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The former Prime Minister, P.V. Narasimha Rao, exchanging greetings with Sudha Murthy in Bangalore on Tuesday. The former ISRO Chairman, U.R. Rao (left), the former Law Minister, Haranahalli Ramaswamy, the director of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mathoor Krishnamurthy, and the former MP, Sachidanandaswamy, are seen. — Photo: K. Gopinathan
BANGALORE, JULY 27. The former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao has finished writing a book on the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, and it is ready for publication. Disclosing this in an informal chat with presspersons here on Tuesday, the octogenarian leader said he was working on the second volume of his book, "The Insider". It would deal with the "controversies of the Seventies and Eighties" and cover the period up to his becoming the Prime Minister in May 1991. Mr. Narasimha Rao is in the city since Monday in connection with the release of the Kannada translation of his "The Insider". The Director of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore, Mathoor Krishnamurthy, has translated Mr. Narasimha Rao's book. The Governor, T.N. Chaturvedi, will release the translated version at the Banquet Hall of the Vidhana Soudha on Wednesday. The Union Home Minister, Shivaraj Patil, the Chief Minister, N. Dharam Singh, the former Prime Minister, H.D. Deve Gowda, and the former Chief Justice of India, M.N. Venkatachalaiah, will participate in the function.
Next book in six months
Earlier, during an interaction with intellectuals, Mr. Narasimha Rao told K.E. Radhakrishna, Principal of Surana College (Basavanagudi), that the second part of "The Insider" would be released in about six months. When a journalist asked him whether the second volume would refer to controversies, Mr. Narasimha Rao remarked, "How can any book be written avoiding controversies?" Asked if the book would cover the period of his Prime Ministership (1991-96), Mr. Narasimha Rao said there were no controversies at that time. But when he was reminded about the demolition of the structure, he spoke on the book on the demolition of the structure. Mr. Narasimha Rao did not agree with the historian Suryanath U. Kamath that his book "The Insider" should have been autobiographical. It was the biography of the people of the country, Mr. Narasimha Rao said.
Politics
On whether he had any advice to offer to the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, Mr. Narasimha Rao said, "He was my Finance Minister." About the political situation in the country, he said he was not aware of what was happening. After a pause, he said there were many ways of solving a problem and added that it all depended on a given situation. On whether the Prime Minister (Manmohan Singh) could also hold the post of the All India Congress Committee President, Mr. Narasimha Rao said no principle was involved in it. He himself had held the two positions when he was Prime Minister.
Decried
The former Law Minister, Haranahalli Ramaswamy, who welcomed the gathering, decried the tendency to forget those who had served the country with distinction in the past. He referred to the case of Mr. Narasimha Rao who had been instrumental in liberalising the economy. If there were information technology giants in the country today, the credit should go to, among others, Mr. Narasimha Rao for his policies. The former Chief Justice of the Mysore High Court, Nittoor Srinivasa Rao, the former Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman, U.R. Rao, the former Chief Minister, M. Veerappa Moily, writers G.S. Shivarudrappa, HamPa Nagarajaiah, Kamala HamPaNa, L.S. Seshagiri Rao, Sudha Murthy, Baragur Ramachandrappa, the former IPS officer P.S. Ramanujam, a scholar in Sanskrit, Lakshmithatachariar, violinist L. Subramaniam, singer Kavitha Krishnamurthy, L. Hanumanthaiah, MLC, and the former member of the Rajya Sabha, Sachidanandaswamy, attended the interaction.
Common script
Mr. Narasimha Rao advocated the need for adopting a common script for Kannada and Telugu and said that it would benefit the people of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Mr. Narasimha Rao, who is proficient in several languages, said that as a Minister in Andhra Pradesh and at the Centre he had tried to introduce a common script for the two languages.
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