Mail Today, 6 October 2010
Editorial
Advani’s duplicity on Mandir
FROM his Rath yatra which unleashed mob frenzy across the country, to his controversial statements in Karachi praising Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) leader Lal Krishna Advani has often resorted to double- speak to gain political dividends.
His statement that the judgment of the Allahabad High Court on the Ayodhya dispute vindicates his Rath Yatra is both fallacious and dangerous. Nowhere in the entire judgment do any of the judges state anything in support of the Yatra, or even the politicisation of the Ram Janmabhoomi issue.
Mr Advani’s stand is characteristic of the Sangh Parivar’s selective respect for the law.
Time and again, the Parivar, including BJP leaders like Mr Advani have maintained that Lord Ram is above any court and the mandir will be built irrespective of the verdict.
Mr Advani’s sudden respect for the judiciary and the statement that he has always favoured “ legislation, judicial verdict and amicable settlement” as means for resolving the dispute is simply not true as he has been indicted by the Liberhan Commission for instigating the demolition of the Babri Masjid and the communal strife that followed.
It is unfortunate that the senior- most leader of India’s main opposition party continues to cynically use religion for political benefits instead of focusing on the numerous problems that confront the country.
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