measures and other arrangements as prescribed or operated in practice by Government of Uttar Pradesh which might have contributed to the events that took place in the Ram Janma Bhoomi-Babri Masjid complex, Ayodhya town and Faizabad on 6 December 1992; The sequence of events leading to, and all the facts and circumstances relating to, the assault on media persons at Ayodhya on 6 December 1992; and Any other matters related to the subject of Inquiry. Duration and expenses The one-man panel, one of the country's longest running inquiry commissions, cost the government , and wrote the report on the sequence of events leading to the destruction of the Babri mosque by Hindu mobs on 6 December 1992 and the other issues mentioned in the terms of reference. Appointed by former prime minister P.V. Narasimha Rao two weeks after the demolition on 6 December 1992, to ward off criticism against his government for having failed to protect the mosque, the commission in August 2005 finished hearing its last witness Kalyan Singh – who was Uttar Pradesh chief minister at the time of the demolition and resigned soon after. In 16 years of its proceedings, the commission recorded statements of several politicians, bureaucrats and police officials including Kalyan Singh, late Narasimha Rao, former deputy prime minister L.K. Advani and his colleagues Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharati as well as Mulayam Singh Yadav. Top bureaucrats and police officials of Uttar Pradesh, the then district magistrate R.N. Srivastava and Senior Superintendent of Police D.B. Roy of Ayodhya also recorded their statements on the demolition. In all, the Commission examined one hundred witnesses including Mark Tully, BBC Journalist PR Kumaramangalam, Union Minister SB Chavan, Union Home Minister Uma Bharti, BJP leader KS Sudarshan, RSS leader Jyoti Basu, CPI(M) leader, member of the National Integration Council Murli Manohar Joshi, President, Bharatiya Janta Party, member of the Rajya Sabha LK Advani, Leader, Bharatiya Janta Party Vinay Katyar, Member of Parliament, Bharatiya Janta Party Vishnu Hari Dalmia, President, Vishwa Hindu Parishad VP Singh, Former Prime Minister, leader of Janta Dal Kalyan Singh, the then Chief Minister, Uttar Pradesh P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India Tej Shankar, Supreme Court's observer in Ayodhya Arjun Singh, Union Cabinet Minister, Union Human Resource and Development Swami Sachidanand Sakshi, alias Sakshiji Maharaj, BJP Member of Parliament, Acharya of the Nirmal Panchayati Akhara, Haridwar Ashok Singhal, Leader, Vishwa Hindu Parishad Kalraj