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Kalyan equally responsible for demolition, asserts VHP
New Delhi, June 20: Holding former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh `equally responsible` for the demolition of the disputed structure at Ayodhya, the VHP today said it did not consider the act a `sin` as the structure was a `victory memorial` for Babur and not a mosque.
New Delhi, June 20: Holding former Uttar Pradesh
Chief Minister Kalyan Singh "equally responsible" for the
demolition of the disputed structure at Ayodhya, the VHP today
said it did not consider the act a "sin" as the structure was
a "victory memorial" for Babur and not a mosque.
"Singh is equally responsible for the demolition. After
coming out of the meeting of BJP and Sangh leaders before
December six, 1992, he told me that the structure should be
demolished when he is in power but no such decision was taken
(at the meeting)," VHP senior vice-president Acharya Giriraj
Kishore told a news agency over phone from Bhopal.
He was responding to Singh's allegations that the
structure was demolished on the directions of senior BJP and
Sangh Parivar leaders including Atal Bihari Vajpayee and
Kishore.
The VHP leader, however, asserted that the outfit did not consider the demolition as a "sin."
"It was a functional temple where Puja was permitted by the court. If at all, it was a so-called mosque built in memory of an invader. It was a victory memorial," he said.
The VHP leader, however, asserted that the outfit did not consider the demolition as a "sin."
"It was a functional temple where Puja was permitted by the court. If at all, it was a so-called mosque built in memory of an invader. It was a victory memorial," he said.
The demolition of the structure, Kishore said, had
"removed from the heart of mother India a black spot, which
had been lying for 450 years."
Bureau Report