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            New Delhi: 
            The 
            Liberhan Commission probing the demolition of the Babri Masjid has 
            hit out at then Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh for 
            embarking on a “pogrom leading up to the events of December 6th 1992″ 
            as 
            soon he entered office. 
            In a scathing indictment of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 
            government headed by Kalyan Singh, the one-man commission said in 
            its report: “Kalyan Singh’s government was the essential component 
            needed by the Sangh Parivar for its purposes. Kalyan Singh lived up 
            the expectations of the Parivar”.
 
              
            It 
            said in the conclusion chapter that the government had 
            “systematically and in a pre-planned manner removed inconvenient 
            bureaucrats from positions of power, dismantled and diluted the 
            security apparatus and infrastructure, lied consistently to the high 
            court and the Supreme Court of India and to the people of India to 
            evade constitutional governance and thus betrayed the confidence of 
            the electorate”.   
            
            According to Liberhan, Kalyan Singh maintained a “studied silence” 
            even at the height of the crisis in December 1992 and “refused to 
            allow even a single measure which might impede the Ayodhya campaign 
            or prevent the assault on the disputed structures, the journalists 
            or the innocent people”.    
            The 
            report said that he and his cabinet members “consciously allowed the 
            writ of the extra constitutional authority, i.e. the RSS, to run the 
            state.   
            “The 
            chief minister and his cabinet were the proverbial insiders who 
            caused the collapse of the entire system.”   
            Even 
            when it was brought to his notice that the Babri Masjid had been 
            demolished and mobs were attacking Muslims in Ayodhya, he did not 
            direct the police “to use force or resort to firing to chase away 
            the miscreants or to save the lives of those wretched innocents…”   
            “The 
            wanton violence against human life and property continued unabated 
            and even at that late stage, the chief minister did not use the 
            central forces which could have been swiftly deployed,” the report 
            states. 
              
              
              
              
              
              
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