Modi Leads BJP-RSS Political Event at Ayodhya Temple at Site of Illegally Demolished Mosque; 25th Anniversary of Staines Family Murder

Jan 22, 2024

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January 22, 2024

Siddharth Varadarajan

Violence is central to the Hindutva project so it was perhaps fitting that the date chosen for the installation of idols at the Sangh parivar’s new Ram temple in Ayodhya – built at the site where its activists and leaders attacked and demolished the Babri Masjid in 1992 – happens to be the 25th anniversary of the murder of Graham Staines

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