‘Kalyan Singh did what he did’ on Babri razing: PM

July 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh today said that he is ready to face charges levelled against him in the Liberhan Commission report. Speaking to reporters here, Singh said, "I am ready to face whatever charges have been levelled against me.

July 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Kalyan Singh, former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Thursday said he was ready to face and answer every question if the report of the Liberhan Commission that probed the 1992 demolition of Babri Masjid was tabled in parliament. Now the report has come to the government and if the government wants then it can table the report in this session of parliament.

May 10th, 2009 DEHRADUN - Senior Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Sunday denied having played any role in the decision taken over getting close to Bharatiya Janata Party's rebel leader Kalyan Singh. "I want to make this clear that I have nothing to do with the decision taken on Kalyan Singh," Amar Singh said here.

May 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Targeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his statements on Bofors payoff suspect Ottavio Quattrocchi, Samajwadi Party (SP) general secretary Amar Singh Monday said the party would not 'guarantee' Manmohan Singh occupying the top post again after the polls. Amar Singh also said the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) partners would decide on a prime ministerial candidate after the Lok Sabha polls.

May 2nd, 2009 LUCKNOW - Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh Saturday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of keeping him in the 'dark' about the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992 and hatching a 'conspiracy' against him. 'It was a conspiracy against me by the BJP leaders.

May 2nd, 2009 LUCKNOW - Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh on Saturday blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for keeping him in "dark" about Babri Masjid demolition in 1992. Claiming that the BJP had hatched a conspiracy against him to throw him out of the party, Singh said, "Senior BJP leaders said no demolition will take place.

May 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Rebel Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)leader Kalyan Singh Saturday sought to distance himself from Babri Masjid demolition in Uttar Pradesh saying that the party kept him in the 'dark' about razing of the mosque in 1992 when he was the chief minister. 'It was a conspiracy against me by the BJP leaders.

March 6th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's bonhomie with rebel Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kalyan Singh seems to be one of the major stumbling blocks in its poll talks with the Congress, besides their discord on seat sharing, a Congress party source indicated. The Congress released a list of 24 candidates for Uttar Pradesh after the Samajwadi Party announced candidates for 64 of the state's 80 Lok Sabha seats.

February 21st, 2009 RAMPUR - Samajwadi Party leader Mohammed Azam Khan Friday flayed general secretary Amar Singh, but without naming him, on charges of hurting Muslims by teaming up with former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kalyan Singh. Khan, the estranged national general secretary of the party, alleged in a statement that 'some people who obtained Rajya Sabha membership with our support are busy tarnishing my image and harming the party organisation'.

February 6th, 2009 BHOPAL - Narayan Tripathi, a former president of Samajwadi Party's Madhya Pradesh unit, has resigned from the party's primary membership to protest its growing ties with former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kalyan Singh. He said in a statement Saturday that he was quitting as he was hurt at party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's new ties with Kalyan Singh, who, according to Tripathi, was not only responsible but also involved in the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992.

February 3rd, 2009 LUCKNOW - Rebel Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh Wednesday said he had owned 'moral responsibility' for the 1992 demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. Kalyan Singh said this in a statement that is widely being seen as an attempt to help Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav to wriggle out of the raging controversy over the recent bonhomie between the two otherwise ideologically opposed politicians.

February 2nd, 2009 LUCKNOW - Alarmed at the resentment within the Samajwadi Party over its new ties with former BJP leader Kalyan Singh, party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Tuesday held a meeting with 100-odd Muslim clerics who gave him a clean chit. Party general secretary Amar Singh went to the Darul-Uloom Deoband seminary to meet clerics there.

February 1st, 2009 LUCKNOW - Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Monday put up a stout defence for new friend Kalyan Singh, the rebel BJP leader who was Uttar Pradesh chief minister during the 1992 razing of the Babri Masjid, and said the association would not be a hurdle in the 'prospective alliance' with the Congress. Declaring that his association with Kalyan Singh was not a 'political arrangement' but a 'bond of friendship', Mulayam Singh said at a press conference: 'The move is aimed at weakening the BJP; since fighting against communal forces has been my sworn motto, I will not hesitate to induct even bigger BJP leaders if they were to leave and express their desire to join me.' He denied that Muslim leaders in the Samajwadi Party were disillusioned with his equation with a leader identified as a 'Hindutva mascot' and the man who presided over the demolition of the Babri Masjid.

January 28th, 2009 GORAKHPUR - Defending the Samajwadi Party's new ties with Kalyan Singh, its general secretary Amar Singh Thursday said even senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani is welcome in the party provided he apologised for the destruction of the Babri Masjid.

January 19th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh, who presided over the razing of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya, Tuesday said he had a 'permanent solution' to the dispute after parting ways with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). 'I feel that a permanent solution to the Ayodhya temple tangle lies in an amicable settlement,' said Singh who had once proudly proclaimed 'credit' for ensuring the December 1992 demolition of the 16th century Babri mosque in the ancient temple town by militant Hindus.