Your memory becomes poor as you grow older, but if you forget only certain things specially the inconvenient ones ..... this is what happens every 6th Dec. in India. Various people remember the events around Babari structure selectively, to suit their point of view. Essentially we have neither learned anything since those sad days nor are we willing to let go and move on. Anyone who was around then as I was remembers there were and still are two camps. Those who want a temple structure on the site and those who want it to function as a mosque. It was a highly polarized time and hardly anyone was a fence sitter. 17 years hence a report tries to exonerate some actors and implicate some non actors thus making a mockery of the whole process. I personally remember many die hard congressmen supporting the Ram Janam Boomi movement although officially they were supposed to make appropriate noises against it. The prime minister of the day did not think it advisable to lift a finger before the structure was leveled. Today he is with his maker and can't be questioned any more but his party colleauges who were in the government with him are posing as innocent lambs . They played politics with the issue then as they are doing it again by uncorking the toothless report.
The other side rode this issue to power , eventually unseating the "NO TEMPLE " camp. Once they were in they forgot about it in quick time. Once in power some were sorry about it , some wanted to cap it ....... finally they decided to do nothing! Suddenly today when the report came out accusing them of being the wolf they first tried to side step and then went on offensive .
There are no winners in this controvercy only losers starting with people of India who are being hoodwinked again and again on non issues. If a wrong was done culprit is the whole society not one or two individuals . The locks were opened to Checkmate mandal politics by congress, bJP hijacked the issue and only then congress formed an opinion against it. In all this no body should forget the obduracy of the muslim leadership. They took the position that a foreign tyrant babar is more important and no matter if old Ram temple was razed by him , once a masjid always a masjid. Ram in their opinion is only a myth. Talk about Selective amnesia !
What solution is possible with these positions??? How many Indians will agree to this interpretation of Indian culture?
Liberhan report is just a selective report; truth is known to everyone that in those days every one was a supporter of Ram temple . Some were overt , some covert Starting from then Prime minister down to a school kid. As they said in those days " bacha bacha Ram Ka".
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