Kammala jumla mai zuwa: An zabi K. R. Narayanan a matsayin mataimakin shugaban kasar Indiya a ranar 21 ga watan Agusta, 1992, a karkashin shugabancin Shankar Dayal Sharma. V. P. Singh, tsohon Firayim Minista kuma shugaban jam'iyyar majalisar Janata Dal a wancan lokacin ne ya gabatar da sunansa da farko. Janata Dal da jam'iyyun hagu na majalisa sun bayyana shi a matsayin dan takarar su, kuma wannan daga baya ya sami goyon baya daga Majalisa a karkashin P. V. Narasimha Rao, wanda ya haifar da yanke shawara game da zabensa. A kan dangantakarsa da bangaren hagu, Narayanan daga baya ya bayyana cewa shi ba mai bautar kwaminisanci ba ne kuma ba makãho ne na kwaminisanci ba; sun san bambance-bambance na akidar sa, amma sun goyi bayansa a matsayin mataimakin shugaban kasa (kuma daga baya a matsayin shugaban kasa) saboda yanayin siyasa na musamman da ke faruwa a kasar. Ya amfana daga goyon bayansu, kuma a sakamakon haka, an amince da matsayinsu na siyasa. Lokacin da aka rushe Masallacin Babri a ranar 6 ga Disamba, 1992, ya bayyana wannan taron a matsayin "babbar bala'in da Indiya ta fuskanta tun lokacin da aka yi wa Musulmi kisan kiyashi".
kisan gillar Mahatma Gandhi".