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`PMO phone call wanted PTI to go slow on Ayodhya'

By Our Staff Reporter

KOZHIKODE, JAN. 28. The Indian Newspaper Society president and Press Trust of India Chairman, M.P. Veerandrakumar, said today that a telephone from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) on December 5, 1992 had asked the PTI Editor "to go slow on Ayodhya. ''

Speaking at a seminar on media and society organised by the Malabar Chamber of Commerce in Kozhikode, Mr. Veerandrakumar said he was baffled at that time because nothing untoward happened at Ayodhya that day. However, the Babri Masjid was demolished on December 6, he said and suspected that the ``PMO was aware of the incident''.

Mr. Veerandrakumar, who was then PTI Chairman, said there were also "pressures from the PMO" to play down the demolition incident. But he had issued orders to report the incident in detail.

At the time of the Babri Masjid demolition, P.V. Narasimha Rao was the Prime Minister and Kalyan Singh was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.

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