NEW DELHI, Feb 12: Samajwadi Party (SP) has held both BJP and Congress equally responsible for demolition of the Babri mosque and favoured a judicial solution to the dispute.Releasing the manifesto in New Delhi on Thursday, SP general secretary Ramgopal Yadav said both BJP and Congress are trying to mislead the people on the Ayodhya issue to gain political mileage.
The manifesto said while the Muslims have expressed trust in the judiciary to resolve the dispute, the BJP and its frontal organisations including Vishwa Hindu Parishad considered it a matter of faith.
Promising to protect all places of worship, the party said it will enact laws to check atrocities on minorities, backwards and dalits and to put an end to untouchtability.
"Congress is raising false slogans to befool the public, while BJP is spreading rumours to mislead the masses," it said.
Lambasting BJP and Congress for raising the slogan of `stability', it said "those who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi and those who trampled his policiesare now harping on the stability issue. The past of both these parties is not clean," the manifesto said.
Stating that there was no link between development and stability, the party pointed out that stable governments were responsible for all the scams that had surfaced now.
The manifesto said the past record of both Congress and BJP showed that they were responsible for bringing instability in the country by pulling down the governments they were supporting.
He said the Congress had pulled dowm Charan Singh, Chandra Shekhar, Deve Gowda and Gujaral governments, while BJP withdrew support from V P Singh government which proved that their `stability" claim was hollow.
The manifesto said the party would bring to book those guilty for 1984 anti-Sikh and post-Ayodhya incident riots and take action against those indicted by Srikrishna Commission, which probed the 1993 Mumbai riots.
Opposing any move to abolish Article 370 in respect of Jammu and Kashmir, the party said it was against misuse of Article 356in imposing central rule in the states.
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