Advani accepts the December 6 was the saddest day in his life

Senior BJP leader L K Advani as per the reports of the PTI today said that he felt the demolition of the Babri mosque in 1992 had "badly dented" the credibility of his party. He had taken nineteen years to realise that. Recalling a newspaper article he had written a fortnight after the demolition, he said that while describing the genesis of evolution of Ayodhya movement, he had said that the day the disputed structure was pulled down was the saddest day of his life.

In the latest post on his blog, Advani said that some colleagues had criticised him for that statement saying, "Why he was being apologetic about the development?". Advani said he had replied, "I am not at all apologetic. Indeed, I am proud of my association with the Ayodhya movement. But I am extremely sad that our party's credibility has been badly dented by the happenings of December 6." Why this double standard Advani ji. On one hand you say that  December 6 was the saddest day in your life and on the other hand you say that you are not at all apologitic about the demolition and you further said in your blog that you are proud with your association with the Ayodhya movement. Either you should have the guts to condemn whole heartedly the sad demolition of Babri Masjid or you should own the complete responsibilty. What does it mean when you say that the act of your party and RSS has dented the credibility of your party, that means you accept that your party has done it with a meticulously planned strategy.

He recalled that he had written in his article that organisations involved in the movement could be faulted for not being able to judge the impatience of the people participating in it.  "I felt sad that a meticulously drawn up plan of action, where under the UP government was steadily marching forward towards discharging its mandate regarding temple construction without violating any law or disregarding any court order had gone awry (because of the demolition). Advani ji, here again you have accepted that your party was at fault and your partymen had gone awry and did the most ghastly act.

"If the exercise contemplated had now been short-circuited in a totally unforeseen manner, the organisations involved in the movement can be faulted for not being able to judge the impatience of the people participating in the movement, but they were certainly not responsible for what happened that day", Advani recalled as having stated in the article. What a mockery of your own statements you are making. Being such a senior leader and senior parliamentarian, you should not play a double standard.