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Advani describes his feelings on court judgement as `mixed`
New Delhi, Sept 19: Asking HRD minister not to quit, Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani today described his feelings on the Rae Bareli court judgement exonerating him as `mixed` and said it could have been one of `elation` had the remaining seven accused also been freed.
New Delhi, Sept 19: Asking HRD minister not to quit, Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani today described his feelings on the Rae Bareli court judgement exonerating him as "mixed" and said it could have been one of "elation" had the remaining seven accused also been freed.
"It certainly gives me relief. It would have been a feeling of elation if all my colleagues had also been exonerted, which has not happened," Advani told reporters at his residence while reacting to the court decision to frame charges against the remaining accused.
He said that there was nothing before him on the basis of which he could analyse why this had happened.
"Earlier, there was a case of conspiracy in which some distinction could have been made between a or b (accused). But now the charges essentially are of making inciting speeches provoking the demolition (of the Babri Masjid)," he said.
Stating that he had spoken to Joshi personally, Advani said he had told the HRD minister to accept the party's view that there was no need to quit. "Now the lawyers will definitely study the order and advise us on the future course of action".
The DPM accused the opposition of making "a systematic attempt to malign me over the Ayodhya movement as they termed the movement as communal which undermined secularism".
Bureau Report Stating that he had spoken to Joshi personally, Advani said he had told the HRD minister to accept the party's view that there was no need to quit. "Now the lawyers will definitely study the order and advise us on the future course of action".
The DPM accused the opposition of making "a systematic attempt to malign me over the Ayodhya movement as they termed the movement as communal which undermined secularism".
Bureau Report
He said that there was nothing before him on the basis of which he could analyse why this had happened.
"Earlier, there was a case of conspiracy in which some distinction could have been made between a or b (accused). But now the charges essentially are of making inciting speeches provoking the demolition (of the Babri Masjid)," he said.
Stating that he had spoken to Joshi personally, Advani said he had told the HRD minister to accept the party's view that there was no need to quit. "Now the lawyers will definitely study the order and advise us on the future course of action".
The DPM accused the opposition of making "a systematic attempt to malign me over the Ayodhya movement as they termed the movement as communal which undermined secularism".
Bureau Report Stating that he had spoken to Joshi personally, Advani said he had told the HRD minister to accept the party's view that there was no need to quit. "Now the lawyers will definitely study the order and advise us on the future course of action".
The DPM accused the opposition of making "a systematic attempt to malign me over the Ayodhya movement as they termed the movement as communal which undermined secularism".
Bureau Report