Babri in a sentence

Over the decades, the Congress attitude towards the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute was never unequivocal.

When Babri incident happened they just ran away,” he said.

Devout Hindus believe Ram, one of the most revered Hindu gods, was born in the town more than 7,000 years ago, but that the Babri mosque was built over his birthplace by a 16th-century Muslim emperor.

Mr Dubey, a "kar sevak" (religious worker), was one of tens of thousands of Hindu men who demolished the 16th Century Babri Masjid in the Indian holy city of Ayodhya on 6 December 1992.

On the same day, November 30, 1858, one Muhammad Asghar, the muadhhin of Babri Masjid, called for judicial proceedings against a Bairagi who had raised a platform in the courtyard.

The Congress has been accused of putting the blame for the demolition of the Babri Masjid on Rao, who was Prime Minister at the time, by his alleged miscalculation of the situation on the ground at the time.

The Supreme Court had delivered its 1,045-page verdict in November 2019 and it was, thus, imperative that the victors clear the debris of Babri Masjid, re-write history as victors always do, and start work.

The visage of a Catholic-born Sonia Gandhi present in Ayodhya on January 22, despite her opposition to Modi and her angst at the unpunished “illegality” committed on December 6, 1992, when the Babri Masjid was brought down, would have left its own mark.

A curative petition was filed in the politically sensitive Ram Janambhoom-Babri Masjid land dispute case on Tuesday challenging the November 9 verdict which cleared the way for construction of a Ram Temple at the disputed site at Ayodhya.

All Babri demolition accused acquitted as act was 'spontaneous'.

Ansari is the son of Mohammad Hashim Ansari, one of the original litigants in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute.

A special CBI court acquitted all 32 accused, including BJP veterans LK Advani, MM Joshi and Uma Bharti, of criminal conspiracy charges around 28 years after Babri Masjid was demolished in Ayodhya.

From all the evidence produced before me, it was clear that the Babri Masjid demolition was meticulously planned… I remember Uma Bharti categorically took responsibility for it.

He said that the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and demolition of the Babri Masjid were the most “treacherous” incidents in the history of independent India.

However, thousands of victims of the post-Babri riots and their families would beg to differ with him.

Incidentally, Bhat and three others were recently booked by the Karnataka police for making students of a Mangaluru school re-enact the demolition of the Babri Masjid as part of its Sports Day programme.

In return, India was handing over Muslim holy sites, like the Babri Mosque, for Hindu extremists to tear down and, more egregiously, excluding Muslims as citizens under Indian law.

Iqbal Ansari, one of the litigants in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute, has been invited for the August 5 event.

It then takes us back to 1992 when the riots after the Babri Masjid demolition created unrest in the country.

Modi’s anti-anti Muslim chauvinism took a dangerous turn on August 5, this year when he laid the foundation stone for the Hindu Ram temple at bhoomi pujan ceremony at the site of the 16th-century Babri Mosque in Ayodhya.