When the CBI wanted to grill Advani the highest leader in BJP over Babri demolition, now things are taking an interesting turn.
Ram Vilas Vedanti, a former BJP MP and an accused in the Babri mosque demolition case, claimed it was he and not the BJP patriarch LK Advani who incited the frenzied karsevaks to pull down the disputed shrine.
“I demolished and got demolished the disputed structure, the ruin that stood there. The accusations against L K Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia are wrong,” he said.
Vedanti’s remarks came two days after the Supreme Court resurrected the conspiracy charge against Advani, Joshi and union minister Uma Bharti in the Babri Masjid demolition case.
Vedanti said, in fact, Advani, Joshi and Scindia even took the microphone from him and tried to persuade the karsevaks to come down from atop the structure and leave. They even made the plea in English, he later told a TV news channel.
Vedanti said he, Mahant Avaidyanath, also a former BJP MP, and VHP leader Ashok Singhal exhorted the karsevaks to raze the disputed structrue. Both Avaidyanath and Singhal are now dead.
He told India Today TV channel he was prepared to be “hanged” for the cause of Ram temple.
Now there are allegations that a group of BJP leaders have conspired against Advani and do want him to become the President of India. That is the reason the CBI was asked to dig the case they allege. But it was Modi who proposed the name of Advani .
