Liberhan report on Babri demolition tabled

THE BABRI GHOST: It has been 17 years since the Babri Masjid was demolished in Ayodhya.

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New Delhi: The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government went in for all out for damage control on the Babri Masjid demolition issue with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reportedly giving Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee the clearance to present the English version of the Liberhan Commission of Inquiry report in Parliament on Tuesday.

The Government tabled the report as well as the Action Taken Rrport in Parliament on Tuesday - as opposed to its original tabling date about a month away - since a large chunk was leaked to the media on Monday and has been made public.

Home Minister P Chidambaram tabled the report at 12 noon. The Cabinet meeting was presided over by Pranab Mukherjee, who is House leader in absence of the Prime Minister.

As soon as Chidambaram placed the report in the House, BJP members led by party President Rajnath Singh stood up wanting to know who and how the report was leaked to a newspaper which published a part of it on Monday.

Chidambaram, instead of rising to reply, quietly left the House to go to Rajya Sabha to place the bulky report there amid shouting by BJP members.

Rajnath Singh has called for a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the alleged leakage of the report.

Singh said that if Home Minister P Chidambaram has denied that the report was leaked from the Home Ministry - even though only the Home Ministry had the report - then the Home Minister should take moral responsibility in the matter.

Manmohan Singh - who is on a state visit to the United States of America - had called on Pranab Mukherjee from Washington on Monday night asking him to resolve the crisis following allegations by Opposition parties that the report had been leaked to the media.

An emergency cabinet meeting headed by Pranab Mukherjee was held on Tuesday morning to discuss the tabling of the report in Parliament.

It took 17 years and 48 extensions for the Liberhan Commission probing the 1992 demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya to submit its report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in June this year.

One of the country's longest running inquiry commissions, which has cost the government nearly Rs 7 crore, the Liberhan Commission was set up to probe the sequence of events leading to the razing of the Babri mosque by Hindu mobs on December 6, 1992.