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Shekhar suffers double blow as Hindus stage rally for Bahri Mosque handover
NEW DELHI. Apr 4: Indian Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar suffered a double blow today losing legislative ■majority In a key province and suflertng a split in another as hundreds of thousands of •Hindus assembled have in a mas stve show of strength to de
mand the handover of Babri Mosque, reports AFP.
His Janata Dal-S (People's Party-Socialist) was reduced to a minority in the assembly of Uttar Pradesh state when former Premier Rajtv Gandhi s Congress (I) Party ended its vital support for the provincial
government.
The 425 member legislature was terminated less than halfway through its five-year term, paving the way for fresh polls tn the electorally crucial northern state of 110 million people. India's most populous
Mulayam Singh Yadav, a
close lieutenant of Shekhar will remain as caretaker Chief Minister until the polls are held simultaneously with May elections to the federal par liament. the Press Trust of India (PH) said
The Janata Dal-S suffered another blow minutes after wards when its unit in the western state of Gujarat split away to form a regional party
Gujarat Chief Minister Chi-manbhal Patel announced the decision in the city of Ahmed abad paving the way for a state level alliance with the Congress (I) to stay on tn power. PH said
The developments were widely seen as the death knell far any lingering hopes of a realignment between the Janata Dal-S and die Congress (I) at the national level.
Yadav and Patel are both key players In national politics and took much of the credit for helping Shekhar becanie Prime Minister in November 1990 with Congress (!) support.
Thal alliance proved tenuous and finally collapsed In March, when. Shekhar re signed In a huff and called fresh general elections
He quit after Congress (I) MPs started a boycott of Par liament to proicst police surveillance at Gandhi's rest dence. leaving the minority government stranded in a Parliament dominated by opposition parties.
The Janata Dal-S pul a brave face on today s events, which further weakened its fragile organisation
'Hindus will not suffer any more humiliation. No force on this earth can prevent a Rama temple from being built In Ay-odhya.' Hindu politician Madan Lal Khurana told the gathering in preliminary remarks
He was greeted with thun derous applause and wild whistling by the crowd, which a Vlshwa Hindu Parlshad (VHP) leader. Purshottam Narain Singh, said was the biggest public meeting of Hindus since India's Indepen dence in 1947
The entire rally site was a sea of saffron, the colour of Hinduism. A police officer said at least 300.000 people had collected for the meeting, but Singh said the figure was more and by noon would touch 2 5 million. |
"We want lo give the message that Hindus want a government which will let them (onslrucl a temple of their choice tn Ayodhya ' Singh said
He said Hindus swarming to the rally had comr from al) parts of India, from Christian
Majority stales in the far northeast to the sparsely-populated Lakshadweep islands tn the Arabian Sea.
"Hindus realise that the biggest stumbling block to a Rama temple (at the mosque site) is the government." he added. In reference to repeated government declarations Hun no harm would be allowed io the Muslim shrine