NEW DELHI: The top BJP leadership including Atal Bihari Vajpayee, L K Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi have been severely indicted and called "pseudo-moderates" by a Commission that probed the demolition of Babri Masjid 17 years ago. The Justice M S Liberhan Commission of Inquiry also attacked former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh saying, the destruction of the disputed structure on December 6, 1992 was carried out in a "duplicitous and under-handed manner" which was not worthy of a democratically-elected government. The four-volume report running into over 1000 pages and government's Action Taken Report (ATR) on it were tabled in Parliament by Home Minister P Chidambaram, a day after a leak of the report in a national daily. The Commission, which was set up 10 days after the incident and got 48 extensions, recommended a law providing for exemplary punishment for misuse of religion for acquiring political power and disqualification of political parties and candidates who have religious agenda. It its ATR, government promised that a bill to check communal violence was being contemplated which will include provisions on some these recommendations while the Election Commission would also be moved to look into them. "The Sangh Parivar has spent long years and mobilised its immense media clout to numb the sensibilities of the masses and at the very list to ensure the complete absence of resistance to its designs. "The attempts by the pseudo-moderate elements even within the Parivar were predictably of little significance and were destined to fail, whether by design or otherwise," the Commission said. It held that "as the inner core of the Parivar, the top leadership of the RSS, VHP, Shiv Sena and Bajrang Dal and the BJP bear primary responsibility. Turning to the BJP, it said "the much repeated and much denied remarks attributed to Govindacharya, who called Vajpayee a 'Mukhota' or a mask may be appropriately applied to the BJP's top leadership at the time collectively". It noted that even without leaders like Joshi, Advani and Vajpayee, the RSS might have been able to achieve de facto clout but would not have been able to legitimise its hold on the Indian system by translating that clout into political success. In this backdrop, the BJP was "an essential ingredient" in the Parivar smorgasbord, and essential to capture de jure power and authority, in furtherance of its goals of establishing the Hindu Rashtra. "Be that as it may, the evidence that has been laid before the Commission does not show that the pseudo-moderates were in-charge of the situation, much less capable of changing the course the campaign was taking,"it said.