Sonia writes to PM

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, JUNE 8. The Congress president, Ms. Sonia Gandhi, today urged the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, to remove the shortcomings in the Babri Masjid demolition case notification since no action has been taken so far on it.

In a letter to Mr. Vajpayee, she said the CBI had sent a communication more than a month ago to the Department of Personnel and Training recommending that the Centre advise the Uttar Pradesh Government to rectify the infirmities in the notification under which the case was transferred to a Special Court and because of which it had been held up.

She said there were reports that no action had been taken either by the Centre or by the State. ``If true, this is indeed very distressing. I strongly urge you to kindly initiate the necessary steps to remove the shortcomings in the earlier notification of 1993, so that justice is allowed to take its own course.''

Releasing a copy of the letter to the media, the party spokesman, Mr Anand Sharma, said if the government had not chosen to act so far it meant that the BJP Government in U.P. and the BJP-led NDA Government at the Centre were ``subverting the due process of law''.

The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High court had referred the matter to U.P. Government while quashing the chargesheet against several people including the three Union Ministers - Mr. L.K. Advani, Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi and Ms. Uma Bharti - on technical grounds. The court had made it clear that the technical infirmity could be rectified by issuing a fresh notification. The party spokesman said today was the last day for the Government to issue fresh notification.

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