NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Wednesday said the Government should expedite the submission of the Babri Masjid Commission of Inquiry report.

"Fourteen years have passed since the demolition and the report should be tabled in Parliament," CPI (M) Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury told a press conference here.

Party MPs Mohammed Salim, Basudeb Acharia and Rupchand Pal were present.

The Commission, under Justice Manmohan Singh Liberhan, was set up in December 1992. It was given several extensions, with the current one due to end this month.

Mr. Yechury criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party for stalling the proceedings of the House.

Mr. Acharia said that on Tuesday at the Speaker's meeting, BJP leader Santosh Gangwar did not indicate that the party would raise the issue of its president Rajnath Singh's detention in Kolkata. But inside the House, the BJP tried to do so.

On Wednesday, the BJP sought to raise the Ram temple issue on the 14th anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition. Mr. Acharia charged the BJP with seeking to raise it keeping in mind the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.

Mr. Yechury said it was time for the people to ask the BJP MPs "whom they were serving."

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