Letter to the President of India after the demolition of Babri Masjid

Dear Sir,

We are approaching you to express our deep shock and anguish over the demolition of the Babri Masjid on 6th December by Kar Sevaks organized by the BJP-VHP combine, and to seek your immediate intervention to restore the faith of our country. The participation of some Members of Parliament, either directly or indirectly, in the proceedings leading to the demolition is an extremely alarming development. We are also dismayed that the Government, despite several statements to the contrary, was unable to take adequate steps to protect the Mosque.

In the light of the possible implications of this catastrophic incident, we demand that the Government be directed:

To arrest those involved in the proceedings leading to the demolition of the Mosque, particularly Ashok Singhal, leader of the VHP, Swami Vamadev, Chairman of the Margdarshak Mandal, L.K. Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi, leaders of the BJP.
To stop the construction already started by the VHP and then to reconstruct the Mosque.
To declare the Mosque as a National Protected Monument.
To take over the entire area.
To take steps to remove the idols lodged in the Mosque.
To take steps to expel those Members of Parliament who were party to the incidents at Ayodhya on 6th December for violating their constitutional obligations.

We once again seek your immediate action.

Signed by:
K.N. Panikkar, A. Aziz, A. Ramachandran, A. Vasudevan, A. Rahman, Abhijeet Chatterjee, Abhik Sarkar, Abhilasha Kumari, Adil Jussawala, Agneya, Aijaz Ahmad, Ajanta Dev, Ajay Tyagi, Ajit Caur, Ajit Choudhury, Ajit Kumar, Ali Sardar Jafri, Alok Dhanwa, Alok K. Jha, Alpana Khare, Amit Barua, Amita Dhanda, Amitabh, Amitava Das, Amiya Bagchi, Amjad Ali Khan, Amol Palekar, Amaresh Ganguli, Anamika, Anand Patwardhan, Anil Chandra, Anil Gangal, Anil Kumar Singh, Anita Sood, Anita Verma, Ania Loomba, Anjana Mehra, Anjolie Ela Menon, Anjum Mukherjee, Anjum Singh, Ankita Shukla, Anuradha Chenoy, Anuradha Kapur, Anup Sethi, Anuradha Marwah Roy, Apala Panda, Arpana Caur, Arpita Singh, Arun Aditya, Arun Kamal, Asad Zaidi, Asghar Ali Engineer, Ashish Deb, Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Ashok Bose, Ashok Jain, Ashok Majumdar, Ashok Mitra, Ashok Vajpayee, Ashutosh Dube, Atul Aneja, Atul Tiwari, B.M. Mahapatra, B.P. Sharma, B.T. Kaul, Badrinarayan, Baren Roy, Basudev Chatterjee, Bhagat Singh Soni, Bhagatsingh Soni, Bhagwat Rawat, Bhanwar Gopal, Bharati Jagannathan, Bhisham Sahni, Bhushan Kumar, Bindia Thapar, Benoy Sarkar, Bishakha De Sarkar, Bodhisatva, Brij Srivastava, Brijesh Sharma, Bulbul Sharma, C. Rajamohan, C.P. Bhambri, Champa Vaid, Chandan Singh, Chandrabhushan, Chandrakant Devtale, Chandralekha, Charu Gpta, Chitra Palekar, D.L.N. Reddy, Dadi Pudumjee, Dadiba Pundole, Debashish Chatterjee, Deepa Nair, Deepak Shinde, Deviprasad Mishra, Dharmendra Kumar, Dhruv Gosh, Dhruv Raina, Dinesh Abrol, Dinesh Khanna, Dinu Kashyap, Dunu Roy, Ekant Shrivastava, Fahimuddin Dagar, Farah Yasmin Abdullah, Farida Khan, Fayaz Khan, G. Aravindan, G.P. Deshpande, G.R. Santosh, G.S. 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