NEW DELHI: B JP leader Atal Behari Vajpayee described his party’s performances at Ayodhya as the worst miscalculation and misadventure he told a foreign news agency that his party had failed to honor solemn assurances given to the Supreme Court the Parliament and the prime minister It was all due to the fact that the forces of moderation were sidelined in his party. The hardliners took over. He also referred to the charge of deceit and betrayal against his party and said: “he believed us and we believed our workers but we were also betrayed in that sense and now we realize it was a miscalculation.” In what observers believe to be the most subtle defence of his party Vajpayee stated on the issue whether the masjid should be built on the same place that it should not be built there. It should be built somewhere else while Mandir should be built at the site of the masjid. Vajpayee said that “Mandir is already there may be a make shift Mandir.”
Article extracted from this publication >> December 30, 1992
