February
5,
2003
Press
Statement
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
Ayodhya
Issue
--
No
Handing
Over
of
Acquired
Land
Till
Court
Verdict
The
Polit
Bureau
of
the
CPI(M)
expresses
its
deep
concern
at
the
fact
that,
once
again,
the
Ayodhya
dispute
is
being
brought
into
focus,
without
waiting
for
the
judicial
verdict,
through
a
series
of
diabolical
moves
and
subterfuge.
Following
the
similar
whipping
up
of
passions
undertaken
by
the
Vishwa
Hindu
Parishad
in
February-March
last
year,
aided
actively
by
the
Vajpayee
government
whose
Attorney
General
argued
for
allowing
a
"symbolic
pooja"
on
the
disputed
site,
the
Supreme
Court
had
ruled
that
there
would
be
"no
transfer
of
acquired
property
until
the
final
order
of
the
Court".
Despite
this,
once
again,
the
self-appointed
interlocutors
like
the
Kanchi
Shankaracharya
are
busy
advancing
so-called
solutions
which
are
nothing
but
a
rehash
of
the
VHP's
demands.
The
demand
for
handing
over
to
the
VHP
and
the
Ram
Janmabhoomi
Nyas,
40
of
the
67
acres
of
the
acquired
land
is
only
to
facilitate
the
construction
on
the
basis
of
a
blueprint
wherein
the
sanctum-sanctorum
of
the
temple
would
be
located
at
the
heart
of
the
Babri
Masjid
structure.
Construction
work
beginning
in
any
portion
of
the
acquired
land
with
the
original
site
plan
is
part
of
a
carefully
grafted
game
of
attrition
wherein,
step
by
step,
the
temple
would
be
constructed
circumventing
the
law.
This
is
nothing
but
an
effort
to
make
the
temple
construction
a
fait
accompli
before
the
Court
verdict
comes.
The
Polit
Bureau
of
the
CPI(M)
warns
the
Vajpayee
government
that
any
attempt
to
subvert
the
rule
of
law
and
the
judicial
process
will
not
be
tolerated
by
the
Indian
people.
No
measure
or
step
must
be
taken
till
the
final
order
of
the
Courts.
Given
the
earlier
track
record
of
betrayal
of
assurances
to
the
country
and
the
judiciary
by
the
VHP,
the
BJP
leadership
and
its
state
government
in
Uttar
Pradesh
at
the
time
of
the
demolition
of
the
Babri
Masjid,
there
can
be
no
question
of
allowing
self-proclaimed
representatives
of
religious
communities
to
try
to
circumvent
the
law
and
get
the
State
to
sanction
it.