Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh was demolished by kar sevaks who stormed the site on Dec 6 1992, in an event that led to riots and communal tension across the country.
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On 29th years of demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, several political parties, organisation and leader today recalled the day and termed it as a black day of the Indian history.
Historic Masjid was demolished by kar sevaks (activists) who stormed the site in an event that led to riots and communal tension across the country. Security has been tightened in Mathura to avoid any untoward incident.
“The demolition of the Babri Masjid in December 1992 was an assault of the right wing forces on the secular principles of the nation. It is a black day in history of independent India. CPI(M) will continue to fight these authoritarian forces and in defence of the constitution”, said CPIM in a statement.
APCC President Dr. @sailajanath Garu recalled the unfortunate attack on the Babri masjid in 1992 and termed it a black day in Indian democracy. Forces that polarize and destroy society must be resisted to protect India’s peace, prosperity and progress.
Marking the 29th anniversary of demolition of Babri Masjid, a group of Muslim women in Hyderabad staged a protest against razing of Mosque and demanded it’s re-building at the same site.
A group of women had gathered at Eidgah Ujale Shah grounds at Saidabad, offered prayers and demanded the re-building of the Babri Masjid at the same site. The protesting women alleged that though there was a planned conspiracy to raze Babri Masjid but the court verdict too was given on the facts.
BJP leader and former Uttar Pradesh governor Ram Naik on Sunday claimed that his party had no clue about the demolition and got to know of it only after the mosque was demolished. “I was the party’s chief whip at that time and on December 6, I was keeping a tab on every development in Ayodhya… We were getting information that party workers and Kar sevaks were reaching Ayodhya… but we were completely clueless that anything of that sort (demolition) was about to happen,” Naik said. “We got the information only after Babri Masjid was razed.”
“The black day… Never forgive, never forget,” Trinamool Congress leader Trinankur Bhattacharjee tweeted.
Three weeks ago, on November 12, while speaking at the launch of Congress leader Salman Khurshid’s book, “Sunrise over Ayodhya — Nationhood in Our Times”, his party colleague P Chidambaram had said, “India will forever be haunted by the conclusion drawn after the Supreme Court’s judgment on the Ayodhya title dispute that no one demolished Babri Masjid, much like no one killed Jessica.”
Meanwhile Mathura has slipped into a security tightrope to avert any kind of untoward incident on the anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition on December 6. The mosque in Ayodhya was razed down on this day in 1992.