Rao's 'kitchen cabinet' guided blast: Sudarshan

RAIGARH, DEC. 12. The RSS chief, Mr. K. Sudarshan, has said that his statement about a bomb explosion causing the demolition of the disputed structure at Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, was based on a fax message sent to the then Prime Minister, Mr. P. V. Narasimha Rao, by a member of his Cabinet, hailing from Maharashtra.

The blast took place under the guidance of members of Mr. Narasimha Rao's ``kitchen cabinet'', present in Ayodhya on that day along with karsevaks from the Bajrang dal and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, he said. ``And who these members of Mr. Rao's kitchen cabinet are is not hidden at least from me,'' he told reporters at a RSS function in Bilaspur yesterday.

The explosion had ``become essential'' as repeated attacks by the karsevaks only resulted in the peeling of the plaster of the disputed structure, Mr. Sudarshan said. He denied suggestions that the statement was made to save the three Ministers chargesheeted in the Babri Masjid demolition case.

The RSS chief said the particular fax message now appeared to have been misplaced and that the bomb explosion was not of a ``big magnitude''.

- PTI

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