New Delhi: With the Supreme Court washing its hands off the Babri Masjid – Ram temple tug of war in Ayodhya history in a way has come full circle.
The story of this controversy will probably go down in the annals of Indian history as the turning point which changed the destiny of the whole sub continent – almost tragically.
How the brave and modern path chartered for the newly independent country by its first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru who abhorred the mixing of Religion and Politics and told his country men that “dams, bridges and factories are the temples of modern India” was sabotaged by none other than his grandson Rajiv Gandhi when he became P.M. after his mother’s assassination.
The beans have been spilled by none other than our current President Pranav Mukherjee in his memoirs called ‘The Turbulent years – 1980 to 1986’.
He recounts how Rajiv Gandhi won the general elections with a land slide victory immediately after Indira Gandhi’s death due to the polarization that took place after her assassination at the hands of a Sikh bodyguard.
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