Lucknow: Suspended BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti today (Dec 18, 2004) said that the demolition of the disputed structure at Ayodhya on December 6, 1992 was in fact a "failure" of the Ram Temple movement leaders like VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad) and BJP as there was no plan to demolish it.

"Though the demolition of the disputed structure was a victory for the Hindu society and was a natural consequence, it was a failure on the part of the temple movement leaders like VHP and BJP", she said at a function in Lucknow.

Uma, who is on a yatra from Karimnagar in Hyderabad to Ayodhya, said that the Hindu society believed in sacrifice but found itself in a fix over "aggression".

She recalled that BJP had got an absolute majority in the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls in 1991 after the incident of firing on Karsevaks at Ayodhya in 1990.

She said that the temple movement leaders had no plan to demolish the disputed structure.

"We had gone there only to offer symbolic karseva by a handful of sand. Our plan was to form public opinion to exert public pressure after which the then Kalyan Singh Government would have resigned, the temple movement would have gained momentum and we would have been able to get support from the whole society", she said.