Let them learn patriotism, Nationalism, and Communal harmony  from Muslim League Founder Late  Qaed-e-Millath Mohammad Ismail Saheb.

07.12.2009, Lok Sabha (Discussion on Liberhan Report)
ABDUL RAHMAN

Mr. Chairman, Sir, I thank you very much for having given me an opportunity to participate in the discussion over the Babri Masjid Demolition Report which was released by the Commission. The demolition of Babri Masjid on 6th December, 1992 was a most reprehensible act. The perpetrators of this deed had struck not only against a place of worship but also at the principles of secularism, democracy and the rule of law enshrined in our Constitution. In a move as sudden as it was shameful, a group of people of heinous crime managed to outrage the sentiments of millions of Indians of all communities who have reacted to this incident with anguish and dismay.

Sir, the Liberhan Commission Report has explored the fact that the demolition was a well-planned and systematic conspiracy created by the Sangh Pariwar and its sister affiliations comprising the RSS, the VHP, the Bajrang Dal and the BJP. It was neither spontaneous nor a voluntary one. It was a well-orchestrated and a well-planned one. The Report has placed individual culpability for the demolition on a total of 68 persons. Towards this strong indictment, I would like to know what kind of a punitive action is going to be taken towards the 68 persons who were strongly indicted by the Report. It is indeed very shameful even in the history of India. At this juncture, I would like to point out the narration of the Supreme Court verdict through SC 605 of 1995. This judgement was given at the time of the NDA Government only condemning the heinous and criminal act of Babri Masjid demolition towards the then Cabinet and Home Minister, now the hon. Leader of the Opposition. The text very clearly stated in this way: “It was an act of national shame. What was demolished was not merely an ancient structure but the faith of minorities in the sense of justice and fair play of the majority. It shocked their faith in the rule of law and the constitutional process.” This is the exact narration given by the Supreme Court.

At the time of the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Uttar Pradesh, the State was governed by the BJP. The demolition was carried out with full assistance of its sister concern, the RSS. It was running as a parallel Government. It was stated very clearly in the Liberhan Commission Report. It was used as an essential component needed for the demolition act. Even when it was brought to the Chief Minister's attention that the Babri Masjid was being demolished and the mobs were attacking the minorities and the innocents in Ayodhya, he did not direct the police to use their force to protect the people and the innocents. As a result, all the police officers and the Governmental authorities, the complete Government machinery had acted as uniformed karsevaks rather than the protectors.  Closed circuit televisions and metal detectors were intentionally rendered inoperative and ineffective by the Government administration. No video recording of the event happened. Video recording, according to the rule of law, from the Government side has been stopped. The media was targeted and it was heavily harassed. According to the text of the Liberhan Commission Report, some media people had been arrested and they were housed in a very small place and some of those media people were molested. It was a very shameful act. The result of all this is the betrayal of the nation and Indian history. Such a person is now a sitting Member of this House which is the supreme institution of this country. ...(Expunged as ordered by the Chair) Sir, the chief architect of the event was Shri L.K. Advani. He has initiated the Rath Yatra from Somnath to Ayodhya in 1990 which has created 3,000 riots all over the country. Thousands of people were killed. The Times of India, in its Editorial Page, has said that it was not a Rath Yatra, it was a „blood yatra‟. Such a very shameful event had happened in this country. I recall that the then Prime Minister Shri V.P. Singh has not supported the Rath Yatra just to save his Government even though he was getting the support of the BJP for his Government and because of his refusal to support such kind of a criminal act, he had to lose his Government. He was not hesitating to face such an ultimatum. At this juncture, I honestly salute the courage of late V.P. Singhji.

Sir, on many previous occasions and even before the Libarhan Commission, Advaniji has made many conflicting statements. Once he claimed that the demolition of Babri Masjid is the most agonising moment of his life, another time, he confessed that the demolition of Babri Masjid has helped his party to consolidate its vote bank and on another occasion he said that the Ram Temple movement was a matter of pride for Hindus. The way he was attempting to polarise and poisonise the Hindu religious concept was not accepted by the Hindu community and he should realise that. Sir, in order to disturb the peace and harmony of the country, huge amount of money was transferred to the accounts of RSS, VHP, BJP and its associate organisations. As my friend has already mentioned, tens of crores of rupees have been put in their accounts on so many occasions. Where has such a huge amount of money come from? Crores and crores of rupees have been transferred into various accounts for carrying out this kind of a heinous and criminal act. How has this big amount of money been transferred? Who has utilised it? How has it been utilised? All this factual information must be disclosed to the nation. All the judicial cases pending in different courts pertaining to Babri Masjid demolition have to be consolidated and should be adjudicated in one court at the earliest. At this juncture, before I conclude, I would like to recall how a leader should act and how a leader of our country had respected the communal harmony, nationalism and showed great patriotism. At the time of freedom, the country was partitioned. After the formation of Pakistan, at that time the Muslim League Leader in Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah raised the voice in favour of the Muslim minority community in India to protect their rights.

At that time the late Muslim League Leader Qaed-e-Millath Mohammad Ismail Saheb told Mohammad Ali Jinnah Ji, „you are in the foreign country, you are not son of India, you are not the citizen of India, we are the citizens of India, we are the children of this country, we know how to protect the minority issues. We know how to look into the minority problems. You are in the foreign country. You should not speak about a minority community in India. If it is justifiable to talk about a minority, you please think about the minorities, that is, Hindus and Christians living in that country. You please look into the problems of those minorities in Pakistan and do not speak about the minority or the Muslim community in India. We have the courage to face the problems in this motherland.‟ This is patriotism, this is nationalism. This is the communal harmony. This is the communal amity the leadership has shown in this country. Our radical group leaders should learn this kind of lesson from this kind of an act. In our Indian culture, no worship place of any religion is demolished for the creation of another worship place of some other religion. Our Indian people are not having this kind of a culture. India is a secular country, no religion is against any religion, no religion is giving any kind of immorality against the morality of any other religion. All religions are teaching moralities. We may be different in religious names. But as far as the concept of morality is concerned, we are all brothers, we are all sisters in India. I would like to conclude with one particular concept by leaving it for your consideration. At the time of demolition of Babri Masjid because of anger of certain group of people in Pakistan, a few number of Temples were damaged… (Interruptions) Immediately, the Pakistan Government had announced that they would be taken care of… (Interruptions)

We know very well that India is a secular country and Pakistan is not like us. Even then the Pakistan Government had taken the responsibility to renovate the damaged areas in those Temples… (Interruptions) Apart from the completion of the demolition when Pakistan Government had submitted all these things to the Hindu community, our Leader of Opposition, Shri Advani, had gone… (Interruptions) and had participated in the opening of renovated Temples. Like that as this is a secular country, I would appeal in this august House that let this demolished Babri Masjid be reconstructed in the same site by the people, if those people are led by Advani Ji, we are all ready to queue up behind him. That will be a historical achievement in this country. This kind of secularism, this kind of communal harmony, this kind of communal amity should be proved in the history of India. This will be really a new era of all our Indians. This will be the proud of each and every Indian citizen among the world countries.

By taking this opportunity, I would request all our people that because of religion, because of any other worship style, please do not try to differentiate the brotherhood of the people… (Interruptions) All religions are teaching morality. All religions are teaching each and everyone to behave like brothers and sisters. That kind of concept, that kind of principle may please be followed by all our Members irrespective of the State where we are from, irrespective of the political party that we belong to. Thank you, Mr. Chairman Sir, for having given me this opportunity to place my concept and submissions on this debate.