Chennai, October 18
A day after the forced entry of VHP leaders into the make-shift temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee said today that the security arrangements around the complex appeared to be slack and there was a need to further tighten it.

Mr Vajpayee told newspersons here that it appeared that security in the disputed area was slack and said no such “mishaps” should occur.

“It appears that security arrangement was slack. It has to be further tightened,” he said.

He made these comments when asked about yesterday’s incident of entry of VHP activists, including its senior leader Ashok Singhal, in the prohibited sanctum sanctorum of the make-shift temple.

There was no VHP volunteer inside the temple now, he said before leaving for New Delhi after attending BJP President Jana Krishnamurthy’s son’s marriage here. 

Meanwhile, a report from Lucknow said the Uttar Pradesh Government today constituted an inquiry into yesterday’s incidents at Ayodhya in which the VHP activists allegedly stormed the “sanctum sanctorum” of the makeshift Ram Temple there.