Union minister Prakash Javadekar on Sunday said a “historical blunder” was corrected on December 6, 1992, when a group of Hindu extremists ...
Union minister Prakash Javadekar on Sunday said a “historical blunder” was corrected on December 6, 1992, when a group of Hindu extremists attacked and demolished the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, reported PTI. The event had set off riots across the country that left around 2,000 people dead, most of them Muslims.
“We were sleeping there a night before,” the Bharatiya Janata Party leader recalled at a party event organised to felicitate people who donated money for the construction of the upcoming temple. “The three domes [of Babri Masjid] were visible. Next day the world saw how a historical blunder was removed.”
Javadekar claimed that the Babri Masjid was constructed by officials of Mughal Emperor Babur after demolishing a Hindu temple at the site. “When Babur came to India he chose to destruct Ram temple in Ayodhya as he understood that the living force of the country rested there,” the Union minister claimed. He added that the disputed structure built after the alleged destruction of a temple “was not a mosque because no worship happened there”.
There is no historical evidence that the Babri Masjid was built by demolishing a temple. The Supreme Court, too, in its landmark verdict in November 2019, had rejected the contention that the mosque...
