After Muslim clerics voiced their annoyance over Mulayam Singh Yadav giving audience to VHP leaders, it is party’s national general secretary and one of the most powerful ministers in UP cabinet Md Azam Khan questioned as why Samajwadi Party leadership was keen for mediation in Ram janmabhoomi Babri Masjid issue when the matter is sub-judice.
In a strongly worded statement Azam Khan said Mulayam Singh Yadav had built his image among Muslims after a long struggle. "I believe he would not allow anyone to malign this image now," Azam Khan said in his statement here on Monday. The two-hour long meeting between Samajwadi Party leadership comprising Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son Akhilesh and top VHP leaders on Saturday had angered Muslims who believe that Hindu leaders had approached Yadav father and son duo with a request to mediate in the RJB-Babri Mosque issue.
"Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav postponed his press conference on development issue for almost 2 hours and media projected the whole issue reminding the Muslims about the dark days of 1992 when frenzied crowd of Hindu zealots demolished Babri Masjid," Azam Kha wrote in his two-page letter ''The act of the SP leaders has hurt the sentiments of the Muslims and talks between the VHP and Mulayam Singh Yadav has sent a wrong signal to the community,'' Khan said.
He said VHP leaders including Ashok Singhal could be termed as a criminal for demolishing the Babri mosque and now the Samajwadi Party leaders have given audience to the same criminal and their this act has hurt the sentiments of Muslims. Questioning that how could Mulayam Singh Yadav act as a facilitator in the Ram Janambhoomi and Babri Masjid issue when on December 6,1992, the frenzy people demolished the mosque and set up a temple there.
'' When the matter is sub-judice and no new construction could be carried out in that area till court orders the same how could Ashok Singhal ask Mulayam to intervene in this issue," he said. Azam Khan said it is now a history that India witnessed RDX and AK-47 after demolition of Babri Mosque. Innocent people lost their lives in communal strife that rocked country time and again and for this those people should be held responsible who demolished the Mosque.