Ayodhya movement was akin to freedom struggle: BJP

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>[bJP News]: Ayodhya movement was akin to freedom struggle: BJP

>Mon, 4 Dec 2000 17:25:22 -0500

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>Title: Ayodhya movement was akin to freedom struggle: BJP

>Author: Neena Vyas

>Publication: The Hindu

>Dec. 5, 2000

>

> NEW DELHI, DEC 4. The ``people's movement'' led by Mr. L.K. Advani, now

>Union

> Home Minister, for building a Ram temple at Ayodhya which led to the

>destruction of the

> Babri Masjid was today compared by the Bharatiya Janata Party to the

>``freedom movement

> led by Mahatma Gandhi and other leaders like Lokmanya Tilak and Subhas

>Chandra Bose.''

> It was therefore completely wrong on the part of the Congress to demand

>his resignation

> for being an accused in the demolition case, said the BJP spokesperson,

>Mr. Vijay Kumar

> Malhotra. He was reacting to the Opposition demands in the Lok sabha

>today. Mr. Malhotra

> likened the charge against Mr. Advani to the thousands of cases

>instituted by the police

> during the British rule against leaders of the freedom movement.

>

> In any case, the demolition of the ``disputed structure'' took place in

>1992 and the

> chargesheet was finalised in 1997. Then why raise the matter today, when

>it was not even

> the anniversary of the incident, he asked. Was the Congress sleeping all

>these years?

>

> The BJP was saying earlier the Ayodhya case was not like the corruption

>cases for which

> Ministers should resign on moral grounds even before they were proved

>guilty and that the

> saying that the Ayodhya agitation was a political protest. But today, Mr.

>Malhotra made a

> distinction between a ``political movement'' and a ``people's movement''

>without clarifying

> what the differences were.

>

> However, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr Rajnath Singh, stated

>publicly in Lucknow

> yesterday that the Ram temple agitation was ``not a political agitation''

>but ``cultural and

> national movement.''

>

> Asked why the Prime Minister had sought the resignation of the former

>Minister of State

> for Defence, Mr. Harin Pathak, who the BJP had claimed was ``politically

>chargesheeted for

> murder,'' Mr. Malhotra said some in the party felt that he had been

>``wrongly made to

> resign.'' And as for Mr. Advani, ``there was simply no question of his

>resignation on the

> Ayodhya chargesheet.''

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