Rao misjudged Babri situation: Home Minister

New Delhi, Dec 8 : Amidst noisy slogan shouting, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said former Congress Prime Minister Narasimha Rao had misjudged the Babri situation in 1992 by trusting the BJP's lies, leading to the demolition of the structure by the saffron brigade.

'Narasimha Rao paid a price for misjudgment. Congress paid a price for misjudgment of Rao based on BJP's lies,' Chidambaram said amid uproarious scenes in Parliament over the debate on Liberhan Commission report on Babri demolition.

'Only issue before the house is who demolished Babri. Every promise was broken by then UP chief minister,' he said adding that then UP chief minister Kalyan Singh had lied to the centre and the Supreme Court.

'The report holds Sangh parivar responsible (for the demolition). BJP leadership broke every promise,' said Chidambaram, adding that RSS controlled every aspect of the temple movement.

He said BJP leader L K Advani had access to every information about the demolition.

The BJP MPs created a ruckus earlier in Parliament and shouted 'Jai Jai Atalji' as Chidambaram spoke.

The BJP members were furious when a Congress member called Atal Bihari Vajpayee 'neech' (low).

The Liberhan Commission report on Babri demolition is baseless and communal and should be scrapped, BJP leader Sushma Swaraj told the Parliament Tuesday earlier.

Participating in the two-day debate on the report in Lok Sabha on its second day, BJP leader Sushma Swaraj said: 'The report is distortion of facts. Every word of the report is communal. This report would sow the seeds of riots. It also denounces the Muslim organisations.'

'This is not a fair and just report. We dismiss this report,' she said.

The Liberhan commission report indicts 68 people for the demolition of the Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992 in Ayodhya.

Among the indicted are former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, BJP leaders L K Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and the then Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh.