Answering a question on the promise of Narasimha Rao’s government to rebuild the Babri Mosque, party spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi said the party “did not want the remedy to be worse than the disease”. Didn’t the Congress know this while committing itself to rebuild the mosque? Is it not the duty of a government not to let the remedy be worse than the disease?
Further he states that a court verdict or comprehensive settlement accepted by all stake-holders is the only possible solutions to the Ayodhya dispute. Shouldn’t the Congress consider itself a stakeholder in the safety of life of the biggest minority of the country whose votes it has been milking for decades? What has the Congress contributed towards “the comprehensive settlement” of the dispute?
Lately, Syed Shahabuddin of Babri Masjid Action Committee has asked the central government to make clear their stand in the event of the court verdict going in favour of Muslims and to give categorical assurance that the verdict will be implemented. Has the UPA government replied to him? Has the UPA any option other than throwing the community to wolves?
Dr Mookhi Amir Ali
Santacruz West,Mumbai