New Delhi: Congress on February 13 stepped up attack on Prime Minister Atal Behari
Vajpayee charging him with "colluding with VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad) in subverting
law of the land" and alleged that the government's application in the Supreme Court
in the matter of Ayodhya was prompted by "bad intentions".
"Strategy of BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) and its affiliates like the VHP and RSS
(Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) have always been so designed as to advance their core
communal agenda by bringing Ayodhya issue in instalments. Vajpayee government is also
party to the same strategy," party spokesman S Jaipal Reddy told reporters.
Alleging that Atal Behari Vajpayee was "colluding" with VHP in subverting law of the
land, he said that though whatever is happening between the two sides was being
projected as a matter of negotiations, the fact of the matter was that "both the NDA
government and VHP have been coordinating their efforts".
"Pravin Togadia has been pulled up not because he was untruthful but because he was
untimely in his utterances," he said adding that the goal of the BJP and VHP was the
same but their tactical efforts may differ.
Referring to the government's application on the vacation of apex court's order
banning any kind of religious activity in the 77 acres of land in Ayodhya acquired by
the government after the demolition of the disputed structure in 1992, he said this
was intended to make available the land to the VHP.
"This application itself was prompted by bad intentions. BJP is also interested in
facilitating the process of the entire piece of land being made available to the
VHP," he said.
PTI
