P. V. Narasimha Rao

Narasimha Rao still makes Cong uncomfortable NEW DELHI: CongressaEUR™ discomfort with defending P V Narasimha Rao, who was prime minister when Babri Masjid was demolished, came out in the open on Thursday, with the party acknowledging that...

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...Thursday refuted accusations of bias in the Liberhan Commission report in not blaming the party-led government headed by P.V. Narasimha Rao for the Dec 6, 1992 demolition of the Babri mosque. "The Liberhan Commission did not say that...

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...on the day the Babri mosque was razed in Ayodhya. Pointing out that Manmohan Singh was the number two man in the then P.V. Narasimha Rao government, BJP spokesman Prakash Javadekar told reporters here that the prime minister "should come...

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...description as a ``pseudo-moderateaEUR™aEUR™ who was merely executing the RSS agenda, and the clean chit given to the late P V Narasimha Rao, who was the countryaEUR™s prime minister during the demolition, has already invited BJPaEUR™s...

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...Rao handled the developments in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, in a very commendable manner. ''I salute Narasimha Rao for the way he handled the matter. Had it not been for him, there would have been unprecedented bloodbath,'' Ms...

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...a role in the demolition of the disputed structure at Ayodhya and instead held the Centre's then P V Narasimha Rao government responsible. ''Mr Rao played a key role in the December 6, 1992 demolition to further his political objectives,''...

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...and described BJP leaders as "pseudo-moderates". The report apparently exonerated the Congress prime minister at the time, PV Narasimha Rao, of any responsibility - it said the federal government could not act in the absence of any...

In this article: Babri Masjid, PV Narasimha Rao, LK Advani, and Atal Behari Vajpayee

...the party, Muslims are seen as the first target, a key group across the state. The second would be upper castes. The fact that Narasimha Rao was PM at that time does leave a poser on how Congress would tackle the post-Liberhan debate. The...

In this article: Babri, Narasimha Rao, Culpability, Shiv Sena, Chhagan Bhujbal, BJP, and Sanjay Nirupam

...or less on expected lines, barring insertions such as those on Mr Vajpayee, and the late Narasimha Rao. It virtually gave him a clean chit. ``He (Narasimha Rao) rightly concluded that neither the central forces could be deployed by the...

In this article: BJP, P V Narasimha Rao, L K Advani, Babri Masjid, Murli Manohar Joshi, Kalyan Singh, and Atal Bihari Vajpayee

...Shankar Prasad slammed the newspaper report saying it lacked credibility. "Naming Vajpayee and giving a clean chit of Narasimha Rao is only a sign of lacking credibility. A formal reaction will come from us only when it is tabled in...

In this article: Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Babri Masjid, Bharatiya Janata Party, and Narasimha Rao