New Delhi, Feb 13: Congress today stepped up attack on Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee charging him with "colluding with VHP in subverting law of the land" and alleged that the government`s application in the Supreme Court in the matter of Ayodhya was prompted by "bad intentions". "Strategy of BJP and its affiliates like the VHP and RSS have always been so designed as to advance their core communal agenda by bringing Ayodhya issue in installments. Vajpayee government is also party to the same strategy", party spokesman S Jaipal Reddy told reporters. Alleging that Atal Bihari Vajpayee was "colluding" with VHP in subverting law of the land, he said that though whatever is happening between the two sides was being projected as a matter of negotiations, the fact of the matter was that "both the NDA government and VHP have been coordinating their efforts". "Pravin Togadia has been pulled up not because he was untruthful but because he was untimely in his utterances", he said adding that the goal of the BJP and VHP was the same but their tactical efforts may differ. Referring to the government`s application on the vacation of apex court`s order banning any kind of religious activity in the 77 acres of land in Ayodhya acquired by the government after the demolition of the disputed structure in 1992, he said this was intended to make available the land to the VHP.
"This application itself was prompted by bad intentions. BJP is also interested in facilitating the process of the entire piece of land being made available to the VHP", he said.

Bureau Report