New Delhi, Oct 16: A Muslim organisation associated with the Babri Masjid issue today requested President A P J Abdul Kalam to ban organisations like VHP and arrest its leaders for making communal and provocative speeches. In a letter to the president, chief of all India Babri Musjid re-building committee Mohammed Younus Siddiqui said organisations like VHP, Bajrang Dal and Shiv Sena should be banned by the Centre. The organistions also requested president to direct the Centre to arrest leaders of these groups including Praveen Togadia, Ashok Singhal, Vishnuhari Dalmiya and Giriraj Kishore for making communal and provocative statements and speeches thus hurting the feeling of minority community.

The organisation also said that the proposed VHP march tomorrow was in violation of court order which had banned any assembly of people at the disputed site of Babri Masjid-Ram Janambhoomi.


The letter also requested for rebuilding of the mosque which could help the country in regaining its lost secular character due to its demolition in 1992. Bureau Report