Ayodhya Ram Temple: Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar said on Friday (January 19) that the Congress, not the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, will be held responsible for opening the lock of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in 1986, because Arun Nehru, who was powerful in the party at that time, would be held responsible. All this was done from. Iyer alleged that Arun Nehru was a ‘plant’ of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Congress.
At the launch of his new book ‘The Rajiv I Nyo’, he also said that if Rajiv Gandhi had not died in 1991, there would have been a solution to the Ayodhya dispute in which the mosque would also have remained intact. Ram Mandir Can also be made.
From opening the lock in the book to Shah Bano
Iyer, who worked with Rajiv Gandhi as an officer when he was the Prime Minister, has thrown light on important cases like the lock opening episode, foundation stone laying and Shah Bano in this book.
On the Ayodhya issue, Iyer said that with a majority of over 400 seats in the Lok Sabha, Rajiv Gandhi had no reason to please Muslims or encourage Hindu sentiment.
‘Rajiv Gandhi will never allow the lock to be opened’
Discussing the episode of opening of the lock in detail, he said, “The lock was opened and a large number of Hindu pilgrims who had gathered deliberately came inside and Rajiv did not know anything about it…Locks Congress had a hand in opening it… That Congressman knew that Rajiv Gandhi would never allow the lock to be opened by canceling the executive order and that is why he kept this matter away from Rajiv.
According to him, within a year Rajiv Gandhi came to know about those conspiracies and later Arun Nehru joined BJP.
‘Congress leadership did not become a part of petty politics’
He said that Congress should not be held responsible for opening the lock, not Rajiv Gandhi. Iyer said that as a Congressman, it is a matter of pride for him that the Congress leadership did not become a part of petty politics and rejected the invitation for the consecration ceremony.