Deshpande denies BJP were unaware of Babri Masjid conspiracy

Deshpande denies BJP were unaware of Babri Masjid conspiracy
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

DEC 18: Noted Gandhian Nirmala Deshpande today strongly refuted media reports quoting her as saying that the top leadership of the BJP was clueless about the conspiracy to demolish the Babri Masjid and added to say that demolition was a "pre-meditated and pre-planned" one.

Deshpande, a former MP, told reporters here that the false statements attributed to her were "intended to create evidence to absolve certain political functionaries of a particular party."

Denouncing the demolition as "an attack on cultural ethos of India and her age-old tolerance and Gandhian values, she said she never told reporters that she knew who the real conspirators were and that they would be revealed only after her death.

"I don't know who the real conspirators are. There are,however, grave suspicions about the involvement of certain individuals of a particular political party, a matter which the judiciary will decide," she said.

Deshpande, who was at Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, when the structure was demolished, said in a written statement that the dome of the mosque did not fall from the top but seemed to fall on its side from the base. Perhaps, that was why the karsewaks, who had climbed to the top, were asked to come down by the organisers so that they did not get hurt. It looked as if experts had been hired for the demolition, she said.