17 Years to say that the Sky is Blue!

The Liberhan commission report is something like watching each and every stroke of Sachin's 175 live in Hyderabad and then reading a report on the knock in the next day's paper.To take 17 years to say that Kalyan Singh was the culprit-in-chief is a mockery of every Indian's senses.Whatever is official now was known on December 6,1992 itself.But exonerating Narasimha Rao's regime of all guilt smells of political leanings.

Now what surprises me is that the ATR(Action Taken Report) submitted by the UPA government has no intentions of persecuting the guilty.It instead speaks of new stringent laws,strengthening the National Integration Council etc.The lack of political will to convict Advani & co speaks volumes about the fears of Congress about a electoral backlash from the Hindu heartland.

Revisiting history,the entire fault does not lie at the swastika-drawn doors of BJP.Lal Krishna Advani started the Rath Yatra to mobilise kar sevaks from all over the country only after the doors of Babri Masjid were unlocked in 1985.This unlocking itself was a political move by the Rajiv Gandhi government to appease hardline Hindutva leaders after it's stance in the Shah Bano case made it to be interpreted as a pro-Islam regime.

Had the doors been not unlocked,there would not have been arousal of passions and subsequent mobilisiation of Kar Sevaks and December 6 would never have happened.If Vajpayee is pseudo-moderate,then Congress is pseudo secular.Babri Masjid was brought down by thousands of Kar sevaks and Rajiv Gandhi.

Meanwhile,it is prudence to relegate Liberhan to the dustbin and start working on other pressing issues.As the beautiful poem goes,

ராமருக்கு வேண்டும் கோவில்!

பாபருக்கு வேண்டும் மசூதி!

பொது மக்களுக்கு வேண்டும்

சுகாதாரமான கழிப்பறைகளேனும்!