Kalyan Singh ready to face charges in Babri mosque case

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 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 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 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.

April 19th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday rejected Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad's charge that the Congress too was to blame for Babri Masjid, saying the party 'can't be blamed' for the 1992 mosque demolition. 'We can't be blamed,' the prime minister told a press conference in Amin Gaon in Guwahati ahead of addressing a poll rally.

April 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI/PATNA - Senior Congress leader and Union Minister Kapil Sibal on Saturday reacted sharply and with dismay to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad's remarks that the Congress was equally responsible for the demolition of the Babri mosque. He said his party was hurt by Yadav's remarks.

March 23rd, 2009 LUCKNOW - Bharatiya Janashakti Party leader Uma Bharti Sunday asked rebel Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh to apologise for expressing regret over the demolition of the Babri Masjid. Uma Bharti, who was suspended from the BJP in 2004 and then expelled in 2005, said she was upset over Kalyan Singh regretting the demolition of the 16th century mosque in Ayodhya in 1992.

February 4th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Samajwadi Party MP Shafiqur Rehman Burke Thursday said Muslims would never pardon party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav for his growing bonhomie with rebel Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kalyan Singh, who was Uttar Pradesh chief minister when the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya was razed in 1992. Burke, Lok Sabha member from Moradabad, said several other prominent Muslim leaders in the Samajwadi Party felt the same way.

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 24th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Samajwadi Party's embrace of former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kalyan Singh, who was the Uttar Pradesh chief minister when the Babri mosque was razed in 1992, has sparked discontent in the party. Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav claims that his affinity with Kalyan Singh will not affect his goodwill among Muslims, whose support was responsible for taking his party's tally to an all time high of 39 in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections.

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.