KAPIL SIBAL LYING IN COURT: SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY

Dr Subramanian Swamy has been the prime mover in seeking a court verdict on the Ram Janmabhumi. He has several arguments to offer in the Ram temple-Babri mosque case, which came up for hearing in the Supreme Court on 5 December. The Hindus, argued the BJP leader and MP, had a valid claim to the site in Ayodhya, believed to be the birthplace of Lord Rama. As the Supreme Court has set the next date of hearing for 8 February 2018, Swamy says he is hopeful of a victory for the Nirmohi Akhara, the Hindu litigant. Excerpts: Q: The JNU recently cancelled an event where you were scheduled to talk about the Ram temple in Ayodhya. You have said they were afraid of your powerful arguments. What are those powerful arguments? A: It is now established that there was a pre-existing temple, and a mosque was built on it by using parts of that temple as its construction material. This was scientifically confirmed when the Allahabad High Court, on the direction of the Supreme Court, asked the Archaeological Survey of India for a thorough analysis of whether there was a preexisting temple and the ASI assigned this task to two of our best known archaeologists, B.B. Lal and K.K. Mohammad. After two years, they gave a unanimous report, after using the most advanced scientific methods. Their principal conclusion was that below where the masjid stood, the ground still exhibited a very large Vaishnav temple and that many of its parts were indeed used for building the Babri Masjid. The Allahabad High Court has accepted this and it is not under challenge in the Supreme Court.

Second is that the Supreme Court constitutional bench of 1994 had asked the then (P.V.) Narasimha Rao government