The Congress demolished the Babri Masjid

Author: A Sohail Siddiqui, Chief Editor, Hamara Qadam
Publication: BJP Today
Date: April 16-30, 2001
 
The Muslim leadership at the time of Shah Bano controversy was basking in the glorious victory it scored in getting the Supreme Court verdict nullified by the Parliament. Politically, it was a major victory for Muslim clerics. This all led to an atmosphere where the majority community in this country felt defeated. It was then that Shri Rajiv Gandhi entered into a secret pact with the world renowned personality Maulana Ali Miyan Naqvi. The deal with Maulana was to hand over Ram Janmabhoomi to the Hindus in order to pacify their hurt feelings. Thus within a week of decision of passing of Muslim Personal Law Bill thrown by Rajiv and company, the gates of Ram Mandir were thrown open.

For my popular newspaper, Urdu weekly "Hamara Qadam" I interviewed the former Union Minister Arif Mohammad Khan in July, 1992 in which Mr Khan disclosed the said secret pact and alleged that the doors of Ram Mandir at Ayodhya were thrown open with the consent of Maulana Ali Miyan. However the Rajiv card failed miserably. In came Chandrashekhar with Rajiv's support. He should be credited to be the one two revived the talks between Muslim leadership and V.H.P. saints.

Now from here begins the second phase of Muslim leaders involvement in the conspirary to demolish Babri Masjid with Shri P V Narsimha Rao at the helm of affairs. The writer has sufficient evidence of the support of several Muslim leaders to the plan to demolish the Babri Masjid and put the blame on the BJP. Thus kill two birds with one stone- paint BJP as the villain, secondly to do away with the Babri genie which had by then overgrown its size.

This writer sometime in August 1992 got the wind of such a plan being hatched by Congressmen. A senior journalist (now a MP) and a friend of this writer told him that in order to defeat the BJP at their game the Congress intends to send 100 odd people as kar sevaks dressed in nickers to demolish the Babri Masjid. In August 1992 I carried a screaming banner story in my tabloid "Hamara Qadam" - that Javed Habib and Naib Shahi Imam have bartered the Muslim interests to Narasimha Rao. No one contradicted the story. I had three weeks before 6th December, 1992 reported (in Hamara Qadam) a cover story with a screaming banner "Babri Masjid Nahi Bachegi". A.N.I. released the news carried by Observer of Business & Politics'. One week before the demolition a video camera person approached me with an offer that for five lakhs he could supply me the second copy of the video film which he has been asked to prepare by the Home Ministry on 6th December, 1992 of the event of demolition.
 

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