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    Jyoti Basu On The Demolition of The Babri Masjid

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    Jyoti Basu, the former Chief Minister of West Bengal, discusses the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in 1992 in this document. He states that he warned the then Prime Minister two days before the demolition based on alarming reports. When the demolition occurred, he met with the Prime Minister and asked why more was not done to save the mosque. Basu also notes that he testified before the Liberhan Commission investigating the demolition and expressed his views on the rise of communalism in India.

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    Jyoti Basu, the former Chief Minister of West Bengal, discusses the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in 1992 in this document. He states that he warned the then Prime Minister two days before the demolition based on alarming reports. When the demolition occurred, he met with the Prime Minister and asked why more was not done to save the mosque. Basu also notes that he testified before the Liberhan Commission investigating the demolition and expressed his views on the rise of communalism in India.

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    Jyoti Basu on the Demolition of the Babri Masjid

    I AM happy to hear that People's Democracy, our weekly paper is bringing out a special edit
    This was the background in which once again, when the BJP was in power in UP, with its gove
    Our Party demanded a meeting of the National Integration Council and the then Congress prim
    Two days before the demolition, I rang up the PM to tell him that alarming news was coming
    When Surjeet and I later met the PM we asked him why no attempt was made to save the Masjid
    Communalism of the majority does lead, in some areas of our country, to minority communalis
    EVIDENCE ON RECORD
    I was asked by the Justice Liberhan Commission, set up a long time back to probe the demoli
    I think it is worthwhile to add that because of my statements on communalism and calling su
    Now on the Gujarat barbarism the PM on the one hand says he cannot show his face outside In
    PEOPLE’S DEMOCRACY, December 08, 2002

    Jyoti Basu’s Deposition before Liberhan Commission:


    I am happy that I have been given the opportunity to appear before the Commission. I wish t
    • There were reports that the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya may be attacked by the Kar Sevaks. Th

    • Two days before the demolition, i.e., on December 4, 1992, I rang up the prime minister t

    • After the UP government was dismissed, Sri Kalyan Singh addressed a meeting in Calcutta o

    • In the third week of December, 1993, Surjeet and I met the prime minister and asked him w

    • The present prime minister, Sri Vajpayee, met me on March 20, 1999, in Calcutta and asked

    We shall await the findings of the Commission.

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