My considered view is that even if the Parliament did not nullify the Shah Bano Judgement by legislation inMay, 1986, the doors of Babari Masjid were not unlocked to convert it into a de facto Masndir in February,1986, and the Satanic Versus had not been banned, the Sangh Parivar, in order to propel the BJP intothe political space as a major player would have invented something else and propagated its theory that theCongress and all other national parties were pseudo-secular and were engaged in Operation Appeasement, to havea Muslim vote bank at their command.