Tuesday, July 19 2005 17:41 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) today (July 19, 2005) met President A P J Abdul Kalam and demanded a CBI inquiry into the terrorist attack at the disputed site in Ayodhya.

A delegation of sadhus, led by VHP leader Ashok Singhal, also met Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil and submitted a memorandum demanding tighter security at Ayodhya and other important places of worship across the country.

"We have met the President and the Home Minister and informed them that the terrorists had made their way into the complex from the area adjoining the acquired land inhabited by minorities," VHP Supremo Ashok Singhal told reporters in New Delhi emerging from a 30-minute-meeting with Kalam.

He said the delegation brought into the notice of the President about the security lapses including that some watchtowers were unmanned at the time of the attack.

Singhal claimed that the Home Minister, whom the delegation had earlier met, had accepted their seven demands and expressed hope that they would be implemented soon.

Alleging 'laxity' in security at the complex on the day of the attack, the sadhus charged the Mulayam Singh Government in Uttar Pradesh with 'conspiracy' on the whole issue.

"Even after ten days of the attack, neither Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav nor any of his cabinet colleagues have visited Ayodhya. This is because of their policy of appeasement," Jagadguru Ramabhadracharya Maharaj said.

He said that lakhs of rupees were spent on security at Ayodhya, but the terrorists were able to enter the complex with lethal arms and carry out an attack near the sanctum sanctorum.