Dec 6, 1992 Babri 'structure' was brought down ..... who said on Dec 5th 1992 -- "We will make BJP sing Bhajans" :::::::

 (old blog ... but a refresher as Jan 22 approaches fast ... On Jan 22, 2024 Ram Temple was launched and dedicated to God Ram) 

Dec 6, 1992 Babri 'structure' was brought down ..... who said on Dec 5th 1992 -- "We will make BJP sing Bhajans" ::::::: 

# “We will make the BJP sing Bhajans”. – Union Home Minister S B Chavan on Dec 5, 1992.

Another quote from a popular leader also on Dec 5, 1992 will be relevant to refer to. 

# “I will tell you the arth (meaning) of the Supreme Court verdict. It does not mean we have to stop kar seva. Actually, the Supreme Court has given us the right to continue kar seva. Rokne ka to sawal hi nahin hai 

(There is no question of stopping us). Tomorrow we will not be violating any court order if we perform kar seva)”. – Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Dec 5, 1992

In retrospect it may be easily stated that P V Narasimha Rao as the Prime Minister had failed to frame his own plans to 'protect' Babri masjid. 

Moreover, a lacklustre Home Minister S B Chavan too did not help much. “The shattering denouement occurred because in the end it amounted to a judgement call in which he (Rao) was left playing by the rules of an indoor game, while the Sangh took to the battlefield,” wrote Zafar Agha in ‘India Today’.

Among Rao’s associates and colleagues – Sharad Pawar (then Defence Minister) and the then HRD Minister Arjun Singh hardly had faith in the RSS’s words of assurances. Some years later Subodh Kant Sahay told me that on the advice of Pawar, he had met Prime Minister Rao and  “warned” him that Kalyan Singh government could hardly be trusted with. 

The Congress government had lost all initiatives to checkmate Sangh Parivar from bringing down the Masjid or the structure when it declined to act against Kalyan Singh government in UP. 

At a later stage, several Congress leaders including from north east like Late P A Sangma had said: “S B Chavan acted fast in sending fax notes to UP Chief Minister. In one such belated letter to Kalyan Singh, our Home Minister had specifically mentioned that Kar Sewaks were buying Trishuls which could be used for offensive and damaging purposes”.

However, only a week prior to December 6 mega episode, S B Chavan dismissed L K Advani’s reported statement that Kar Sewa will be performed with bricks and shovels. 

Chavan perhaps surprised many members in the Rajya Sabha and chiefly his party colleagues when he had said: “.....I have checked with Advaniji and he has said he was misquoted by the media”.  

Sound Bytes: Refer .... a few quotes: 

# “.....They should arrest me at the earliest because, after all, it is I who fulfilled one of the major objectives of our party”. – Kalyan Singh on Dec 8, 1992 – two days after Babri demolition

# “We will be performing Kar Seva with bricks and shovels on the 2.77 acres of disputed land”. – L K Advani in mid November 1992

# “The mosque is a sign of a slavery in Independent India.....”. – M M Joshi in Nov 1992

Uma Bharti and M M Joshi: Dec 6, 1992

Hindutva mascots: M M Joshi, Kalyan Singh, Advani, Uma Bharati 

# “The Ram Janmabhoomi Movement had a propulsion and life with or without BJP....You may well say that Hindu bashing or denigrading the moral and the spiritual force of Hinduism as an allergy is secularism. But I do not agree equating Ram Janmabhoomi with the Babri Masjid”. – 
L K Advani 

The Congress leadership – especially the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty and more particularly Sonia Gandhi certainly had complaints against Rao. 

Talk to Congress leaders, to this day many of them almost unhesitatingly hold him responsible for the erosion of the grand old party’s support base in the cow belt. Sonia Gandhi allegedly denied entry of his body to AICC head quarters. The party also denied Rao a funeral in Delhi, a place of party heroes.