The threat held out by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) to start construction of the Ram Mandir on 15 March at the site of the demolished Babri Masjid, in utter disregard of the already initiated judicial process, is reminiscent of the fascist tactics that led to the  shameful vandalism of 6 December 1992. Following a nationwide Ram Japa Yatra, the VHP is now bringing lakhs of kar sevaks to Ayodhya to effect the construction of the temple, to be put together from the mass of materials already assembled near the proposed site in complicity with a pliant administration. Just as at the time of the demolition of the mosque, the Sangh Parivar is going to present a fait accompli once again before the nation.

We therefore appeal to all secular parties to exert pressure on the government in the all-Party meeting, to immediately stop the congregation of the VHP karsevaks at Ayodhya.

Signed by:
K.N. Panikkar, Kamleshwar, Rajendra Yadav, Shyam Benegal, Mahesh Bhatt, Nikhil Wagle, Sudhir Mishra, Sajjid Rasheed, Sagar Sarhadi, Vivan Sundaram, Geetanjali Shree, Sudhir Chandra, M.K. Raina, Geeta Kapur, Praful Bidwai, Prabhat

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Patnaik, Teesta Setalvad, Shabnam Hashmi, C.P. Chandrasekhar, Kumkum Sangari, D.N. Jha, Zoya Hasan, Irfan Habib, Sadanand Menon, Shamshad, Gautam Navlakha, Humra Qureshi, Kumar Shahani, Chanchal Chauhan, Arjun Dev, Ibbar Rabbi, Rahul Verma, Amar Farooqi, Abhijit Sen, Ali Javed, Madhu Prasad, Javed Alam, Anil Nauriya, Anwar Jamal, Jayati Ghosh, Lima Kanungo, Saba Khan, Narendra Sharma, Imrana Qadeer, Javed Anand, K.M. Shrimali, Shireen Moosvi, Madangopal Singh, Malini Bhattacharya, Mihir Bhattacharya, Parthiv Shah, Saeed Mirza, Rati Bartholomew, Romi Khosla, Amiya Bagchi, Jasodhara Bagchi, Deb Kumar Bose, Sanat Bose, Bijon Chaudhury, Prakash Karmakar, Gautam Ghosh, P.N. Roy, R.K. Poddar, Mazhar Husain, Vithal Rajan, Raghu, Rana, Raju, A. Murali , Manjari Katju, Sonia Gupta, Kadeer Zaman, B. Narsinga Rao, Magni Tabbasum, R.S. Sharma, N.D. Jayaprakash, Biswamoy Pati, G.P. Sharma, V.M. Jha, V.K. Jain, Lata Singh, R.C. Thakran, B.P. Sahu, Suraj Bhan, D. Mandal, H.C. Satyarthi, Badri Raina, Krishna Sen Gupta, Kumi Chandra, Ram Rahman, Indira Chandrasekhar, Anil Chandra, Girish Bhai Patel, D.N. Pathak, Gautam Thakkar, Father Cedric Prakash, Indu Bhai Jani, Shiba George, Hanif Lakdawala, H.C. Suresh, Justice Rawani, Rajendra Prasad