With BJP leaders celebrating the acquittal on Wednesday of all 32 people accused in the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992, opposition figures have begun expressing dismay over the verdict. The accused included senior BJP leaders L.K. Advani and M.M. Joshi.
Jignesh Mevani, independent MLA for Vadgam in Gujarat and a vehement critic of the BJP, tweeted "actually no one demolished Babri Masjid". Mevani tweeted, "1992 and 2019... And in 2020: today, actually no one demolished #BabriMasjid. Like Kapil Mishra is in reality a great messenger of peace, Babri demolition and Rath Yatra was in reality just a fake news. All media stories before 2014 was fake news, only post-BJP media is truth.”
CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury described the CBI court's verdict as a "complete travesty of justice". Yechury tweeted, "A complete travesty of Justice. All charged with criminal conspiracy to demolish Babri Masjid acquitted. It self imploded? The Constitution Bench headed by then CJI had said that demolition was an “egregious” violation of law. Now this verdict! Shame."
B. Srivatsa, national campaign in-charge of the Youth Congress, questioned the court's observation there was "no pre-planned conspiracy" behind demolition of Babri Masjid.
Srivatsa tweeted, "Sangh Parivar Leaders took out a Rath yatra, collected shovels & bricks, assembled thousand of people & shouted 'Ek Dhakka Aur do, Babri Masjid Tod do’ But apparently all this was not a pre-planned conspiracy! It took 28 years for the courts to say #BabriMasjid fell on its own."
