Lucknow: Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma on Tuesday accused Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav of conniving with BJP leader LK Advani to bring down the Babri mosque in Ayodhya.
Congress leader Verma said in Lucknow that after detaining BJP leaders like Advani and Vinay Katiyar at a guest house in Faizabad, Mulayam Singh Yadav, the then chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, had met them discreetly and it was decided that the kar sevaks would be allowed to offer prayers near the disputed structure.
Verma also alleged that the firing on kar sewaks in November 1990 was not required and was part of a larger conspiracy hatched by Mulayam Singh Yadav.
The Congress leader also alleged that the SP had nothing to do with socialism. He also slammed the SP for holding Brahmin conventions and said such moves were aimed at dividing society for narrow political gains....
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03:26 AM, May 15, 2013
As the fight for justice continues, the man who helped bring about the anti-rape law, Justice JS Verma passed away on Monday evening after suffering from a multiple organ failure. He was one of India's most respected jurists and played guide and mentor to the news television media for nearly five years. "Failure of good governance is the reason for the current situation, not lack of legislation." This is what...
12:10 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Ayodhya: The 64-year-old practice of performing rituals at the disputed site in Ayodhya on Ram Navami may face a halt in 2013 as district administration has decided not to allow any religious activity in the area. Only court appointed priest, Acharya Satyender Das, has been allowed to perform religious activities on the 67 acre land, which had been taken over by the Centre. However, for the last 19 years, locals...
11:02 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Patna: Describing senior JD(U) leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's posturing as 'charade,' LJP supremo Ramvilas Paswan on Sunday claimed that Kumar would never sever ties with the BJP for the sake of power in the state. "Nitish will never sever ties with the BJP on Modi issue or any other matter not only in this life, but in the next seven lives," Paswan told reporters. Kumar's posturing on...
03:10 AM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: Raking up the Ram temple issue, BJP leader LK Advani on Saturday asked partymen not to be apologetic for the Ayodhya movement and instead take pride in it. Advani also referred to Samajwadi Party Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's recent words of praise for him, which had surprised many, and said that people should not hesitate to speak the "right thing" as "the world will accept it". "When people...
02:35 AM, Apr 07, 2013
"Justice", the new rallying cry on the streets and in the studios, can be awfully selective at times. The brutal gangrape of a Delhi girl ...
12:16 AM, Apr 05, 2013
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought an explanation from the Centre for the delay in filing appeal against senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani and others in the Babri Masjid demolition case. The apex court also pulled up the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for delay in challenging Allahabad High Court's ruling which upheld the dropping of conspiracy charges against Advani and others in the case. The SC...
12:34 PM, Apr 02, 2013
BJP leader Uma Bharti, who was appointed party vice president on Sunday, said the best way to find a solution to the Ayodhya dispute was through talks. ...
06:12 AM, Apr 01, 2013
The VHP will declare Gujarat a 'Hindu state' by 2015 besides having its presence in all 18,000 villages of the state in the next two years, the outfit's leader Pravin Togadia claimed on Sunday. ...
10:27 PM, Mar 31, 2013
While much work has been done on exploring and exposing communalism in India, relatively little attempt has been made to understand its conjoined twin, secularism. ...
05:54 PM, Feb 13, 2013
The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear the Babri Masjid demolition case after CBI's submission that senior BJP leader LK Advani and others had committed a 'national crime'. The statement had drawn a sharp reaction from the apex court which asked the agency not to use such a language till the case is decided by the courts. ...
08:30 AM, Feb 13, 2013
The RSS has defended the VHP's call for a Ram temple at Ayodhya. RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat made the statement at the Maha Kumbh where the VHP Dharma Sansad is expected to come out with a statement renewing its demand for the construction of a Ram temple at Ayodhya on Thursday. ...
01:10 PM, Feb 07, 2013
From a VHP platform, BJP chief Rajnath Singh on Wednesday raked up the Ayodhya issue saying his party is committed to the construction of the Ram temple. The new BJP president made the declaration moments after former VHP chief Ashok Singhal bragged about the demolition of Babri masjid in the early 1990s during the campaign for construction of Ram temple. ...
09:05 PM, Feb 06, 2013
Samajwadi Party MP Brijbhushan Singh and former Shiv Sena MLA Pawan Pandey today surrendered before a special CBI court. ...
02:03 PM, Dec 22, 2012
Did the Babri Masjid demolition shake the Indian Muslims' faith in the ability of the State to protect the lives and rights of its citizens? Twenty years down, Syed Shahabuddin looks back in an interaction with IBNLive readers. ...
12:58 PM, Dec 07, 2012
The Babri Masjid demolition rocked the Lok Sabha on Thursday with some members demanding action on the report of Liberhan Commission which probed its demolition 20 years ago. ...
12:25 PM, Dec 06, 2012
6 December 1992. Ayodhya burned, while NaRao fiddled (at a puja)(i). Flash forward 20 years. Today, in the heart of Hyderabad, once celebrated ...
11:22 AM, Dec 06, 2012
Faizabad in Uttar Pradesh is a town which saw no communal riot even during the demolition of the Babri Masjid, which happened just a few kilometres away. 20 years after the demolition, CNN-IBN travelled to the neighbourhood of UP's temple town of Ayodhya to find out why peace was shattered there, much like in at least eight other major cities across the state, in 2012. ...
10:27 AM, Dec 06, 2012
A CRPF jawan on duty at the disputed site of Ram Janam Bhoomi-Babri Masjid in Ayodhya committed suicide on Tuesday night, a senior police official said. ...
12:12 AM, Nov 28, 2012
Shiv Sena on Tuesday said the place where Sena supremo Bal Thackeray's last rites were conducted was similar to Ayodhya. "The place where Balasaheb's last rites were conducted at the Shivaji Park is similar to Ayodhya. The sanctity of the place should be maintained. It is like a temple for us and we won't remove the structure that has come up at the cremation site," Raut told reporters here. ...
05:08 PM, Nov 27, 2012
