From correspondents in Delhi, India, 08:02 PM IST

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) demanded Wednesday that all cases related to the Babri mosque razing must be clubbed before the Supreme Court and it should be urged to give an early verdict.

Participating in the debate on the Liberhan Commission report in the Rajya Sabha, CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury said the demolition of the mosque in Ayodhya in 1992 was 'a criminal act and the worst expression of vote-bank politics'.

'The report legally confirms what had been internalized that it was a pre-planned action executed to perfection,' Yechury said.

He said the BJP's then Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh had spoken approvingly of the destruction by saying that 'kar sevaks' did in hours what contractors would have taken much more time to accomplish.

'The government's ATR (Action Taken Report) in the Liberhan report does not inspire confidence. If the government is sincere, it should intervene through its judicial officers to get the demolition cases clubbed together and move the Supreme Court for an early verdict,' he said.

Hindu mobs pulled down the 16th century Babri mosque in Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh, triggering widespread communal violence that left hundreds dead.

(Staff Writer, © IANS)