A cover-up, says CPI(M)

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, DEC. 11. The Left parties today kept up pressure on the BJP-led NDA government on the resignation of the three Union Ministers chargesheeted in the Ayodhya demolition case.

While the CPI(M) termed the NDA statement on Sunday a ``cover- up'', the CPI said it lacked sincerity while both criticised the support to the continuance of Mr. L. K. Advani, Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi and Ms. Uma Bharti and demanded that they resign forthwith.

The CPI(M) politburo said it was strange that the NDA statement mentioned the Prime Minister's remark of December, 1992 but ignored his latest description of the Ram temple movement as an expression of national sentiment. Mr. Vajpayee's declaration that the temple should be built at the site where the masjid stood was a ``gross violation of his constitutional responsibility''.

The NDA statement, which talks about implementing the decision of the Supreme Court, the CPI(M) said, showed the ``casual and dishonest manner' in which the NDA sought to deal with the issue to divert the attention from the serious implications of Prime Minister's statement.

The CPI central committee charged that the non-BJP allies in the NDA had succumbed to the BJP due to their crank opportunism and the desire to cling on to power. Instead of asking the Prime Minister to uphold the Constitution and the law of the land, the NDA was trying to preach every political party.

The Revolutionary Socialist Party MP, Mr. Abani Roy, took objection to Mr. Vajpayee's statement that the Ram temple movement was an expression of national sentiment.

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