Tamil Nadu - Chennai

Chidambaram should resign: Jayalalithaa

CHENNAI: AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa has called for the resignation of Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram, charging that he was responsible for the leak of the Liberhan report.

“The only copy of the Liberhan Report available with the government was with the Union Home Minister. Obviously, he is fully and solely responsible for the leak. He has to go. He should go,” Ms. Jayalalithaa said.

She went on to allege that the only beneficiary of the leak was the Union government, and that made it a a deliberately engineered leak.

Seventeen years after it was constituted, the Liberhan Commission that probed the demolition of the Babri Masjid has indicted persons who have held offices of power at the Centre or in States, not once, but several times after the incident.

Though the report talks about the problems arising out of the politicisation of religion, it does not offer any solutions. Nor is there any action suggested against those held guilty, she charged. “In short, 17 years and 48 extensions have passed and several crore rupees have been spent for a report that will raise a lot of heat and dust without achieving any tangible results.”

But, more than the contents of the Liberhan Commission Report, what has become a hot topic of discussion in Parliament is the “leak” of some portions of the report in sections of the media, a couple of days before it was tabled in Parliament.

The dust raised in Parliament by the Liberhan report leak has sidelined crucial issues such as sugarcane price ordinance, Spectrum scam, proposed coastal regulation law (The Marine Fisheries (Regulation and Management) Bill, 2009), the Mullaiperiyar dam and several other contentious issues.

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