Wednesday, November 25, 2009

The Liberhan Commission Report


And the New Guiness World Record for "the longest time to write a report" goes to "The Liberhan Commission of Inquiry Report" (what else). Well, it is precisely, 16 years and 4 months. Justice Manmohan Singh Liberhan must have become a grandpa by now. On a more serious note, grandpa has done a seemingly impossible task. Simply compiling such a monumental document of 3 volumes comprising of 1000 pages and what with, all the political pressure, could drive a man crazy. What came of such a mountain of information and evidence? Nothing that we already did not know except that our celebrated kavi and former prime minister Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee is a "pseudo-moderate". The chief culprits the RSS, Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the BJP are the other "pseudo-moderates". And of course, the star of the show Mr. Kalyan Singh. Well according to the report, he was the one who planned, "created an environment" and instigated the goons who destroyed Babri Masjid. OK, so we have heard what we had to hear. But does it not look a bit odd that the report has come up just when the BJP least need it. I mean, after a disappointing defeat at the centre, this looks like a coup de grace by the congress. We can never know the real game but we do know that the congress has "promised the people that they will propose a bill to prevent communal riots". A neat position the congress is in, ain't it?