There was a gaggle of ministers and I used to be considered one of them, mentioned Sharad Pawad. (FILE)
New Delhi:
As the Ram Janmbhoomi motion gathered steam in 1992, BJP chief Vijaya Raje Scindia had assured then prime minister PV Narasimha Rao that nothing would occur to Babri Masjid and he believed her in opposition to the recommendation of his ministers, NCP chief Sharad Pawar revealed on Tuesday.
At the launch of senior journalist Neerja Chowdhury’s e book ‘How Prime Ministers Decide’, Mr Pawar, who was the defence minister on the time of the Babri Masjid demolition, mentioned he together with then house minister and the house secretary was current on the assembly.
“There was a group of ministers and I was one of them… It was decided that the prime minister should call a meeting of leaders of the respective party,” the NCP chief mentioned.
“In that meeting, Vijaya Raje Scindia had assured the prime minister that nothing would happen to the Babri Masjid,” he mentioned. Mr Pawar mentioned that whereas he, the house minister and residential secretary felt something may occur, Rao selected to consider Scindia.
Ms Chowdhury, in the meantime, recalled a dialog that Rao had with some senior journalists within the aftermath of the mosque demolition the place the prime minister was requested what he was doing when the demolition occurred.
She claimed that Rao had advised journalists that he allowed it to occur as a result of it might finish a festering sore and he felt the BJP would lose its major political card.
The e book was launched by Mr Pawar, together with Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan, Congress chief Shashi Tharoor, former railway minister and BJP chief Dinesh Trivedi, and Maharashtra’s former CM Prithviraj Chavan.
The dialogue was moderated by senior journalist Rajdeep Sardesai. Trivedi recalled the time of Rajiv Gandhi as prime minister and the function of Arun Nehru, considered one of his key advisors.
“Arun Nehru was like family… That was one of the best periods and if it continued things would be very different,” Trivedi mentioned.
Prithviraj Chavan, who served as a Union minister within the UPA authorities, mentioned not dealing with the Anna Hazare motion correctly triggered the downfall of the Congress-led alliance.
“What caused that downfall was what happened immediately before that. Scams, 2G… We didn’t handle Anna Hazare rightly. That’s what brought an end to the Congress government,” he mentioned.
He additionally mentioned that former prime minister Manmohan Singh was good at constructing consensus and talked about the nuclear deal.
Chowdhury’s e book analyses the working types of the nation’s prime ministers via the prism of six choices of historic significance.
Former PM Indira Gandhi’s return to energy in 1980 after her humiliating defeat put up the Emergency in 1977, Rajiv Gandhi’s resolution to undo the Supreme Court’s judgment within the Shah Bano case, V P Singh’s implementation of the Mandal Commission Report, PV Narasimha Rao’s function as prime minister throughout the Babri Masjid incident, and the governments beneath Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh are among the many subjects mentioned within the e book.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV workers and is printed from a syndicated feed.)
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