Natural Protection

party the power to impose an emergency, which Indira Gandhi used in 1975 to declare one, thereby gaining the authority to take arbitrary actions. Similarly, if the BJP comes to power and declares an emergency, they would gain unlimited powers under the same constitution, enabling them to do whatever they want against Muslims. I replied, “Such a kind of holocaust is not repeatable in human history. You cannot drop an atomic bomb again and again.” This means such a grave event is never repeated. You can drop an atomic bomb only once; it is not possible to drop one repeatedly. I stated that, based on this principle, I had the courage to declare on December 4, 1992, when the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya was demolished, that no other mosque in this country would be demolished. People regarded the December 6, 1992 incident as a comma. I said that it is not a comma, but a full stop. And you know that this is exactly what happened. The demolishers had a list of many more mosques they intended to target, but the law of nature erased their list like a wrong letter. It was no longer possible for them to repeat December 6 with any other mosque. When the Babri Mosque was demolished on December 6, 1992, Shiv Sena leader Mr. Bal Thackeray said he was proud of those who brought it down. However, in newspapers from the same month, Bal Thackeray’s statement appeared stating that neither a mosque nor a temple should be built on the site of the Babri Mosque. Instead, both communities should be given land to build a mosque and a temple in a more confined area, and a national memorial should be built where the Babri Mosque once stood. In this regard,