NEW DELHI – In India, tens of thousands of Hindus, including monks andright-wing activists, are gathering on the site of Babri Mosque in Ayodhya.
In the past few months, there have been renewed calls to build a temple onthe spot, where a 16th Century Babri mosque was demolished by Hindu mobs in1992.
The call for the construction of a Hindu temple in Ayodhya has grownparticularly loud in the last few months and has mostly come from MPs,ministers and leaders from the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP).
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The reports say that BJP appears to be attempting to galvanise Hindus inUttar Pradesh along religious lines once again ahead of elections. Theparty’s strategy paid off in 2014, when it managed to win 71 of the state’s80 seats.
