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Advani Asks Muslims to Facilitate Mandir
 

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) former Chief and former Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani touring the nation called on Muslims to facilitate the creation of a temple to Lord Rama in place of the decrypt and destroyed Babri Masjid. Almost apologetic to the Islamic community, he urged them to facilitate an “honorable settlement” and promised that the “affinity and good relations it will generate between the Hindus and Muslims will be unprecedented.”

The dispute he is referring to is about an old Masjid that Hindus say was built over an ancient Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Rama by Babur the founder of the Moghul Empire in India. A group of Hindu volunteers broke through a police barricade and destroyed the old Masjid in 1993 sparking off major Hindu-Muslim riots that resulted in the death of thousands of people. The BJP’s political opponents accuse Advani and other leaders of aiding and abetting this violent act and a Commission of Inquiry is trying to get to the bottom of this accusation.
 

Last year when Advani visited Pakistan he called Jinnah a secularist   sparking major opposition to his continuance as Chief of BJP by hard-line elements within the party. That single statement made him lose his position in the party but an unperturbed Advani continues to disregard the dictates of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) or the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (VHP). He even volunteered to partner with the Congress if they should drop their “minorityism” policy and fight the common enemy of India – communism, poverty, and underdevelopment. 

While all these moderation to political tempers has angered extreme right wing elements in the Sangh Parivar, he is wooing middle-class Indians who are more interested in jobs, development, economic choices, prosperity, and decent living.