NEW DELHI, DEC 20: Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh chief K S Sudarshan today disowned before the Liberhan Ayodhya Commission his recent statement that a bomb brought down the disputed structure at Ayodhya, but attributed the explosion theory to four others including former MP Nirmala Deshpande and a senior Maharashtra Congress leader.Deposing before the Commission, probing the sequence of events leading to demolition of the disputed structure on December six, 1992, Sudarshan said he had only quoted the views expressed by Deshpande and that the statement was wrongly attributed to him.However, Deshpande on Monday told mediapersons that the mosque seemed to have fallen on its side from the base and that it looked as if experts had been hired for demolition.Deshpande, who has been summoned by the Commission on January 30, did not speak of a bomb explosion.The Commission had on December 12 issued summons to the RSS chief in the wake of newspaper reports quoting him that the demolition was caused from within the structure about which the "inner circles of the then Union Cabinet were aware".Sudarshan stood by his statement that a senior Congress leader from Maharashtra had sent a fax message in Marathi to the then Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao about the incident.The message, according to him, read "whatever is cooked in our kitchen cabinet, I am in the know of it. The Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena may have been involved in the December six event, but our kitchen cabinet was also involved in it". However, he did not name the said Congress leader.The RSS chief also told the Commission that only yesterday he received a letter from one Kunwar Dharamvir Singh Rawal, national president of a political party registered with the Election Commission that the structure was brought down by an explosion carried out by a Muslim - Anees Ahmad Gehlot.Gehlot had gone to Ayodhya in the guise of a kar sevak and planted three brick-shaped explosive devices inside the structure, Sudarshan said quoting the letter of Rawal and urged the Commission to summon him.Gehlot, who was murdered in 1997, was president of Muslim Rajput Sabha, he told the Commission quoting from the letter of Rawal who belongs to Federation of Sabhas.He said that Rawal had also sent the letter to Lok Sabha Speaker G M C Balayogi giving details of Gehlot's role in bringing down the structure.Gehlot, an advocate by profession, was resident of village Dehra in Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh.Gehlot always boasted of his bold act and used to repeat in his speeches in the Rajput Sabha meetings, Sudarshan told the Commission quoting Rawal's letter.Gehlot did it because he believed that the mosque built by Babar at Ayodhya was against the Koranic laws, he quoted from Rawal's letter.Regarding the Maharashtra Congress leader's fax message to the then Prime Minister, the RSS chief said he saw the fax message sometime in March/April, 1993 but did not make it public as it was not signed by the person concerned and he did not have direct or indirect link with that person, he said."Last year, I chanced to meet him at a common friend's place. I asked him if he had sent the said fax message and he said "yes", Sudarshan told the Commission.The said the Congress leader had also acknowledged having sent another fax message to Rao advising him not to dismiss the four BJP-ruled state governments after the demolition, he said.The RSS chief said that only this year the said Congress leader gave him "permission" to make this information public on the condition of anonymity.Sudarshan said he had mentioned this thing on October 2 in his speech here, again at Nagpur on October 7 and in several subsequent rallies but the newspapers did not pay any heed to it.It was only because the Ayodhya issue had paralysed the proceedings in Parliament that the Press reported it, though in a distorted form, he said.
