By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: All the letters and correspondence as well as write-ups of first Indian Prime Minister Pt Jawaharlal Nehru are already published. They include several letters he wrote to Uttar Pradesh authorities on Babri Masjid issue.
Text of his telegram he sent to the Premier of the Uttar Pradesh G B Pant on December 26, 1949 – three days after the illegal installation of idols in the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya – is available in the book The Babri Masjid –1528-2003, A Matter of National Honour, Edited by A G Noorani.
“I am disturbed at developments at Ayodhya. Earnestly hope you will personally interest yourself in this matter. Dangerous example being set there which will have bad consequences” wrote Nehru in the telegram to Pant.
In the span of four months (Dec 26, 1949-April 17, 1950) Pt Nehru wrote more or less four letters/telegrams to UP authorities expressing his displeasure over the developments in Ayodhya. Three of them were addressed to G B Pant and one to Pant’s parliamentary affairs secretary C Rajgopalachari.
The Lucknow special court looking into the title suit of the Babri Masjid has asked the Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh for last several years to present the court with the original copy of the telegram sent by Nehru to chief minister (then premier) of Uttar Pradesh regarding removal of the idols from the Babri Masjid. The UP authorities have been unable to produce the same so far, and it is feared that the correspondence has been destroyed or got lost.