Indian BJP top leaders indicted for 1992 Babri mosque demolition
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    NEW DELHI, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- Seventeen years and many tribulations later, an Indian Parliament report on the 1992 Babri Masjid mosque demolition has indicted top Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Atal Bihari Vajpayee, L.K. Advani and top functionaries of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), said official sources Tuesday.

    The Liberhan report has indicted 68 persons in all and found them culpable for communal discord, said the sources.

    The report said that the persons indicted where privy to the Babri conspiracy.

    However, with the government, in its action taken report, not naming anybody against punitive action needs to be taken, it remains to be seen what the findings of the report are meant to achieve.

    More importantly, Atal Bihari Vajpayee being indicted, without never ever being questioned, makes the government vulnerable to further attacks by the BJP over the report.

    The Commission came down heavily on mixing politics and religion and has recommended a law providing for exemplary punishment for such misuse to acquire political power.

    The voluminous report of the Liberhan Commission, which was submitted in June, was tabled in both Houses of Parliament by Home Minister P. Chidambaram.

    The 13-page action taken report (ATR) said the government accepted the recommendation and is contemplating enactment of the Communal Violence Bill to prevent and control riots and setting up special courts to deal with them.

    The ATR makes no reference to the indictment of top BJP leaders, including Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Kalyan Singh and leaders of various Sangh Parivar outfits made in the report.

    The Liberhan Commission was constituted 10 days after the demolition of the disputed structure in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992.

    The Commission said the Constitutional scheme to separate religion from politics was intended to insulate issues of governance from those of theology.

    The Commission said "while it may be useful and indeed desirable to import certain aspects of ethics and morality into the political arena, the use of religion, caste or regionalism is a regressive and dangerous trend capable of alienating people and dividing them into small sections."

    Justice Liberhan said the events of December 6, 1992 and the many subsequent events have already shown to the nation the danger and the disruptive potential of allowing the inter-mixing of religion and politics.

Editor: Lin Zhi
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