Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar has said the party and not former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was responsible for unlocking of Babri Masjid gates and asserted that the “BJP-planted” Arun Nehru was behind it.
Mr. Aiyar also said his guess is that had Gandhi been alive and been the Prime Minister instead of P.V. Narasimha Rao, Babri Masjid would still be standing, the BJP would have been given an appropriate riposte and he would have found a solution similar to the one that the Supreme Court arrived at years later.
He hailed the Congress top brass’ decision to decline the invitation for the January 22 Ram temple consecration ceremony.
