NEW DELHI: Row erupted in the Lok Sabha on Monday over the Liberhan Commission of Inquiry into the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) demanded that the report be tabled in the house.

A probe committee, Liberhan Commission is its report has held responsible three top leaders of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) for the demolition of Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992.

In a leak report of Liberhan Commission, former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former home minister LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi have been found guilty of Babri Mosque (Babri masjid) demolition.

Addressing the session Home Minister Chidambaram said there had been no leakage of the report. There was only one copy of the report and that was with the home ministry, he said.

The opposition led by the BJP stuck to its demand that the report be immediately tabled. BJP members gathered near Speaker Meira Kumar’s podium, raising slogans.

When the din refused to subside, the speaker adjourned the house.

Calling them “pseudo-moderates,” the Justice Manmohan Singh Liberhan Commission of Inquiry has indicted former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee along with current Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha L K Advani and former BJP president Murli Manohar Joshi, among others, for the demolition of the Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992.

Citing the evidence it gathered, which includes witness statements and official records, one of the key conclusions of the Commission is said to be that the entire build-up to the demolition was meticulously planned. And there was nothing to show that these leaders were either unaware of what was going on or innocent of any wrongdoing. The Commission probed the “sequence of events leading, and all facts and circumstances relating, to the occurrences at Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid complex on December 6, 1992” — the day the Babri Masjid was martyred.

NEW DELHI: Reeling under internal bickerings and controversy surrounding Jaswant Singh’s expulsion, the BJP on Sunday suffered further
embarrassment when Sudheendra Kulkarni, who was a close aide of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L K Advani, decided to quit the party over ‘ideological differences’.

He, however, maintained that his decision had nothing to do with the expulsion of Jaswant Singh over his book “Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence”.

“I decided to end my association with the BJP several weeks back. My decision has nothing to do with the unfortunate incident of Jaswant Singh-ji,” Kulkarni told Times Now.

He said he would continue to be a well-wisher of the party and added: “I have the highest regard for Advani-ji and Atal Bihari Vajpayee-ji, whom I have worked with for 13 years.”

Kulkarni, who began his political activism as a Communist, worked in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) during Vajpayee’s time and served as his speech writer, media adviser and political aide.

“From now on I will be totally independent. I will work with like-minded members of other parties…,” Kulkarni told the news channel.

BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said that his dissociation from the BJP or its leaders is not going to have any effect on the party. “Kulkarni is not a member of BJP or an office-bearer of the party,” he said.

After BJP’s debacle in the Lok Sabha polls, Kulkarni had been critical of the party’s election campaign strategy and management as also Varun Gandhi’s hate speech. He had incurred the wrath of the RSS when he wrote about Sangh Parivar “interference” in BJP’s functioning.