Chennai, Nov 27 (IANS) AIADMK chief J. Jayalalithaa Thursday alleged that "the strategic leak" of the Liberhan Commission report on the Babri Masjid demolition has sidelined crucial issues like the sugarcane price ordinance, the spectrum scam and other issues. She demanded the resignation of the union home minister.

"In effect, the leakage has diverted the focus of attention of the nation from these current public issues to the 1992 demolition. The only beneficiary of the leakage is the union government, which has moved from the mode of an apprehensive and embarrassed defender to that of a vocal aggressor," Jayalalithaa said in a statement issued here Thursday.

She said: "This makes it a strategic leakage; a deliberately engineered leakage. The only copy of the Liberhan report available with the government was with the union home minister (P. Chidambaram). Obviously, he is fully and solely responsible for the leak. He has to go. He should go."

Jayalalithaa said: "Terming the leak as 'unfortunate', he (Chidambaram) has tried to imply that the leakage has taken place outside the home ministry."

She added that as head of the union finance ministry, "he puffed out his chest and claimed credit for the obviously unnatural rise in the Sensex".

"The growth, he claimed, was the result of his economic policies. But when the crash came, Chidambaram conveniently blamed the market forces for it. It is the same logic with the Liberhan report leak."

The former chief minister of Tamil Nadu also came down heavily on the Liberhan Commission report, saying that it does not offer any solutions on the politicisation of religion.

"Nor is there any action suggested against those held guilty. In short, 17 years and 48 extensions have passed and several crore rupees have been spent for a report that will raise a lot of heat and dust without achieving any tangible results," she said.