Govt to table Babri report in Parliament today

New Delhi: The Justice Manmohan Singh Liberhan Commission of Inquiry report on the Babri Masjid demolition case is likely to be tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, sources have told CNN-IBN.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is on a state visit to the United States of America, called on Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee from Washington on Monday night to resolve the crisis following allegations by Opposition parties that Liberhan Commission report had been leaked to the media.

The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government is likely to go all out for damage control on the Babri Masjid demolition issue with the Prime Minister reportedly giving Pranab Mukherjee the clearance to present report in Parliament.

The Union Cabinet will hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday which will be chaired by Mukherjee in the absence of the Prime Minister.

Sources have told CNN-IBN that 68 leaders - including top Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders like former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Bhartiya Janshakti Party chief Uma Bharti and Vinay Katiyar - have been accused of making inflammatory speeches by the Liberhan Commission.

However, Vajpayee has not been indicted for the Babri demolition conspiracy.

The Commission has reportedly also called the then Uttar Pradesh chief minister and former BJP leader Kalyan Singh the main guilty party in the case, even though Justice Liberhan has not called for any punitive action.

The other leaders who have been accused include L K Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Govindacharya, Pramod Mahajan, Shanker Singh Vaghela, Vishwa Hindu Parishad leaders Acharya Giriraj Kishore, BP Singhal and Ashok Singhal.

Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh leaders H V Seshadri, K S Sudarshan and Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray have also been named for making speeches that led to communal discord.

The report has merely called for a new law to deal with people who use religion for their political ends.

The BJP is smarting from the alleged indictment by the Liberhan Commission that invoked Vajpayee and Advani's name.

With a large chunk of the report already becoming public, the report's original tabling date about a month away is most likely to be advanced.

Home Minister P Chidambaram had assured both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha on Monday that the report would be tabled in the current session of the House which concludes on December 21.

The BJP is likely to allow both Houses to function on Tuesday after they were adjourned for the day on Monday following acrimonious scenes in both Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha but a final call will be taken at the party's Parliamentary meeting in the morning.

BJP President Rajnath Singh has also called for a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the alleged leakage of the report.

Singh said that if Chidambaram has denied that the report was leaked from the Home Ministry - even though only the Home Ministry had the report - then the Home Minister should take moral responsibility in the matter.