
Dharam Das before the court.

The 'VHP archaeologists' had already announced that the
recovered evidences belonged to 12th century AD and
claimed that there was a magnificent stone temple with
golden 'kalash' on the 'shikhar,' 400 years prior to the
construction of the disputed shrine.

Ramshankar Agnihotri, a veteran Journalist and VHP's
media manager, 'said here on Sunday that the inscription
on them was composed in high flown Sanskrit verse, except
for a very mall portion in prose, and was engraved in
chaste Nagari script of the eleventh-twelfth century AD.

According to Mr Agnihotri, it was evidently put on the
wall of the temple and added that this beautiful temple
of Vishnu-Hari was built with stone and had a golden
spire. He said that these archaeologists would also come
to Lucknow on September 16 and see the scaled documents
kept under tight security by the court order.

He said that K.V. Raman of Madras university, Prakash
Charan Prasad of Patna university, T.P. Verma of BHU
university, Ajai Mishra of Nagpur university, Swaraj
Prakash Gupta, B.R. G,over and retired justice D.B.
Saigal would represent the VHP side in Ayodhya from
September 14 to 15.

Mr S.P. Gupta is an eminent archaeologist and had claimed
earlier that there was a temple in at the disputed place
in Ayodhya.

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Comment:

Kindly notice how archeologists are mentioned in quotes. In October 92,
the historians representing the All India Babri Masjid Committee were
labelled by the same publication as 'netural' and 'independent'.

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