Why Did The Court Not Take Note Of The VHP’s ‘Intention’?
The VHP had not been founded when the first of the civil court cases were filed in January 1950 by a Ayodhya priest seeking the right to pray inside the locked-up shrine. The RSS too was uninvolved at this stage, and the entire plan was hatched and executed by Hindu Mahasabha leaders.
After having launched the political agitation in the mid 1980s, the VHP decided to become a party in the civil case. Deoki Nandan Agarwal, a former High Court judge, also VHP vice president in July 1989, showed the way. He petition in the Allahabad High Court on behalf of the idol as its “next best friend” was accepted and the VHP became a major party.
The Supreme Court verdict stated that Agarwal unambiguously sought “an injunction against interference in the construction of a new temple after the demolition (sic) of the existing…