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Top Congress committee discusses Ayodhya, CWG
and Kashmir
Tuesday, October 05, 2010 05:56:48 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
The Congress Steering Committee, chaired by party president Sonia
Gandhi, met here Tuesday and discussed the Ayodhya verdict and the
successful inauguration of the Commonwealth Games, party sources
said.
The meeting also discussed the situation in conflict-ridden
Kashmir, the source added.
The steering committee, as the policy-making working committee has
been rechristened after Sonia Gandhi's re-election as the party
chief Sep 3, was held at the party headquarters. It was attended
by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Finance Minister Pranab
Mukherjee, Home Minister P. Chidambaram and other leaders.
Party sources said Chidambaram gave details on the three major
issues to the top party panel.
The meeting is understood to have expressed its satisfaction at
the "mature reaction" by the nation to the Ayodhya verdict.
Some leaders are understood to have epressed the view to "wait and
watch" the situation for three months, during which period the
Allahabad High Court has asked for a status quo to be maintained
at the disputed land in Ayodhya.
Regarding the Commonwealth Games, the meeting expressed
satisfaction that the ceremonial inauguration went off well and
earned praises of the international community, sources said. This,
they felt, helped to erase complaints of delays and
irregularities.
The steps to defuse the volatile situation in Kashmir also came
for discussion, sources said. As per the eight-point peace formula
announced by the union government recently, a team of
interlocutors is to be appointed soon to talk to the people of
Kashmir, especially the separatist leaders.
A three-member bench of the Allahabad High Court Sep 30 ruled that
the disputed land in Ayodhya be divided equally among the three
litigants - the Sunni Central Wakf Board, the Ram temple, and the
Nirmohi Akhara, a Hindu sect.
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