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Malegaon:
He was facing the BJP onslaught because he tried to contain the
threat to India by the Saffron terrorists. This is oft-repeated
assertion by none other than Union Home Minister P Chidambaram.
And how he succumbed to BJP's tirade, it can easily be judged by looking at what's happening to
him and the UPA government in the last two years.
Taking the debate on the issue even
further,
Kuldip Nayar - one of the senior most political commentators in
India, in his recent article has observed that the UPA
government didn't want to take on the BJP leaders facing criminal
charges.
"Were the guilty to be punished, the loss of faith can be restored
to a large extent. But the CBI's report may well be only a storm
in a tea cup. The Manmohan Singh government has neither the will
nor the strength to take on the BJP which may get away with the
murder of India's secularism", Nayar, noted journalist and
syndicated columnist, wrote in his article published by
The Daily Star after the CBI
once again linked top BJP leaders in the conspiracy of Babri Masjid demolition.
"The Babri Masjid's demolition was not a hush-hush job. It was
shown live on television networks across the country with hoary
details of vandalism instigated by the Hindu crowd; the ladders
and ropes used to bring down the masjid's domes and the joy of BJP
leaders over the removal of the last brick are still etched in the
memory of people. Uma Bharti jumped into the laps of Joshi,
celebrating the destruction of the mosque which had become over
the years a structure that stood as a testimony to the country's
pluralistic philosophy", he wrote.
"The BJP leaders' defence is not on the demolition of the masjid
but on the timing of the CBI report. The agency may be playing
politics at the instance of some ruling party members. Yet, how
does this lessen the crime of those who demolished the mosque or
those who enthusiastically watched the spectacle? Whether the
conspiracy of Advani and seven of his party colleagues is proved
in a law court or not -- the Liberhan Commission said something
like that in its report three years ago -- is not what matters at
present", Nayar wrote.
"The issue today is that who are the culprits? The biggest relief
is that those whose hands are soiled have not got away with it.
The real worry of the nation has been that the whole matter would
be effaced because of the Herculean efforts by the BJP and its
ally, the Shiv Sena", Nayar wrote.
Expressing fear that Gujarat Chief
Minister may also escape justice, Nayar wrote, "After all, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi,
who was behind the happenings in the state in 2002, may also be
getting away with all that he did. The Supreme Court appointed
Special Investigation Team (SIT) has exonerated him completely."
"What made the SIT give Modi a clean chit may come out one day as the complicity of Advani
and other BJP leaders has in the case of the Babri masjid
demolition. It would be too late by then, but what one can do when
political considerations have scrambled the entire system", he
wrote.
Stating that amicus curie Raju Ramachandran strongly
disagreed with a key conclusion of the SIT that IPs officer Sanjiv
Bhatt was not present at a late-night meeting of top Gujarat cops
held at the chief minister's residence in the wake of the February
27, 2002 Godhara carnage, Nayar wrote, "It has been Bhatt's claim -- made in an
affidavit before the apex court and in statements to the SIT and
the amicus -- that he was present at the meeting where Modi said
Hindus must be allowed to carry out retaliatory violence against
Muslims."
"It is true that Ramachandran did not investigate and relied on the
documents prepared by the SIT. But this is the job which was
entrusted to him by the Supreme Court. So how can it be argued
that the amicus curie's statement does not have any locus standi?",
he wondered.
"The BJP should realise that the two blemishes, one about the
demolition of the Babri masjid and the other about the carnage in
Gujarat, will not go away until action against the culprits is
taken. Quotas will not give confidence to Muslims but what they
want to be assured of is that they will get justice. A pluralistic
society can do this at least to prove its credentials", Nayar
wrote.
The complete article
an be found here:
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=233736
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