The role of Advani or Uma Bharti or Murli Manohar Joshi or Singhal brothers et al are fairly wellknown. Though with time, memory fades.
What's far less known is this speech of Vajpayee. And, hardly acknowledged is the role of the Supreme Court. It allowed the VHP to go ahead with the Kar Seva, when the whole world knew, never mind the undertaking(s) given, what'd be the outcome. An observer was deputed by the Supreme Court at the site. Let alone trying to intervene, there's not even a report known to have been submitted to the SC as regards how the things unfolded. I can't even recall his name. Both the account of the photographer and, even more, Vajpayee's speech, in a way, draw our attention to that aspect. As far as I recall, the fire-eating leaders of the two Babri Masjid defence committees went completely silent in the immediate wake of the demolition. No one showed the courage even to go on a protest hunger strike. Of course, those were very difficult days. The Union Government dismissed the state government. The RSS was banned, for a while. In the following poll, the SP-BSP alliance would come to power. Sukla On 5 December 2017 at 21:59, Sukla Sen <[email protected]> wrote: > > I/II. > Babri mosque: The build-up to a demolition that shook India > by Praveen Jain > > http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-42106056 > > II. > Atal Bihari Vajpayee Provoking Speech Before Babri Masjid Demolition > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Nvqqx5_Po&feature=youtu.be > > -- > Peace Is Doable > > > -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
