You mean that Congress governments both at the Centre and in UP wouldn’t have been able to control the situation?

and how does opening the doors in 1986 imply demolition in 1992?

It doesn’t. But that is what changed the status quo that had held since 1949, and is part of the reason why people don’t see a difference between the Congress and BJP on the use of religion for political purposes.

what about the communal fallout after so much unrest had already been stirred up? if the cong decided to delay implementing a seemingly pro-hindu decision after the idiotic bano appeasement.

and how does opening the doors in 1986 imply demolition in 1992?

They would have at most lost a general election or the UP state government. So what?

I’d imagine that the Wakf would have wanted to appeal to the high court against this decision, and throwing open the mosque in an hour preempted that.

what? selective reading? from your link:

On page 87 of his report, Mr. Liberhan describes the decision of the Faizabad district judge to unlock the mosque on February 1, 1986. One of the reasons the judge cited was a statement by the District Magistrate which said that the reopening of the mosque would not lead to any law and order problems. According to reports at the time, the Congress leadership, acting through Arun Nehru, ensured that the locks of the mosque were opened within an hour of the Faizabad judge’s ruling.

after the ruckus about bano, do you realize what would have happened if the cong dragged its feet on impleenting a court ruling?b

But in this case, Congress opened the mosque to the VHP after bowing to the Ulema’s wishes over Bano. How was this not about getting votes by pacifying both sides of the religious divide?

the 1984 murders of sikhs by congress was disgusting and reprehensible, but te congress neither rose to power as a result of those murders nor did they garner vote banks as a result.

stirring up ram janmabhoomi, which was donee merely because bjp needed to get some attention, has created open wounds that will take a long time, if ever, to heal.

All the big parties are the same, Cong – 1984 anti Sikh riots, CPM – Nandigram..

the perversity is in the people who ask this question instead of facing up to the reality that what was always well known is now official – the bjp party is led by amoral murderers who rose to power on the backs of a pliant hindu middle class and a lot of dead bodies.

It looks like the Vajpayee issue is headed to the courts. Kind of explains Liberhan’s furious backpedaling yesterday. I’m at a loss to explain how the gentleman can excoriate the media for reporting what he wrote about Vajpayee.