I said he was right leaning. I know all this. The difference between Vajpayee and Modi is the same as between a Reagan and a Trump.
The Supreme Court had allowed Karsevaks to proceed toward Ayodhya. Infact it was Rajiv Gandhi who had opened the doors of Babri Mosque -
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This excerpt from Zoya Hasan’s ‘Congress after Indira’ examines the Congress’s Ayodhya strategy in the context of the Shah Bano case.
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This quote from that article -
By the autumn of 1989, the atmosphere had become surcharged with tension when the VHP announced plans to perform shilanyas (consecration) in different parts of the country and carry bricks, manufactured for the purpose, to Ayodhya to lay the foundation stone of the Rama temple. In the face of this, the Congress government allowed the VHP to perform shilanyas at the disputed site. Rajiv Gandhi had taken a legalistic rather than a political position, which meant that there could be no objection to a Rama temple but the mosque must be protected