Ayodhya is in news once again.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered Puja in the Grand Ram Temple and also conducted a mega Roadshow alongside UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. The route to Delhi is clearly via Uttar Pradesh and hence the saffron outfit's target is 100 per cent sweep -- all 80 seats.
However, it ought to be mentioned that Ayodhya issue has been discussed and debated in the past and even the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was accused of completing the pilgrimage from "hypocrisy to theocracy".
Initiating a discussion on a motion which entails voting, Congress member S Jaipal Reddy had said Uma Bharati had turned a "restless soul which keeps alternating from ministry to monastery". Reddy and other Congress leaders had demanded that L K Advani, M M Joshi and Bharati should be dropped from the cabinet for their alleged role in the demolition of the Babri Masjid.
Terming the demolition of the Babri Masjid as a 'colossal crime'; he said the CBI chargesheet had said that Home Minister Advani was involved in the criminal conspiracy hatched in BJP MP Vinay Katiyar's house in Ayodhya for the demolition.
The Motion, moved under Rule 184 of the House, had said -- "...this House calls upon the Prime Minister to drop three ministers .....against whom prima facie charged have been found to exist for their involvement in the demolition of the Babri Masjid".
Jaipal Reddy, who excelled as a spokesman for both the Janata Dal and the Congress, said PM Vajpayee's comments that the movement for Ram temple was an expression of "nationalist feeling" and on temple construction were not a "slip of the tongue but a slip of masks".
"Vajpayee's studied posture of moderation through "prevarication" made one wonder whether he was a "converted liberal or reconverted fundamentalist", Reddy had said.
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