NEW DELHI, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- India's main opposition party leaders Monday accused the ruling Congress party of selectively leaking an investigation into the 1992 demolition of a mosque.
The parliament session had to be adjourned after an uproar over a newspaper report saying a commission appointed to look into the Dec. 6, 1992, demolition of the Babri Masjid mosque had implicated some senior members of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, the Press Trust of India reported.
The demolition led to Hindu-Muslim communal riots.
The newspaper report said the commission led by Justic M.S. Liberhan had implicated BJP leaders including former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the party's parliamentary leader L.K. Advani, PTI reported.
The Liberhan commission report presented to the government has not yet been made public.
Advani said he was "stunned" and "shocked to see that the report has been leaked," the BBC reported. He said at the time of the demolition, he had called the incident the "saddest day of my life."
BJP spokesman Rajiv Pratap Rudy said the Congress party had "selectively" leaked the report before first placing it before parliament to draw people's attention from rising prices and corruption.
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