Agitated for temple, not for masjid demolition: Uma Bharti

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New Delhi: Insisting that she was not involved in bringing down Babri Masjid, expelled BJP leader Uma Bharti, a prime accused in the case on Thursday said she is ready to face any consequences in the wake of the submission of the Liberhan Commission report to the Prime Minister.

Bharti said she merely led an agitation to Ayodhya to muster support for construction of Ram Temple.

“There were about 2.5 lakh activists on that day and they could not listen to anyone before they stormed the structure,” Bharti, chief of Bharatiya Janshakti party, said while addressing a rally on Women’s Reservation Bill.

“Narasimha Rao could have ordered the force stationed only about 15 minutes away in Faizabad to stop the structure from being demolished. But, he could not dare to order firing on the 2.5 lakh activists,” she said.

Reacting to criticism that she failed to stop the activists, Bharti said, “Why did Sonia Gandhi not stop the riots of 1984 when her husband (Rajiv Gandhi) was Prime Minister.”

Meanwhile, former BJP leader Kalyan Singh, who was UP chief minister when Babri Masjid was demolished, asked the government to table the Liberhan report at the earliest in Parliament. “The government should table the report at the earliest along with ATR. The Commission has submitted the report after a delay (over 16 years) and the government should not delay it any further,” Singh told reporters outside Parliament.