Ayodhya Verdict Became Right As Both Sides Accepted It: P Chidambaram

After launching party colleague Salman Khurshid's book "Sunrise over Ayodhya - Nationhood in our Times", Congress leader P Chidambaram termed the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992 as a "terrible wrong" that debased our Constitution.

Congress leader P Chidambaram on Wednesday said that only because both the sides accepted the Supreme Court verdict on Ayodhya, it became a right judgement and not the other way around.

After launching party colleague Salman Khurshid's book "Sunrise over Ayodhya - Nationhood in our Times", he termed the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992 as a "terrible wrong" that debased our Constitution.

Party colleague Digvijaya Singh said in the country's history, vandalism and destruction of temples happened even before the advent of Islam, but an atmosphere has been created where it has been told that such acts came with Muslim rulers and that is why they are responsible for it.

Mr Singh also alleged that LK Advani's "Rath Yatra" was not to unite society, but to divide it and wherever he went, he sowed the seeds of hatred and created that atmosphere of sectarianism in the country.