Hyderabad, June 21: Terming as 'absurd and totally baseless' former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh's charges against BJP leadership on Babri mosque demolition, the saffron party today said such 'political attempts' to defame it would fail. Reacting sharply to Singh's allegation that the mosque was demolished under direction of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, L K Advani and Murali Manohar Joshi, party president M Venkaiah Naidu said the outburst was a 'political after-thought coming from a new convert to pseudo-secularism'.

"Does it mean that it has taken 11 long years for Kalyan Singh to understand that he was pressurised. This is nothing but an after-thought prompted by the present political course he has chalked out for himself," Naidu told reporters here today. Singh had yesterday blamed the top BJP leadership for Masjid demolition and spoke of how he was made a scapegoat and betrayed by top BJP leaders who, he alleged, were part of a conspiracy to demolish the Masjid.

Rebuffing the charge, the BJP president pointed out that his party had described the demolition as 'most unfortunate and unintended' and it was in everybody's knowledge that the situation at that point of time was uncontrollable. Without naming anybody, Naidu said some political forces were making repeated attempts to influence public opinion through distortions.

Bureau Report