“Why BJP deserves credit for Ram Mandir in Ayodhya”, First Post, January 20, 2024:
“Goli nahin chalegi (police will not open fire),” the late Kalyan Singh remembered his words in a Hindi-language interview in 2009. He was speaking of the time when lakhs of karsevaks had gathered in Ayodhya in December 1992, and he was the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.
The interviewer was not happy. ‘So you let it happen just to save a hundred lives,’ he demanded. Again, Kalyan Singh tried to explain. The crowd was in lakhs. If the police had opened fire, there would have been a stampede. Thousands would have died. But the ‘liberal’ interviewer would not give up on his bloodthirsty line of questioning. ‘So what if a thousand people had died?’ he asked. ‘You let India’s secular foundation be hurt just to save a thousand lives?’
In case you are wondering, the interviewer was not a representative of the British Empire. Nor was he a lawyer for General Reginald Dyer, who had insisted that the firing at Jallianwala Bagh had been necessary to save the foundations of the Empire. He was just from NDTV. But this is only an example of the attacks that the BJP has faced from the ‘secular’ establishment over the years. And the sacrifices that the party has made. The disputed structure in Ayodhya fell on December 6, 1992……”
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