Ahead of the anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition, the local administration has tightened security in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya, officials said on Tuesday.
"Congress and the BJP are two sides of the same coin. I have written 100 letters to PM Modi but they have not given us a single medical college. It is a waste to vote for the BJP. Voting for Congress is an even bigger waste," said the Bharatiya Rashtra Samithi Chief.
Kamal Nath also said in an interview with an English daily that the former Prime Minister and Congress leader Rajiv Gandhi "got the locks opened" of the temporary Ram temple at the disputed Babri Masjid site in 1986 to allow Hindus to worship on the premises.
Ayodhya Ram Temple chief priest Acharya Satyendra Das and Iqbal Ansari, a former litigant representing the Muslim side in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case on Wednesday 'welcomed' the Uttar Pradesh government's move of convening a Cabinet meeting in the temple city tomorrow.
IMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday reacted to the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) survey at the Gyanvapi mosque complex in Varanasi.
Owaisi said that the hope is that the floodgate for a thousand Babris not be opened.
"When Babri Masjid was demolished, they made a resolution of rebuilding a mosque there. What became of that? A lot of things are said before elections. You can see what happens post-elections...," said Owaisi.
While talking to ANI, Ashish Shelar said, "I want to ask Uddhav Thackeray what was his contribution to the Babri Masjid demolition. The Bharatiya Janata Party believes that the demolition of the Babri structure was a spontaneous reaction of Karsevak Hindus. This was the demand for 500 years
Days after stoking controversy in the State with his remarks that Balasaheb Thackeray and Shiv Sainiks had no role in Babri Masjid demolition on December 6 1992, Maharashtra minister and senior BJP leader Chandrakant Patil on Tuesday said that he will ring up Uddhav Thackeray and clarify
Congress leader Rashid Alvi hit out at the BJP-led Union government over the appointment of Justice (retd.) S Abdul Nazeer as the Andhra Pradesh governor, alleging that the Supreme Court delivered its verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case under pressure from the Centre.
The matter pertains to the comments made by the AIMIM chief, on various news channels on the Supreme Court judgement on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case.
"Muslim women in Ayodhya make garlands of flowers. These garlands are offered to Shri Hanuman ji Maharaj ji sitting in Siddha Peeth Hanuman Garhi temple. Ayodhya was identified with Lord Ram and was known by the name of Ram Janmabhoomi Temple and Babri Masjid. But even today Hindus and Musli
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court dismissed the petition challenging the acquittal of 32 accused including former deputy prime minister LK Advani in the Babri mosque demolition case.