Press Briefing Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Shri Abhishek Singhvi addressed the media today.


Shri Singhvi said that the Liberhan report once again shows the true character, the true identity and the true thinking of the BJP and that is more important than the nitty-gritty of the fact and that character, that identity and that thinking is nasty, brutish and rabid. It divides and by dividing, it tries to rule. So it does exactly what our erstwhile Imperial masters used to do which we rightly condemn. For all the delay, for the entire long wait and nobody has ever justified the long delay in the coming of the report. The real bottom line and the real essence is the content of the report. Now we have it all in black and white. And what we have is a sad, sordid, sorry and saddening saga of brazen cheap politics. It is truly a sad, sordid, sorry and saddening saga of cheap politics. Of cheap politics, which does not care, life, liberty or property of innocent ‘aam-aadmi and is done purely for selfish self interest, for power and for politics.

Shri Singhvi said that this has all the elements of a dark sinister negative film only this is horribly true unlike a film. It cannot be wished away by technical argument, by delay arguments and by procedural arguments. Look at the elements. There is a conspiracy; there is a conspiracy between those several parts which go by the pseudo name the wrong name of the ‘parivar’. There is a ‘rath-yatra’ to promote that conspiracy; there is the purchase of implements on the 6th of December. It is in the hands of the people standing there. There is the movement across India to converge at a fixed time, a fixed place at Ayodhya on a certain date. There are implements, there are food packets. There is full knowledge of those supposedly eminent leaders standing a few meters away. They are exhorting and dancing with joy and thereafter not having the courage of their convictions. They talk of the saddest moments of their life. At least some of them who have the wrong courage of their wrong convictions also talk of the happiest moments of their life. They then shed crocodile tears. It has been proved it is a party of hypocrates; it is a party of dishonest, power hungry position seekers. They can do anything for power. We wish that we had a communal violence bill at that time. Such actions and such parties under that bill, which is on our agenda. These are the people who already stand condemned at the bar of public opinion twenty years ago. They stand condemned because they were captured by candid camera, dancing with joy. The rest is only a matter of detail.

On the question of the reaction of the Congress party after the report was tabled in the Parliament despite the fact that there was a National Integration Council in 1992 that were empowered to take a decision and the fact that the Congress party was in power at that time, Shri Singhvi said that you are mixing up the stand of the accused who are trying to deflect attention. Here is a long list of principal accused. The principal accused belong to a political party and to various sub groups of that political party (a) who were present a few meters away (b) who were governing Uttar Pradesh (c) who were in-charge of law and order which constitutionally and legally is exclusively the obligation of the Uttar Pradesh Government. The crucial issue is this. However, it is these very people who deflect to the Central Government. You omit to say that the Central Government had absolutely no locus and no power to deal with the law and order on the spot but importantly you ignore the fact that no less than the Hon’ble Supreme Court like the entire nation and like the Central Government was misled by the affidavit of Kalyan Singh which in bold terms said that he undertakes and ensures that no untoward incident happens. When the body like Hon’ble Supreme Court was given a solemn affirmation by BJP Chief Minister, to point finger is nothing but digression and deflection. It means you are not serious about punishing the true accused.

Shri Singhvi further said that the report of Commission of Enquiry is basis for further investigation by the police. It can become the basis for further investigation. If there are any new details emerging from that further investigation, then supplementary charge sheets can be filed and will be filed and that is the only way the law proceeds. The moment the report is investigated by the police forces, further action would be taken.




(Tom Vadakkan)

Secretary, AICC