Lucknow: Dr Rajiv Tyagi of the Tyagi troika -- who are in the spotlight for the AgustaWestland chopper scam -- had once tried to broker truce between Muslim leaders angry over the Babri demolition and the BJP government at the Centre, and even assisted Amitabh Bachchan when the movie legend successfully contested Lok Sabha election from Allahabad in 1984.
Babri activists in the city still remember Tyagi who introduced himself as Atal Bihari Vajpayee's representative in the former prime minister's parliamentary constituency of Lucknow. Tyagi got in touch with quite a few Muslim clerics and leaders who were active on the Ayodhya issue, offering to arrange a meeting with the PM for a negotiated settlement to the Babri Masjid-Ram Janambhoomi tangle.
"Yes, he did approach me twice when Vajpayee was prime minister. He offered me a meeting with the PM, if needed, to work out a solution to the vexed Babri Masjid issue," Zafaryab Jilani, senior high court lawyer and convener of the All India Babri Masjid Action Committee, told TOI on Friday.
16/02/13 Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui/Times of India
