Interesting Point: Whom to Blame and Whom to Credit

 

Interesting Point: Whom to Blame and Whom to Credit

Shrikant Talageri

 

A tweet sent to me just now was interesting:

https://x.com/RandomTheGuy_

-Scam was done by AAP

-Case was filed by Congress

-Investigation was done by agencies

-Kejriwal was jailed by courts

Then why are you blaming me?

https://x.com/i/status/1882597081615044774

6.41 AM · Jan 24, 2025

I fully agree: both blame and credit should always be given to the right people.

 

I wonder if there was another earlier tweet that I missed out on! Like those reconstructing proto-languages, let me try my hand at reconstructing it:

-From the days of the Mughals the fight for recovery of the Ram Janmabhoomi site was carried on by several generations of Hindus

-A Ram idol was (re)installed in the Ayodhya site on 22/11/1949, by Abhiram Das

-The courts were petitioned in 1949-1950 for the right to worship the Ram idol, by Gopal Singh Visharad and Paramahamsa Ramachandra Das

-The present Ramjanmabhoomi movement was initiated at a VHP sponsored Hindu Sammelan in Muzaffarnagar in 1983, on a call by former Congress leaders Dau Dayal Khanna and Gulzarilal Nanda

-The opening of the gates of the structure to Hindu worshippers by Shivratri on 8 March 1986, was ordered by then PM of India, Rajiv Gandhi  

-The combined suit for the ownership of the site (clubbing together all the different suits till then) in 1989 was instituted by the Allahabad High Court

-The campaign to turn the Ramjanmabhoomi issue into a national movement was initiated by the VHP in the mid-nineteen-eighties, and was given a strong push by the rathayatra organized in September 1990 by L.K.Advani

-The Ayodhya structure was stormed by Hindu volunteers/karsewaks (drawn from all strata of Hindu society (and especially from Hindu organizations like the RSS, VHP, Hindu Mahasabha, Shiv Sena, etc.) in late 1990, and the movement gained force after karsewaks were killed in police firing in Ayodhya on 30/10/1990 and 2/11/1990

-The structure was demolished on 6/12/1992 (to the vocal opposition of many BJP leaders, many of whom cried publicly and disclaimed responsibility for the demolition, while a few others, and top leaders of the Shiv Sena, VHP and others claimed credit for the demolition) by the same karsewaks.

-Detailed studies were conducted on the subject by scholars including European scholars like Koenraad Elst and Muslim archaeologists like K.K.Muhammed for the consideration of the courts

-The court cases continued for two more decades after that until the verdict was returned in favour of the Hindu side on 30/9/2010, during the regime of Congress PM Manmohan Singh, by the Allahabad High Court

-The verdict of the Allahabad High Court judgment was upheld and the construction of the Ayodhya temple was allowed on 9/11/2019 by the Supreme Court.

I only awarded a Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award in India, in 2023, to Mulayam Singh Yadav (the then CM of U.P. who had ordered the shooting of the karsewaks in 1990) and advanced the date of inauguration of the unfinished Ayodhya temple to a date before the Lok Sabha elections for obvious reasons.    

Then why are you crediting me (for the Ayodhya temple)?