Dr. Manmohan Singh’s dig at the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate L.K. Advani for the Babri Masjid demolition smacks of political stunt. Dr. Singh seems to have conveniently forgotten that his own Congress party was at the helm of affairs at the centre with the then Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao literally doing nothing to avert the catastrophe. During its five-year tenure, the Congress-led UPA neither tracked the perpetrators of post-Godhra carnage nor did it have the gumption to open the Sri Krishna Commission report on the 1993 Mumbai riots. While the degree of communalism pursued by the BJP and the Congress varied, for an average Indian Muslim, it was the case of choosing the lesser evil. It is time the Indian electorate, irrespective of caste, creed and religion looked towards a truly secular political alternative to protect the nation’s unity and integrity.
Syed Sultan Mohiddin
Kadapa, A.P.