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| Speaking in the Parliament, Jaitley led the charge against the report and against Justice Liberhan personally. Jaitley suggested that Justice Liberhan may not have actually authored the report and, reiterating what Sushma Swaraj had read out in the Lok Sabha, citing from page 999 of the report, commented that Justice Liberhan had credited Commission's Counsel [[Harpreet Singh Giani]] with helping with the analysis, conclusions, editing and language and therefore called it the "Liberhan-Giani" report. He charged the report with "factual hallucinations". He cited the incorrect date of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination as well as the inclusion of the names of some historians in the report as evidence.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://twocircles.net/2009dec11/babri_demolition_terrorist_act_guilty_unlikely_be_punished_ayodhya_saint.html |title=Babri demolition a terrorist act but guilty unlikely to be punished: Ayodhya saint |publisher=TwoCircles.net |accessdate=2012-02-28}}</ref> | | Speaking in the Parliament, Jaitley led the charge against the report and against Justice Liberhan personally. Jaitley suggested that Justice Liberhan may not have actually authored the report and, reiterating what Sushma Swaraj had read out in the Lok Sabha, citing from page 999 of the report, commented that Justice Liberhan had credited Commission's Counsel [[Harpreet Singh Giani]] with helping with the analysis, conclusions, editing and language and therefore called it the "Liberhan-Giani" report. He charged the report with "factual hallucinations". He cited the incorrect date of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination as well as the inclusion of the names of some historians in the report as evidence.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://twocircles.net/2009dec11/babri_demolition_terrorist_act_guilty_unlikely_be_punished_ayodhya_saint.html |title=Babri demolition a terrorist act but guilty unlikely to be punished: Ayodhya saint |publisher=TwoCircles.net |accessdate=2012-02-28}}</ref> |
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| ==BJP opinion==
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| BJP claimed "selective leaks" of the Liberhan Commission report to the media were planned and motivated, saying they had come at a time when the whole opposition was united against the government.
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| Claiming that the UPA government did not intend to table the full report as it indicts the then Congress government of [[P V Narasimha Rao]], Deputy Leader of BJP in [[Lok Sabha]] [[Sushma Swaraj]] said the Home Ministry leaked the report to divert attention from the issues being raised by a united opposition. Recently the BJP has been raising the issue of rising prices of essential commodities.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politics.gaeatimes.com/2009/11/30/violent-protests-over-price-rise-in-kolkata-3179// |title=Violent protests over price rise in Kolkata |publisher=Blog.taragana.com |date=30 November 2009 |accessdate=2012-02-28}}</ref>
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| "This is a planned leak. It is a motivated leak. The first motivation for leaking the report is the unity in opposition on the sugarcane price issue which the government wanted to break. This unity would have continued on price rise and other issues," Swaraj said.
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| The senior BJP leader further alleged that the government wanted to divert attention from the opposition from its plan of raising Madhu Koda and [[2G]] Spectrum allocation scams in Parliament.
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| BJP President [[Rajnath Singh]] accused the government of "selectively leaking" the Liberhan Commission report on Babri Masjid demolition to the media with the aim of "polarising" voters ahead of the assembly elections in [[Jharkhand]].<ref name="indianexpress.com">{{cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/govt-planned-selective-leaks-of-liberhan-report-bjp/545154/ |title=Govt planned 'selective leaks' of Liberhan report: BJP |newspaper=The Indian Express|accessdate=2012-02-28}}</ref>
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| "The selective leakage was intentional. A report of any commission is traditionally placed on the first day of the Parliament session. The government could have placed it in the House in July as the Liberhan Commission report was given to the government on 30 June," he told reporters.
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| The [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP) also stated that millions of Hindus in the country want the Ram temple.
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| Addressing media-persons at the party headquarters in New Delhi, BJP spokesperson Ravishankar Prasad said, "We want a Ram temple. There should be a constructive solution."
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| Prasad also claimed that BJP leaders had tried to save the structure and that the party has evidence of that.
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| Earlier, reacting to the report, former BJP leader Uma Bharti, who was in [[Ayodhya]] on the day of the demolition, said that the party should come clean over the issue.
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| "Babri report should be published and BJP should come clean over it. I am not apologetic at all, I am willing to be hanged for my role. I want Ram Temple, but I didn't want the mosque to be destroyed that way". She also said that it was difficult to pinpoint people responsible for mosque demolition.
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| The BJP termed the Justice M S Liberhan Commission as politically motivated and charged the Congress with providing the "cushion" for demolition of the controversial structure at [[Ayodhya]].
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| Continuing the tirade against Justice Liberhan Commission and the ATR tabled in Parliament recently, state BJP President and a member of parliament Radha Mohan Singh alleged that the findings of the commission were "perverse and ill-founded".<ref name="indianexpress.com"/>
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| In fact, the Congress should be blamed for the demolition as the Congress-led government had opened the locks of the Ram Mandir, organised the ''shilanayas'' of the temple at the controversial site thereby providing a "cushion to Ram sevaks" to demolish the controversial structure, Singh claimed.
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