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Congress
asks Advani, BJP not to reopen Ayodhya wounds
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 11:18:54 AM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
The Congress Saturday expressed hope that veteran
leader L.K. Advani or his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would not
re-start the Ayodhya movement that created a communal divide in
the country.
Calling Advani as the 'Bhishma Pitamah' of the National Democratic
Alliance (NDA), Congress spokesman Manish Tewari said the saffron
leader's controversial rath yatra from Gujarat's Somnath to
Ayodhya 20 years ago had impacted the country's secularism.
"Pitamah of National Democratic Alliance... With wisdom of
hindsight, I do hope that neither Advani nor his party does
anything which impacts India's pluralism and secularism or in any
manner reopens any of the old wounds which have taken a long time
to heal," Tewari told reporters here on the very day when Advani
visited Somnath to mark the anniversary of the 1990 rath yatra.
"The implications of that yatra, the communal conflagration it
unleashed, the wounds it opened... The nation has barely been able
to surmount it," Tewari said.
Earlier in the day, Advani, who visited the Somnath temple in
Gujarat along with former party leader Uma Bharti, urged the
Supreme Court to allow the Allahabad High Court to deliver the
Ayodhya verdict. He said people had been waiting for a judgment in
the case for over five decades.
Advani said he was not able to understand the apex court's
decision to grant interim stay till Sep 28 on the verdict. The
high court was earlier scheduled to deliver its verdict on the
Babri Masjid-Ramjanmabhoomi title suit Sep 24.
"I appeal to the Supreme Court that the countrymen have been
waiting for the judgment in the case for the last 50 years. I urge
the court to take up the matter on Sep 28 and get the judgment
delivered through this bench (of the Allahabad High Court),"
Advani told reporters.
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