Narasimha Rao Abandoned By Gandhis: Babri Blot On Legacy Unfair?
On Narasimha Rao's 95th birth anniversary, a new book - Half Lion: How PV Narasimha Rao Transformed India, by Vinay Sitapati - reopens the debate around the former prime minister and whether he should be blamed for Babri Masjid demolition in a way that he has been. Is the soft-Hindutva tag not applicable to Rao? Should the Babri Masjid shadow not fall over the reforms legacy that is credited to him? Has Rao been abandoned by Nehru-Gandhi family and thus by Congress and remembered by PM Narendra Modi, who tweeted on him today? We debate.
