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No need for fresh notification on Ayodhya case: BJP

Brushing aside an Opposition demand, the Uttar Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party Monday maintained there was no need to issue a fresh notification to try the 21 accused, including Union Ministers L K Advani, M M Joshi and Uma Bharati in the case related to demolition of the disputed structure at Ayodhya.

Reacting to the Opposition demand for issue of a fresh notification rectifying the technical flaws in the earlier one that led to the dropping of proceedings against accused, the BJP state unit chief Kalraj Misra said the senior party leaders were "innocent and were wrongly implicated" in the case.

If the Opposition insists on a proper debate it could be held in the state legislative assembly, he said.

Mishra reiterated the demand for a ban on the Students Islamic Movement of India alleging it was an "ally" of ISI and was "actively participating in disruptive activities."

"It is the stand of BJP that the SIMI should be banned and the government too is gathering proof of its anti-national activities", he said.

The Congress described the refusal to issue a fresh notification as a "naked cover-up" and demanded the state government perform its duty so that those who conspired in the demolition of Babri Masjid were not allowed to get away without trial.

"The decision is nothing but a naked cover-up of the implications it would have. We demand the state government perform its duty as the law of the land cannot be put in cold storage by any government," party spokesman S Jaipal Reddy told reporters.

He said the party was of the view that it was a "sacred" constitutional responsibility of the state government to see that Union Home Minister L K Advani and others were proceeded against in terms of CBI charge-sheet on the issue.

"Those who conspired to get the Babri Masjid demolished cannot be allowed to get away without trial," he said.

A Special CBI court last week had dropped proceedings against three union ministers L K Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti and 18 others till the "legal defect" in the notification constituting the court was rectified.

The high court had cited a legal defect in the government notification constituting the Special Court to try the case when it quashed the notification.

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